Well, today is like the umpteenth day of down pouring rain here! BLAH!
It is VERY depressing and unmotivating! I guess I could NEVER live in Seattle! LOL! I NEED sun! It hasn’t even felt close to SPRING, let alone summer!
Right now my kids are playing Rock Band in the other room! The Disney soundtrack one! I’m cracking up listening to them do Karaoke! With the 3 of them we do have a little “band” Noah on guitar, Alexa on drums and Amber singing! LOL! They crack me up when they play all of it together. Noah is REALLY good at Guitar Hero and on the drums. Alexa prefers to dance and sing all over, and Amber ALWAYS hogs the microphone!
Its great rainy day play! I better HURRY so I get some stamp time in while the gettin is good! LOL!
HOPEFULLY these cards today will brighten your day (and mine!) I feel like I should be working with tons of GRAY!
Anyway, today’s peeks are from All That Scraps-C.C. Designs.
The release will be Monday July 6th
This set is AmyR Butterflies
You know me and my butterflies…………
I have to say I LOVE this card 😀
There is a lot if dimension, and I love the “fluttering around” effect/feel I think this has.
Sentiment reads: What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
I obviously was inspired by the Monarch Butterfly for this card!
I stamped them in Black Brilliance ink, onto Lemon tart, then colored in with my Copic markers. I added a bit of Shimmerz to them when I was done. I like stamping and coloring on a COLORED base. A great look as oppose to always stamping on WHITE ir IVORY! I’ll have to do that more often!
I also used Papertrey Ink:Cardstock, Friends til the End patterned paper, and Borders & Corners circle set for this. I wanted a subtle colored bkgd paper, and it was pretty perfect.
Now for another one….
I think this is the perfect card of encouragement, or sympathy.
I stamped my butterfly on vellum cardstock, then embossed it with white EP. I dry embossed the open lines, then colored with my Fantastix stix and Versamagic ink, for a RICH look. I thne cut it out, and adhered it to my card with a dimensional.
I love the softness it has.
The patterned paper is STUNNING! It is Basic Grey–>Rochelle I used a tall nestability rectangle to make my panels.
I used the nestabilities tags on both my cards today. I LOVE them!
Anyone who knows me, knows this is by far my FAVORITE sentiment ever! I use it all the time. It reminds ME that life is too short, and should be about living every MOMENT to the fullest. I never put the good things off till tomorrow. Life is about the QUALITY , not the quantity. You could live to be 100 and not have had a full life. You also never know what tomorrow brings, so take it all in today. No regrets!
So that is my share of peeks for today
Check out the —> ATS BLOG <— daily for more peeks and a chance to WIN! Each set that is peeked along the way!
Tomorrow I will have even more to share!
Thanks for stopping by. I would love to hear your favorite sentiment, if you have one 😀
Till tomorrow…………..
37 Responses for "ATS: AmyR Butterflies Peek"
BEAUTIFUL Lauren!! I love the first sentiment you used… good luck with the kids…sorry about the rain…we’ve had a lot too — though this week we were fairly lucky…it’s been cloudy, maybe some sun until about 4, then it rains and rains and rains…
Beautiful cards, Lauren! I think my favorite sentiment is:
Live, Laugh, Love.
These are all so beautiful 🙂
Its raining here too – but it is winter in Australia 😉
Have a lovely day 🙂
Oh your cards are BEAUTIFUL Lauren… you may want to live in Seattle we are gonna hit the high 80s the next couple days! 🙂 Hope your rain leaves soon!!
Ok I should add they SAY were gonna be that hot! LOL!!
Have a WONDERFUL holiday weekend!
Very beautiful cards. The pink one is absolutely stunning!
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Here in the Seattle area we have had so many gorgeous sunny warm days that I am having to water my flower pots twice a day! The butterflies are beautiful.
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Beautiful cards, Lauren! I especially like the Monarch one and have got to try that technique with the Borders and Corners circles and popping up circle punched images. Love it!
