Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Yellow Wings

Thanks for sticking with me! I've made it home from my vacation, and a wonderful one at that! In our flurry of complications before we left,  I had to leave all my crafty things behind-yikes!


I'm here to show you a card that I made this morning for the Skipping Stones Design Sketch Challenge, a lovely sketch created by Angi Barrs, our sketch artist for the month of March!

I used the beautiful butterfly and barely there sentiment from Healing Wings, as well as a soon to be released set! My photo doesn't show, but the butterfly has a light touch of clear glitter on the wings. My color choices came from the amazing palette over at CR84FN.



This month at Skipping Stones Design, we are also welcoming two amazing guest designers, A.J. Otto and  Amy Tsuruta.  And to make things even better, Skipping Stones Design has two new design team members, Lindsay Amrhein and Pamela Young! Skipping Stones Design has also teamed up with month with Scor-Pal for the entire month! For all the challenge rules and details, as well as inspiration from the design team, please stop over at the Skipping Stones Design blog!

41 comments:

Laurel said...

Beautiful!

annieambriel said...

This is gorgeous.. those stamps are beautiful :)

Kelly said...

This yellow is really powerful and gives a strong impact. LOVE it and the woody background!

~amy~ said...

Simply gorgeous...love how you combined the challenges...excited to be working with you this month:)

Lisa said...

Love the way you've perched this sweet butterfly on your pretty card Karen! Glad you had a nice vacation ��

Erin (Homemade Cards by Erin) said...

Stunning butterfly... love the extra texture you've added to the background and die cut...

Jingle said...

Karen, this is absolutely beautiful!

Annette said...

WOW WEE...this is gorgeous...

Chunyuan said...

That yellow is gorgeous. Love the woodgrain background too.

Christina said...

Glad you enjoyed your vacation and made it home safely! This card is such a ray of sunshine with the bright yellow. The woodgrain background is stunning!

Isabelle P. said...

Ta carte est fabuleuse Karen !

Aimes said...

Love this bold yellow - so cheerful!
Glad you had a fabby vacation!
Hugs,
Aimes
x

Jennifer Rzasa said...

This is so beautiful! I love the bright yellow woodgrain.

Lisa's Creative Niche said...

WOW!!! This yellow is awesome!!! And that butterfly is perfect!

Jay Gee said...

Just beautiful Karen and I love that shade of yellow :)

Marlena M. said...

AMAZING color and pop, Karen!

Julie E said...

So pretty! I don't think I have ever seen that color used better!!!

Trinh said...

Wow, the colors on this card just glow! And I love that you chose yellow for the woodgrain & butterfly.

Emily Keaton said...

Karen, your card is absolutely stunning!! The yellows just jump right of the card. And that woodgrain background is amazing--so real. Beautiful!

Lynn said...

I hope you had a wonderful time with your nephew...did you get lots of cuddle time with him? I'm sure it was nice to come home, but so hard to leave.

Your card is gorgeous...I love the bold yellow!

BabyBokChoy said...

That yellow is just outstandingly gorgeous!!! Glad you are home from your vacay :)

Wendy said...

This is a beautiful card for having to make it in a crafty hurry!! It is beautiful!! I love it and I am glad you had a good vacation!! I hope you're well and I would love to catch up when you have time!!

Heather Innusa said...

This is wonderful! How do you do it? Every card so very wonderful!!!

Mona L. Pendleton said...

Sweet card Karen! That butterfly is so pretty! Thanks for joining along with CR84FN :)

Rose said...

beautiful!!! so glad you had a great vacation :)

yyam said...

Wow! This is just stunning Karen! Love the amazing stamping and that bold yellow!

F.T said...

The yellow color is so beautiful. it give me the news of spring.

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Jen W. said...

Welcome back, Miss Karen! Glad you had a good vacay! :) Love the yellow, grey and kraft combo here!

Cheryl said...

Gorgeous! I love your use of color!

I hope you got a chance to enjoy our wonderful weather yesterday. Tuesdays is the one day I get off work earlier so I was able to get out and enjoy it a bit while doing errands.

Have a great rest of the week!

Emily Leiphart said...

I love this card! Those colours are really gorgeous.

Monika/Buzsy said...

Gorgeous card Karen. That yellow is so pretty and the butterfly is lovely!

snehal watwe welde said...

I am glad that you enjoyed your vacation.Coming to the card .it is beautiful.I love your take on the sketchand your colour choices are awesome

alexandra s.m. said...

so striking!
so beutiful!!

TFS~

Alice Wertz said...

love how you used these colors. beautiful card, Karen!

lostinpaper said...

This is sooo beautiful! I'm seeing 'yellow' everywhere at the moment and I just love it!

Jess said...

Love that gorgeous yellow, the texture of the background and that beauuudiful butterfly! Amazing!

Be(e) said...

I hope you had a great time! Fabulous card!! love the colors!

Jenny said...

Wow...just look at those colours working together beautifully! Love how the butterfly is perched, looks like it could fly away any moment :0)
Welcome back from your vacation, trust you had a great time with your family :0)
Jenny x

AJ said...

gorgeous card Karen!! love it!

Lisa Arana said...

stunning karen... i am so loving yellow lately and the pop of the butterfly wings is just beautiful.

Katie Gehring said...

This is truly stunning! Love!