Getting Sketch with Catered Mojo! Butterflies!

The new challenge at Catered Crop is Garden Party.  I absolutely love how Linda introduces each challenge with a quote...

I went to a garden party to reminisce 
          with my old friends
A chance to share old memories 
          and play our songs again.
~ lyrics by Ricky Nelson, 1972

I have flowers for you today, but I also have a kaleidoscope of butterflies - that is seriously what a group of butterflies is called.  Either that - or swarm or rabble. but doesn't kaleidoscope sound beautiful?  I think many of you have moved past shaker cards - but I am still loving them!  I recently got a die that cuts teeny tiny butterflies and decided that butterflies were very representative of a garden.

This is the first card that I made - I keep saying that shaker cards will always cheer up the recipient, so I decided a get well card would be perfect.  But after I made it, I realized it didn't work with the "party" part of the challenge so I have another to share also.


There isn't quite as much confetti in this card as it looks.  Because this was such a tall shaker, I added a strip of foam adhesive towards the top of the ribbon.  This makes it a double level shaker!  I didn't want all of my punched shapes behind the green ribbon.

This card uses the current sketch at Mojo Monday.  The card is 3.5" by 5.5".

Now for a card that is more garden "party".  I am still using the teeny, tiny butterfly but went for a "celebrate" card with much brighter colors.  I would like to be in this garden!

This card uses the current sketch at My Favorite Things.

I hope you play along with the Catered Crop Garden Party challenge.  Linda always curates a Pinterest board full of inspiration when the challenge first comes out.  Then the following Sunday, she brings together all of the design team cards.  Here's this week's Pinterest board - just click anywhere on this graphic to go to the complete Pinterest board.

Get Well Soon

• Stamps: Verve Lean on Me (flower), With Love (sentiment)
• Paper: Echo Park Sweet Day 6x6, Papertrey Melon Berry and Lemon Tart, Stampin' Up Sage Shadow,
• Ink: Memento Black, Copics
• Accessories: Verve Pointed Flowers die, Spellbinders narrow rectangle die (they don't next exactly so I cut the center rectangle then used my paper trimmer to cut the border), MFT Stitched Circle STAX and Flying Butterflies die, Martha Stewart ribbon, Hemptique 10-lb Natural Twine, two sizes of hole punches

Celebrate Your Special Day

• Stamps: My Favorite Things Birthday Greetings
• Paper: My Favorite Things Wild Cherry, Berrylicious and Primitive White, Simon Says Stamps Sunshine, Fog and Smoke, My Mind's Eye Blink of an Eye 6x6
• Ink: Memento Black
• Accessories: Pretty Pink Posh 4 mm sparkling clear sequins, My Favorite Things Rectangle Frames die, Gerbera Daisy die, Flying Butterflies die, Fishtail Layers die, Berrylicious button, Hemptique 10-lb white twine