tiddly inks party puzzler blog hop

Hi everyone! I hope everyone enjoyed Mother's Day. I certainly did. My 7 year old wrote a beautiful song for me & drew me some lovely pictures. My sweet husband gave me flowers & a day of not doing anything. We went out to brunch & to dinner. What a great day!!!

Afterwards, I began working on my card for the hop. I found inspiration from an activity that my daughter & I have been doing the past month. We got some catepillars and a cocoon from my friend's shop in Michigan. We watched the catepillars change into butterflies & watched the Luna moth emerge from her cocoon. And on Saturday we set them free. As fun as it was, my dear girlie is so sad that they are gone. She is hoping that they will come and visit. But I told her that they have jobs to do & hopefully their friends will visit.

A little closer look,

I used Flutter By and Bloom Little Lilly for my images. And I also added a couple of images from http://www.makeitcrafty.com.au/ for the tree & the grassy meadow. The artist Zoe makes wonderful images. To color the images I used my Copics and added Stickles and some chalk to bring in some depth. The background on the cover is done with Twinkling H2O's. Then I added some washi tape that I got from the Greeting Farm. I changed them up by coloring them a bit with my Copics. Next I added some buttons that I colored with Copics & added some embroidery floss that I colored with my Copics. The butterflies were done with Liquid Pearls & Stickles. Finally to make the window I used a nestie.

In this card, I have Lili peeking in on how the butterflies are doing because she was the one who painted their wings. After I colored her and added Stickles, I covered this image with Glossy Accents.

Here is the inside

Again the tree is from Make It Crafty. & I used butterflies from Fairy Fae Paper.  The sentiment is made through Microsoft Word and inked up with some chalk ink. I know that I have been making a lot of butterfly cards. This will be the last for a while...I think. But I sure am getting use out of Fairy Fae Paper, a good investment for me :  )

Hope that everyone is enjoying the hop. I was looking forward to this since I heard about it.  And in the spirit of blog hopping, I thought that I could give a prize. I am always thrilled to have more followers & thought that I will give a $10 gift certificate to Tiddly Inks to one of my followers. But if my following goes up to 50, then I will give a $15 gift certificate. If it goes up to 75 followers, I'll give a $20 gift certificate. If it gets up to 100 then I'll give a $25 gift certificate. I will draw the winner at the end of the blog hop. How does that sound? So become a follower & leave a comment letting me know what you think about my card. It is always wonderful to have blogger friends : )

Thanks for stopping by!