Beautiful cards Lauren! I love both the quotes. True, I often have to remind myself to stamp on colors other than white or cream! Our weather has not been good either. We had about a week of what we could maybe call summer weather and now the joke is: summer? Oh yeah, that was last week, you missed it! LOL- here’s hoping things improve in the weather department!
Shanna
As always you made beautiful cards. We’ve had the most incredible weather lately in Seattle. Except for a couple of cloudy days and a tad bit of drizzle, we’ve had sun every day since the end of May. It’s 80 today.
Beautiful….. absolutely, positively beautiful!
We’ve had our fair share of rain lately too – and the chillier weather to boot. Yuck.
The weekend is suppose to be nice, so I’m looking forward to a fun, busy and *warm* weekend!
Talk to you later~
Hugs and love!
My favorite quote is “A set back is a setup for comeback”
Beautiful cards…love the colors and I think I may have just fallen in love with Butterflies.
A favourite quote of mine is: “Life is not measured by its length, instead by its depth”.
Both of these are beautiful Lauren, but the first one really captivates me. I love the layout and the colors. I hope you get the sunny skies you want soon. I love the rain and our yards are starting to look a little dried out so send yours here!
absolutely love those butterfly cards, they are stunning
Simply STUNNING cards Lauren! Enjoy those kiddos!
Your work is beautiful and your ideas awesome. Thank for sharing them with us. You have a lovely family and I was so touched to read your story about Alexa.
Being a mother of a special needs child (now a grown up wonderful young lady) I could relate to so much of what you wrote. I left hospital with a baby and a “don’t expect too much” greeting back then – but TG mothers know better than to give up. All the best for you and your family I will come back for sure.
I just love both of your butterfly card but am wondering how you created such perfect black dots and lines around your circles in your first card. Thanks for continuing to be an inspiration.
Debbie
Both are absolutely gorgeous.
Hi Lauren – Just so you know….in Seattle today it will be 85 degrees and in the low to mid 80’s the rest of the weekend 🙂
Both of these are stunning cards. I love the softness and especially what you did with the circles on the first one.
Hi Lauren..
Your Butterfly Cards are Gorgeous!!
I agree….Enough Rain…Bring on the SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a Nice day 🙂
Lauren, love your butterfly cards…Yep, butterflies are a favorite of mine too!! Laughing about your “rain in Seattle” comment…Talking to family and friends that live in that area it has been uncommonly sunny and beautiful since the end of May! Go figure!
Great butterfly card! Love how you embossed it in white on the vellum. As for rain out in Seattle, well, we are up the coast from them in Vancouver, BC and believe it or not, we have had 6 weeks of sunshine!! Upside when it rains is it never goes brown here — always beautifully lush and green. Love it! As for a favorite sentiment, I just love the saying “You have touched me. I have grown”.
Beautiful! I usually tell you how cute and creative your stuff is, but today’s butterflies are B-E-A-utiful!
Oh Lauren! Both card are beautiful, but I LOVE the pink card!
Oh Lauren, I love these cards. They are both fabulous.
Wonderful cards. The butterfly card with the white embossing is so gorgeous!
The pink betterfly card is easily my favourite card of yours, evah!! Where did you get the rose in the center of the green ribbon??
These are both gorgeous! Each so different using the same stamp!
My fav quote is from a Rolling Stones song: “Til the next time that we say goodbye, I’ll be thinking of you”. I used it as my senior quote in high school under my yearbook picture and it has stuck with me for years. I think it’s a nice way to NOT say goodbye and let someone know you are always thinking of them.
Just beautiful Lauren – I love everything you do and begin to feel tongue tied with trying to come up with new adjectives to describe your work. SO I’ll stick with I LOVE IT!
Lovely butterfly cards, since my fav colors and pink and green I will have to say the second is my fav!
Both of your butterfly cards are B-E-A-UUUU-TIFUL! Your monarchs blow me away though! I have a monarch tattoo on my shoulder that is my favorite, so this set will be a must have for me to try to recreate this beauty!
Absolutely beautiful! Stunning, really.
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