Friday 1 January 2016

Happy Little Stampers - January CASE the Designer Challenge

Happy New Year everybody!!!!! Talk about starting the year on a high note, I'm part of the Design Team for a new challenge at Happy Little Stampers!!!


Its so exciting and thank you so much Kylie for inviting me to join my fellow team members to bring you a new challenge each month!

For the Happy Little Stampers - CASE the Designer Challenge, each month one of the Design Team will create a card. You can then make your own after being inspired by maybe the colours, the technique, the layout etc. Its totally up to you!! And just incase your wondering what CASE means, it stands for 'Copy And Share Everything', so your more than welcome to copy the card itself if you would like!!

And even more fabulous news is that the winner of this challenge will receive a Happy Little Stampers stamp set of their choice. How cool is that!!!

For our first ever challenge this month, our CASE Designer is the incredible Kylie Purtell and this is her gorgeous card:


I love the simplicity of her design and the colours are so amazing against the white of the card base. I decided to go with a similar colour palette and bring more butterflies into my card:


To start I die-cut the white frame (from Pretty Pink Posh) twice from white CS and glued them together. I then worked out where they would sit and masked off the rest of the card. Using one of the butterfly stamps from Happy Little Stampers 'Butterfly Birthday', I used pink, orange and yellow ink colours to stamp across my card front. After removing the masking tape, I stamped the sentiment in black (from the same stamp set) and adhered the frame in place. Clean and pretty!

I'm going to link this to the Seize the Birthday Challenge where they have their 'Anything Goes' theme:


You have all month to enter the Happy Little Stampers - CASE the Designer Challenge as it finishes January 31st, so it gives you plenty of time to get back from your holidays, unpack, do all your washing and then sit down and create! The rest of the Design Team have some stunning cards to inspire you on the blog, if you need help in the 'ideas' department. I can't wait to see what you all come up with!!

Take care
Shona
 

18 comments:

  1. So beautiful Shona...love your sweet butterflies, they look amazing in these pretty colors. Wishing you a very Happy New Year!

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  2. Congrats on your DT assignment. you sure popped out an amazing card for the 1st one in 2016. (I'm typing the year a lot so far to help me get used to writing it.) Anyways love the colors & the butterflies. That frame and masking make for a terrfic clean and fresh card. Kudos!

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  3. Congratulations Shona! It is indeed a great way to start the year. What a lovely card - that's a fabulous butterfly stamp and I like the way they fly through the frame.

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  4. Love the simplicity and subtle color of this card Shona. Just gorgeous.

    Wishing you and very Happy New Year with Hugs and Blessings,
    Jim

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  5. Love your framed butterflies, what a great take on the inspiration card! ps Happy New Year!

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  6. I love how you used the butterfly in the different colours. So pretty, Shona. Welcome to the team! xx

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  7. Congratulations, Shona! How pretty are those fluttering butterflies ... they put me in mind of a warm spring day ... lovely! Happy New Year to you, my friend! Hugs, Anita :)

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  8. Love this stylish and elegant design Shona - so pretty!
    Hugs
    Carol x

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  9. Beautiful CASE Shona...love those crisply stamped butterflies.

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  10. Love your card! It looks so stylish! Hugs Åsa

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  11. Hello Shona!
    Your card are simply gorgeous!
    I love clean and simple style.
    Have a wonderful day and Happy New Year!

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  12. Happy new year Shona! I love your CAS design and CASE of Kylie's card. It's so lovely and delicate!

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  13. Beautiful card. Love the layout and the pretty butterflies. Thanks so much for playing along with us at Seize the Birthday.

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  14. Congratulations on the DT appointment, Shona! Kylie must be super thrilled to have you! As far as this card, the only thing I have to say is: MWAH!! Hugs, Darnell

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  15. HAPPY NEW YEAR, wonderful Shona! May 2016 see allll your wishes, and more, come true! Only the best for you, sweet friend! Congratulations on the DT role; how fortunate Kylie is to have you aboard! As for us: well, win, win, win! More of your creativity to dazzle and delight, which is precisely what our gorgeous butterfly card does! LOVE it...big LOVE!
    Hugs`c

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  16. Lovely CASE, Shona. Beautifully CAS.

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  17. Love the way you framed in those beautiful butterflies. Super card! Thanks for sharing your talents with us at Seize the Birthday and Happy New Year too!

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  18. This butterfly card is incredible. I love how clean it is. Nice job!!! Xo, Stephanie

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