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Flowers and Butterflies and Cake, Oh My!

Aloha, all!

Next week is granddaughter, Kiara's, birthday. Now she's just a little girl, and I usually try to make "cute" cards for the young kids. But today, with the beautiful Hawaii sunshine and the garden just loving the recent rains, my inspiration ran more into flowers and butterflies than to bears and monkeys.

So flowers and butterflies it is! The flowers are those beautiful orchid and white flowers on the sheet of Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper. The printed paper with the small dots is also from the Cottage Wall pack of paper. I love every single piece of paper in this set! The butterflies are all punched with the Stampin' Up! Exclusive Sizzix Embosslit, Beautiful Wings. There are 5 butterflies in this one little die, and they are gorgeous. There's a front and a back to each punched and embossed design and I think that both sides of each butterfly are equally lovely. So basically you get 10 designs from this one die! Great deal for sure. (QUICK NOTE! The picture of the die in the Occasions Mini Catalog shows only 4 butterflies. But the actual die that you'll get will have 5 butterflies.)

The cake with the "Happy Birthday" greeting looks just like a single stamp, doesn't it? But it's not! It's two separate stamps, but I stamped them both at one time. Both are part of a set of stamps that don't get mounted on wood, but cling to clear acrylic blocks. This is a great new Stampin' Up! stamp set design feature that combines the fabulous rubber stamp with the see-through features of a clear acrylic block. Both of these stamps are from the set, Happy Moments that is part of this year's Sale-A-Bration offering of FREE STAMP SETS!! Of course, you can still purchase any stamp set from Stampin' Up! mounted on wood blocks, too. Lots of stampers really like that kind of stamp, and Stampin' Up! will keep all of you happy, too! I, however, am so ready to get rid of all that wood that's taking up so much space in my craft room! Bring on the clear mounts!!!!

The colors in this design are Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Orchid Opulence and Whisper White. Great combination!