DOstamperSTARS Challenge #185: New Blooms & Wishes

It's time for another DOstamperSTARS Thursday Challenge.  This week we're having a "Home Sweet Home" challenge. 

Ah, butterflies…always a great inspiration!  I'm doing a card at my next Stamp-a-Stack class featuring the Work of Art and Basic Butterflies thinlits (June 28th).  So I thought, I may as well get my sample ready for that and knock to things off my to do list.

Butterfly Card Details:

• Stamp image from Work of Art on a 4" x 5-1/4" panel of Whisper White.
  • Use new In Colors, Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo and Sweet Sugarplum.  
• Die cut butterfly (Butterflies Thinlits) from center of stamped images
• Stamp greeting (new Blooms & Wishes) with Memento Tuxedo Black ink

At this point, the stamping should have been done.  But…when I stamped the greeting, I must have caught the edge just a little bit and a small black dot was stamped too.  Drats!  As I was short of time, I decided I needed a way to cover it up (rather than start all over).  So I continued stamping, incorporating it into the center of some flowers…clever, huh?

• stamp additional images from Blooms & Wishes stamp set
  • daisy = Peekabook Peach
  • leaves = Flirty Flamingo
  • use Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker to add centers to the rest of the flower (ha…now they all look the same!)
• Staple Whisper White Bakers Twine to panel and tie in a bow.
• Adhere stamped panel to 4-1/4" x 11" folded Thick Whisper White cardstock
• Adhere die cut butterfly in the cut out space with Stampin' Dimensionals (just in the center of the butterfly)
• Attach Basic Jewel
• Enjoy!

Not exactly what I had imagined, but it's definitely bright and cheery, don't you think?   

Enjoy~Dawn O 

Be sure to check out more "Home Sweet Home" inspiration from my DOstamperSTARS Team (click on their names below):  

• Connie Plaumann
• Sharon Bennett
• Jan Carlson
• Cathy Peck
• Joan Weidling
• Dawn Olchefske - you are here
• Judy Strickling 
• Debbie Sollinger   
• Michelle Harrington
• Angela O'Neill 

Dawn's Stamping Supplies (click on products to shop online)

Blooms & Wishes Photopolymer Stamps [141784]	Work Of Art Wood-Mount Stamp Set [134111]	Work Of Art Clear-Mount Stamp Set [134114]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272]	Peekaboo Peach Classic Stampin' Pad [141398]
Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [141397]	Sweet Sugarplum Classic Stampin' Pad [141395]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker [100082]	Handheld Stapler [139083]
Twine Baker's Whisper White [124262]	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments [119247]	Big Shot [143263]	Precision Base Plate [139684]	Butterflies Thinlits Dies [137360]
Big Shot Die Brush [140603]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]