The cameo is a button from Hobby Lobby. I cut the loop off the back with my craft scissors and glued it into place with Crystal Effects. 
Again I used the Martha Stewart Border Punch, a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder and a sentiment from one of the Stampin'Up! All Year Cheer sets. The cardbase is Brocade Blue.
The butterfly was stamped in Night of Navy on Whisper White cardstock, cut out and then popped up with dimensionals. The shiny little gemstone at the head of the butterfly was placed to catch the eye of the viewer and pull it back into the sentiment.
TIP: When placing accents & embellishments position them so that lines in the image point toward the focal point of the card or photo on a scrapbook page (e.g. the antennae on the butterfly).
Thanks for visiting today.
Happy Stamping! Jill
Okay - now for today's card. My DH (dear husband or darling husband) loves to attend auctions and he NEVER comes back emptyhanded. At one of the recent auctions there was one item he needed but to get it he had to buy a box full of junk - rusty nails, papers, etc. Normally he would remove the item he wants and then just leave the box behind for them to re-sale at the next auction - but this time he brought the box home with him. Buried beneath all the junk was this piece of costume jewelry hanging from an old, discolored clasp. Definitely NOT something I would ever wear - but isn't it beautiful as an embellishment for this card?
My card was inspired by this wonderful card by Joanne Travis. Do you see the resemblance? No? Well let me explain the inspiration. My plan was to completely recreate her card so I started out by stamping the leaves in Always Artichoke across the bottom of the card. Then I colored the Clematis. Once I began placing the flowers I realized I HATED HOW IT WAS LOOKING!!! I don't know how Joanne made her card appear so clean and vibrant. After I spent about 15 minutes trying to make it look good I decided the best way to do that was to cut off the bottom of the card to remove the most of the leaves. Then I stamped more around the other three sides to create a frame. The plan at THAT point was to center the Clematis blooms in the frame and pop them up on dimensionals. STILL HATED IT!!!
Remember the sweetest thing of all at Easter is the knowledge that
Both cards are actually trial runs for my techniques class and I was pleased with the result. I like to add just a little elemental touch but at the same time keep it simple so that we can complete the three cards in the 2 hour class time.
In defense of myself here - I know the little heart brads don't look evenly spaced - but the holes are in the right places. Unfortunately the manufacturer of the brads didn't align the post in the same place making one heart look lower than the other. HONEST - it's the truth!!!!
If you live in Central Illinois and are tired of cold, wet weather then you DEFINITELY are. I took this photograph at a friend's house the other day - just think, just a week or two more and these miniature little buds will be filling the air with their wonderul fragrance!
into my little studio last night. I have a technique's class coming up that I need to prepare for and this is one of the technique's I will be teaching. I'm not satified with the total card yet but did very much enjoy creating the image. I hope you enjoyed seeing it.
Thanks for visiting. Have a great day - and until next time - 
How cool is that???? My new blogging friend, Becky, awarded me this little "jem" this morning and it has totally set my day off on a happy note! Thanks so much Becky for the compliment!
I hurried over to Hobby Lobby on my lunch break today with my 40% off coupon to purchase my Prisma pencils. I have a 50% off coupon for Michael's that goes into effect on Sunday and could have saved myself another $7 - but I HAD to have them today so I could experiment with them this evening. I couldn't wait the extra few days!!! So look closely at my card. Really closely. Do you see any coloring on this card???? NOPE!!! I was so tired by the time I finished with the tax work I wasn't in the mood to color. So I gathered up these beautiful papers from "The Paper Studio", used a couple of Nestabilities, a Sale-a-bration Set from Stampin'Up! for a greeting and a little bling. NOT at all complicated - but very fresh and Spring like. It makes me feel good just looking at it.
I also got a chance to try out a new Inkadinkadoo stamp set called Birds Galore . This set is a little out of my realm - it has a lot more frills than I normally prefer on animal designs - but I really liked the images. I stamped this image in Not Quite Navy then colored it using SU!markers . What an ugly choice of colors!!!! Nope - don't like it. Throw it away? No - just lay it aside and went come back to it later. When I came back I noticed that I had put it atop a scrap piece of embossed paper and thought it didn't look too bad up against the embossing. I cut a circle with my Nestabilities and laid the bird against it. The wing span of the bird just fit the circle and as I laid it together on my desktop I thought it looked like it was flying toward the moon - which is why I chose to sponge with So Saffron and Real Rust. It sort of gave it a moonglow.
