Butterfly Easel Card, and a happy phone call

Very exciting day today. Well actually my day was far from exciting but I did get an exciting phone call.

One of my special blogger friends phoned me today. Pea from Whimsical Endeavors phoned ME today!!!! It was like talking to an old (let me rephrase that) childhood friend. Can you believe we talked for over 2 1/2 hours, lol. We only stopped talking because our hubby's wanted some time with us, lol. Nice to find someone who talks as much as me ;)

Thank you so much for phoning me tonight. I really, really enjoyed chatting with you :)

What I did do today was finish this card I have been working on for the last few day's or so.

It is an easel card. I got the idea from Debbie, here is her Tutorial on this card. Her cards are stunning.

Here is my card closed up. Wish I could take better photos.

 Here it is in the easel position.
I made all the flowers, except the beige ones.

 I used a Tim Holtz large ticket and stamped it with the Stampin' Up stamp. I distressed the edges and then inked them up. I only scrunched and inked around the inner edges as I still wanted to be able to read the sentiment.  I made the velum butterflies in the bottom left hand corner.

 A nice little cluster of flowers. I am not sure of the name or who makes the tag holder as I received it in a RAK. But I will tell you those suckers are hard to spread to put your paper in. I used a sharp knife (like that was safe lol) and Heather and I got that sucker in there, lol.

 Here is the flower that I shared yesterday, with a tutorial.
                           
When I was finished my butterfly card, I asked (told) Heather to come and take a look and tell me what she thought. Now in this family we are honest, you ask for an opinion you are going to get it. Plus Heather isn't a girly, girl and she hates pink. Seriously, if I served her supper on a pink plate she wouldn't eat, or change the plate, I am not joking, lol.
OK so when I asked her what she thought she said "There's a lot of stuff on there.....plus its pink, lol. Love that girl :)    Well she loved my G45 Steam punk album ;)

As I was making this card, I watched Burlesque. I actually liked it. It was pretty predicable, but what is not to love with Cher. Plus that Christina Aguilera can belt it out, WOW.

Thankful Thursday:
Ashley is feeling better, she went to work today.
A happy phone call from Pea :)
Heather's honesty
Hubby's sense of humour.
Kristy's wit

What are you thankful for today?

Tracy