STAMPlorations blog hop - Thanks

Hi and welcome to a post to let you know that over at STAMPlorations Shery has organised a mini blog hop to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Living in England I don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but that doesn't matter, we all need to be thankful on occasions and I usually make a raft of Thank You cards for my daughter to give to her TA's at school. This is one card that will find it's way into the stash!

While I was tiding up the other day, yes don't faint, I came across the very thing that sparked off this card. It was a silver 'thanks' that a friend cut for me a long time ago using her Cricut, one day when  we got together for a bit of crafting and gossip!

To start I took a white base card and stamped 3 butterflies from my Trendy Butterflies set then embossed with white EP. I then sprinkled some turquoise Brusho over the area around the butterflies then spritzed it with water. Although it doesn't show in the picture there is a shimmer to the background made by adding a small amount of Inka Gold wax in platinum and steel blue to a spray bottle then adding water and shaking to dissolve the wax or rather to allow it to become suspended in the liquid. I don't think the mix was 100% right as it did blob when I sprayed but I quite liked the effect. The Cricut thanks was then glued over the panel below the butterflies. I was thinking of the layout at CAS(e) this Sketch but just realised I switched the sketch around!

OK now down to business.

To win a 4 x 6 stamp of your choice, visit and leave a comment on all of the DTs blog posts and the main STAMPlorations site before Friday November 27th at 11.55 PST. Simples.
The winner will be announced on Sunday 29th November. 
Enjoy the hop!

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