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Bold & Beautiful Thank You Card
by Jenny Griffiths

Good Morning Crafty Friends,

 Welcome to Day Four of the Memory Box Spring Blog Blitz!  Our team has shared some awesome cards and there's more to come!  Be sure to check in each day for your daily dose of inspiration.  

Today's card features the Silver Springs Butterfly and the Thank You Tiles dies.  I've watercolored the butterflies in vibrant colors so if you need a morning wake up, this should do it!  Wow, the colors really popped on the black background, don't you think?  

Starting off,  I die cut the Sterling Springs Butterfly die from white card stock and watercolored both butterflies with my Kuretake paints.  You can use any form of watercolors you wish…Peerless, tube, cake, crayon or pencil colors.  I was careful to outline the butterfly wings, where they attach to the vertical border, with my watercolor brush to clearly define the wing shape. I also added the butterfly bodies from another die set, #99098 Leavenworth Butterfly Trio.

The Thank You Tiles are really fun to work with as you get both the positive and negative letters—so I used them both!  A T-ruler helped to align the letters vertically and horizontally.  The letters really stand out because of the black card base peeking through.   

 

Both of the dies featured today are "must haves" but if you would like a chance to win the Silver Springs Butterfly Die, leave a comment on this post by Sunday, April 17th at 11:59 pm EST for your chance to win. Prize winners will be announced on the Outside the Box blog on Monday, April 18th.  Crossing my fingers for you!

Thanks for stopping by, be sure to join in the fun everyday for more of the new release!

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68 Comments

  2. Just gorgeous and yes I can never enough butterfly dies..thanks for the chance to win x

  3. Love how you have made the butterflies stand out from the rest of the die. Brilliant!

  4. Who doesn’t like butterflies. Love the card. thanks for sharing your card idea!

  7. Love the Silver Springs Butterfly Die, so striking against the black background.

  9. Love the contrast of the dark background with the brightly colored butterflies. Very nice card.

  10. These colours definately pop, Jenny 🙂
    Love those ‘thank you’ tiles. They work perfectly on this design.

  16. I love checking out this blog and love your card too. I only recently found the world of die cutting and am so loving all the inspiration and different ways you show to use dies. I am eagerly awaiting a new supply to my local stockist and love the challenge of choosing which dies I can get for my money, I love the versatility you show and look forward to getting more dies though my bank balance isn’t too happy about it. Would love to win any die especially if its not one I have already managed to buy. Thanks for the chance.

  18. Beautiful card, love how the colors pop on the black background. Love both of these dies.

  19. The thank you tiles are great with the positive and negative cuts. Of course the butterflies are spectacular! Who would have ever thought of using a black background!

  21. Gorgeous colors against that black background! Beautiful card! Love the butterfly die!

  24. Your black background really makes the butterflies and the wording pop !! Thanks for the inspiration !

  25. Gorgeous card! Love the contasting colors. The bright butterflies really pop against the black.

  28. You are right a very bold card but I like it. And that die is beautiful. I can see many uses for it.

  31. The water colored butterflies look stunning against that black background. Well done!

  34. Great! I love how the colourful butterflies are popping out of the black card <3

  35. WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE your Card!! Such a BEAUTIFUL Design as the Colors REALLY POP!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)

  45. Butterfly die is really nice with the strip behind them. Takes a firm hand to color the butterflies and not the rest! Very distinctive on black!

  49. Coloring only the butterflies on the die made me think it was 2 separate dies at first. How pretty.

  53. This is a beautiful card, Sherry! I particularly like the color scheme and the white blossoms in the background. Thank you for the inspiration!

  54. This is a beautiful card, Jenny! I particularly like the colors you used, the clever tiles and the white blossoms in the background. Thank you for the inspiration!

  55. Wow!! The colors just pop against that black background. What a beautiful card design!

  56. I like the way the butterflies can be cut out from the border or used all in one. What a bold and colorful card!

  57. The colours certainly pop on that background. The butterflies are lovely and I really like the tile thank you too.

  58. butterflies and flowers, one can never have enough. This butterfly-die is fabulous! Love how you’me made your card black & white with the lovely coloured butterflies!
    nancy

  63. What a beautiful card with all those colors and butterflies. This really stands out!

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