Butterfly Music Collage

Hello, everyone!  Today I've made a collage-style card with stamped background.  I was inspired by Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge theme of Butterflies plus Music Notes.

Although I have been enjoying CAS cards lately, I also like adding lots of layers, so this was a fun card to make! Anyone who follows my blog knows I enter a gazillion challenges, and every once in a while I am lucky enough to win a random draw! Today's card features some of my prizes and I would like to thank the sponsors! First there's the background paper that covers a white card base. There are two different specialty papers - I believe they are cotton.  I won them from DL.ART - thank you, Diana! They just arrived in the mail today and I thought they would be perfect for my card. On the pale pink paper, I stamped music notes repeatedly. The paper has swirls of stitching and you can see it peeking out in a few places.

The next layer is a page out of an old song book I got at a thrift store.  I die cut it with Simon Says Stamps Stitched Rectangle, sponged Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink around the edges, and stamped a butterfly repeatedly in Brilliance Pearlescent Coral.  The clear stamp was part of a prize from the Butterfly Challenge - thank you, Mrs. A!  Next I added two butterfly postage stamps. For a focal point I used an image from Gecko Galz collage sheet called Nature's Bliss; it was a freebie at one point, either in a blog hop or from their newsletter - thank you!  I printed it on photo paper, trimmed the image, and layered it with brown and black cardstock.

The beautiful black flower was a prize from Flourish with a Bling (thank you, Lucy!), and I added two die-cut leaves (Cheery Lynn Rose Leaf Strip) that were snippets left over from another project.  The Just for You ticket sentiment is from Digital Delights.  Lastly I added a die-cut butterfly (Memory Box Kaleidoscope), cut from a leftover snippet of black cardstock, which I accented with a pink pearl from Want 2 Scrap (also in the prize from DL.ART, thank you!).

Here are the stamps used. The music notes are from Michael's:

I would like to support these fun challenges: Allsorts Bingo (Gems, Flowers, Stitching) 1/3; Artistic Inspirations AG with Twist of Spring UE; Blessings Ink Amusing Challenges Butterflies 1/2 (TOP 3); Butterfly Challenge Butterflies plus Music Notes 1/3; Craft Your Passion AG 2/3; Crafting from the Heart AG 2/3; Crafty Gals Corner Vintage 1/2; Creative Card Crew Sentiment 1/3; Deep Ocean Things with Wings UE; Die Cut Diva's In the Garden UE; DL.ART April Linky AG UE 1/day; Dragonfly Dreams/Laurelcraft Let's See Spring UE; DRS Designs Inspired by Colour UE; Gecko Galz Facebook Group AG UE; Great Impressions Easter or Spring 3/3; Hiding in my Craftroom Super Scraps Saturday (as mentioned above, die-cut leaves and butterfly) 3/3; Inspiration Destination AG UE; Inspiration Journal Everything Goes UE; Jo's Scrap Shack Florals and Butterflies 2/3; Mema's AG using Die or Punch 2/3; My Craft Creations April AG UE (RANDOM WINNER); Not Just Cards AG UE; One Sweet Challenge Spring has Sprung UE: Open-Minded Crafting Fun Recycle Something (page of old music book, postage stamps) 1/3; {PIN}spirational AG 2/5; Pixie's Snippet Playground (snippets as mentioned above, die-cut leaves and butterfly) 2/3;Penny's Paper-Crafty One for the Girls 2/3; Quirky Crafts Many Flowers 2/3; Scribble and Scrap AG 3/3; Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Make Your own Background 2/5; Simon Says Stamp Work-It Wednesday Stamping 2/3; Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE; Stamping Sensations Pretty in Pink 1/3; Sweet Stamps Blog Pink 1E; The Corrosive Floral Fantasy 3/3; Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Add Spring Flowers UE; The Outlawz Paper a la Mode Pretty in Pink 1E; Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 2/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!