Butterflies and Watercolored Grosgrain Ribbons by Jean Okimoto

Here's a simple March Challenge inspiration card with my current favorites - Morning Garden Butterflies, Butterfly Ensemble and watercolors. It's a Ribbons Challenge - and our Grosgrain Ribbons set is perfect for the occasion too. Hello, Jean Okimoto here, sharing a quick card for anyone, anytime.

Cut scraps of watercolored paper with the three Grosgrain Ribbon dies - run the dies through the machine lengthwise for best results. Leave the paper in the dies and dry-emboss them for added texture using the plates and embossing mat required for your machine.

Weave four horizontal and three vertical strips. Flip everything over to the backside and tape the strips together so they're easier to work with. Attach it to a white A-6 (4-⅝" x 6-¼") card.

Cut the solid Butterfly Ensemble butterfly from turquoise vellum. Cut the detailed Morning Garden Butterfly from white cardstock. Cut the center portion - from the Morning Garden set - from Rose Gold mirror cardstock.

Here's an easy, invisible way to attach the vellum butterfly - just place a narrow strip of doublestick tape on one of the horizontal strips where it will be covered by the butterflies. It'll blend right in with the background.

Attach Scor-Tape behind blue glittered cardstock and diecut it with the Honeycomb Background die. Instant self-adhesive glittered hexagons...a whole sheet of them for spring and summer projects!

Gather your favorite ribbons and Memory Box dies and join our March Challenge - we'd love to see your design!

Be sure to visit Impress Tukwila, University Village or online for our latest release of wonderful spring and summer dies from Memory Box and Poppystamps. We'll be using some of them in our HEY THANKS class in Tukwila on Saturday March 4th - see you there!

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