Friday, April 6, 2012

Friday Post

Good morning!  Today I would like to share with you a card I made using an Itty Bitty I recently won.  It is from Unity, for Webster Pages, and it is called Relax, Renew, Restore.  Since today is Friday, it is time for the Friends with Flair hop, over on the Unity Blog.


I started with Bazzill card stock .  The green is a pearlized one and it is so pretty.  The green check dp is a scrap, but the purple is from Basic Grey's Indie Bloom.  I used Marvy Markers to ink my stamps, and stamped directly onto my designer paper.  I used a Fantastix applicator and rubbed some of the marker ink onto the leaves to make them more pronounced.  I punched a couple of MS butterflies out of the same dp, only attached the bodies and bent the wings upward.  Green gems were used for the bodies.

I really liked the washed out, watercolor effect that I achieved. Please be sure to visit the Unity Blog for the line up of talented designers who linked up today. Thanks for stopping by, and I hope that your holiday weekend is full of family, friends, and food, from beginning to end.

35 comments:

  1. Mary Anne, this looks gorgeous! Love how you did the stamping and the butterflies are sweet.

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  2. Mary Anne,
    What a beautiful image you won! Congrats on the win and this is a beautiful card as well. Love the stamping on dp.

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  3. LOVE this! I love purple first of all, and so cool how you stamped on pp!

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  4. love your lilacs! just gorgeous!

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  5. That is really lovely, the colors are great, and I love the subtle effect. Barb

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  6. Stunning! I love a good use of purple!

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  7. This is lovely! Beautiful colors!!!

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  8. This is beautiful! Love the pretty lilacs!

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  9. Gorgeous card. Thanks for sharing how you made it.

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  10. Gorgeous lilacs. Wonderful added touches on the leaves and great butterflies.
    Happy to hop over from FWF!
    :O)
    Jessica

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  11. This is beautiful. Love the colors you used and the butterflies are so very pretty.

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  12. Gorgeous lilacs.... I LOVE that purples and the dp.

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  13. Beautiful, my friend, just beautiful!

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  14. Beautiful card Mary Anne! I can smell the lilac!

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  15. Beautiful,love the water color look and with the paper, just so lovely. Have a wonderful weekend.

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  16. The card is stunning and it's in my favorite colors!!

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  17. such a beautiful springtime card!

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  18. Gorgeous colors, gorgeous stamping! Awesome!!
    Happy Easter my friend :)

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  19. So beautiful. I love all the work you did.

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  20. Great colours. Really pretty!

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  21. What a beautiful card! Love the colors, so springlike...

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  22. This is a jaw dropper! Simply beautiful! Have a Happy Easter my friend!

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  23. Lilacs are a fav! Love how they look like watercolored...beautiful!

    Have a blessed Easter dear friend ....

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  24. This is gorgeous. I also loved that washed out effect you achieved with your flowers.

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  25. This is so pretty! I love the purple and green!

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  26. Just gorgeous, I too love the watercolor effect and that color combo, so beautiful.

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  27. Very pretty and great card for this time of year, the lilacs are about to bloom here!

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  28. This is so pretty..great colors.

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  29. WOW! I LOVE what you have done with that stamp!!! Been trying to decide if I "need" that stamp for awhile now........just might have to do it!

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  30. Mary Ann, this is stunning! Love how you stamped the flowers on the DP and the green and purple tones are beautiful.

    Hugs
    Sue

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