With the gray and dreary weather we have been experiencing here in southeast Iowa, today’s card is a day brightener. What could be cheerier than a beautiful butterfly! It’s Sunday and time to play with The Paper Players!

This week, sweet LeAnne has a wonderful color challenge for us: Summer Splash, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo. As you can see from the fabulous inspiration the Design Team has provided, there are so many ways to use these colors. I can’t wait to see what YOU create!

The Stampin’ Schach Design Tips
In determining how to incorporate LeAnne’s challenge colors, I used the 60 – 30 – 10 rule of design: the dominant color should take up 60% of the design, the secondary color should take up 30%, and an accent color should take up 10% of the design. Keeping this in mind, I decided on Summer Splash as my main color. I used a pattern from the Unbound Beauty designer series paper collection to form the background panel. Isn’t this a great subtle pattern?

Daffodil Delight become my secondary color, and the intricate butterfly wings were die cut from Beautiful Bokeh paper using the Beautiful Butterflies dies, which are part of the Beautiful Butterflies Hybrid Embossing Folder. (Note: It may be a little confusing, but a hybrid embossing folder contains both the embossing folder AND the dies.)

Flirty Flamingo worked great as my accent color. I used Flirty Flamingo cardstock to create the scalloped frame. (The Stitched So Sweetly dies are retired, but as their name implies they are very sweet…and sometimes I just have to get them out and show them some love.) The paper used to create the butterfly’s body is a pattern from the Brights 6″ x 6″ collection. To finish things off, I stamped the sentiment in Flirty Flamingo and added three Flirty Flamingo Rainbow Dots. The Starstruck embossing folder, a Sale-A-Bration freebie, adds such lovely texture!

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