Stampin' Up! Butterfly Brilliance Birthday Card

Hi and welcome to another round of the colour creations blog hop. 
For this weeks blog hop, we are focusing on the colour, Basic Gray
If you remember, from previous years I like to work with the color coach Stampin' Up! provides to add a challenge to my card creations.


This week, I have chosen Basic Gray, balmy blue and mango melody from the colour coach to work with. 

Using the fabulous butterfly brilliance background stamp, I stamped basic gray cardstock with basic grey ink to create a subtle yet elegant background. I embellished the background with a balmy blue hexagon from beautiful shapes dies and finished the focal point off with a layered butterfly from brilliant wings dies. My sentiment is from cottage rose stamp set and die cut with stitched rectangle dies. The sparkling gems are new and from the upcoming July - December mini catalogue called fine sparkle gems.   

Close up of butterfly die cut


Inside the card I stamped a sentiment from hello beautiful stamp set and placed a small butterfly die cut to carry it from the card front
The envelope is decorated with butterfly brilliance background stamp

Up next we have Kathryn Ruddick. I can't wait to see what she is sharing.

If you have find a broken link on the blog hop, the master list for the blog hop can be found here.

Check out my previous basic gray creations 2021, 2020 & 2018.

Live in Australia? Click on the products below to purchase them today! 

Butterfly Brilliance Cling Stamp Set [155092] $32.00	Cottage Rose Cling Stamp Set (English) [159040] $44.00	Hello Beautiful Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [158041] $32.00	Basic Gray A4 Card Stock [121689] $16.25
Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad [149165] $14.00	Balmy Blue A4 Cardstock [147007] $16.25	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad [147105] $14.00	Mango Melody A4 Cardstock [147013] $16.25
Mango Melody Classic Stampin' Pad [147093] $14.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $218.00	Brilliant Wings Dies [155523] $77.00
Stitched Rectangles Dies [151820] $61.00	Beautiful Shapes Dies [158046] $50.00	Adhesive Sheets [152334] $19.25	Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $32.00
Heat Tool [129056] $53.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.75

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Comments

[Rosa Leyden]

Ros your gray on gray stamped butterflies background sets off the bright hexagon and layered butterfly nicely. Love the new sparkling gems!

[Rachel Woollard]

Another stunning colour combination Ros, I love the hexagon behind the butterfly, highlights the butterfly perfectly.

[Catherine Proctor]

You've really showcased Basic Gray so well, Ros – the butterflies pop so well against it! Gorgeous card!

[Tina Gillespie]

Your card looks fantastic! I'm usually too lazy to sponge around the edges of stuff, but I absolutely love the effect it adds to the butterflies. I will have to stop being so lazy!

[CHRISTINE BLAIN]

Ooh, I love the drama of the Basic Gray background, Ros! It is really elegant, and makes the other two colours really pop. Beautiful card.

[Sharon Davern]

Fantastic card Ros, love all the butterflies in the background stamp stamped in Basic Gray on Basic Gray looks great and then to make the complementary colours the pop of colour! Great layout! I think I need the hexagons! Great Card!

[Diane Furniss]

Lovely Card Ros, the butterflies really stand out so well.

[Kate Morgan]

What a great design and different colour combination, love it. The hexagon is a nice change up to a square or circle behind the feature butterfly too!

[Kathryn R]

Utterly love this Ros!! Such elegant lines and magic pop of contrasting colours! Brilliantly done!

[Theresa Gerrard]

Wow Ros this is not a colour combo that I would have thought to use but you have done it beautifully. That Mango butterfly just pops