The oranges and dark blues in this collection are perfect. I am also a sucker for any print that is harlequin in pattern! Here, I combined two patterns and added in the BRAND NEW sticker letters from the "Blueberry Hill" collection. I can never get enough alphabet stickers so these work for me. Notice the tiny accents of the self adhesive buttons and they also already come with the thread in the holes - how does it get better!
Here I combined some new and some old! The papers are from the BRAND NEW "My Friend Birdie" collection. I used a piece from the smaller pads. These prints are the perfect size for cards. The sentiment was printed from the computer.
See those cute chairs? They are stamps from a previous release. I just stamped them on patterned papers and then cut them out. 
And this card combines patterned and elements from the "Blueberry Hill" collection. I am madly in love with the blues and greens along with the yellow flowers. The flourish label beneath the flower is a Spellbinder Label die. I just love how easy these are to work with and the wonder shapes of these labels. 
With the colors in the photo, I could just see these papers from these two different collections matching just right. I love to use a collection of papers because they are made to go together so well, but I also love to pull together patterns from other collections that make it all work. The background paper is from the Will He B the 1 collection and the soft, green scallop circle is from the Ellie's Day Out collection. This piece is actually a larger circle but I cut just the green part out of the larger circle so it would fit on my card and so I could use this color.
My little flowers were created with punched out circles from the Date Night Strips patterned paper. I used those punched out circles as the base of my flowers with a little punched flower placed on that and a self adhesive button in the middle. These buttons are the BEST - self adhesive and cute with the little burlap look on them and the stitching already in place. How does it get any easier?
I cut out one of the little tickets for an accent and what is funny about that is that we were driving down the 101 in California when we stopped in this cute little town with Victorian houses everywhere and that is where I took this photo.
I already had this piece of Date Night Strips sitting on my desk so I cut out a portion of it to create my little birthday card. 
The pink heart is part of the strip, I cut out an additional heart to layer over that and I also cut out tickets from the You're the Ticket paper. 
I cut the strips apart in the piece of paper I had using scallop scissors and then I tucked the circle piece under the other so just a portion of the circles peek out. 
The above image is the piece of paper that I am talking about, taken from the Dan the Record Man collection. I wanted the black, record looking portion from this piece of paper. I started to cut off the scallop edge but I sure didn't want to waste any of that because I love scallop circles. So I very carefully got a cut big enough to get my scissors in, I used a medium scallop scissors that I have and started to cut around the inside of the circle, making scallop cuts on the backside of the bigger scallop edge. Now I have a complete, cut out circle to set aside for my next project. (you will be able to picture this piece better when you see the layout I created with it)
What I didn't realize when I started out cutting this piece is the neat, negative scallop edge that I would create around the black, record print circle. This was going to work to my advantage for my card because I thought it helped with a masculine look. I cut two partial circles to fit on the front of my card. 
The background piece on my card is from the "Hear the Beat" patterned paper. I LOVE this piece of paper, it just seems to fit so many themes in it's soft shades of yellow. The accent pieces are cut from the "Record Room" patterned paper. 
The background piece of paper is a ledger print from the North Pole Nights collection. I LOVE ledger prints, they are so neutral and go with everything. This piece was just the right colors that I wanted to use. My scallop circle from the 4 the Record paper is all cut and ready to go so that part was fast and easy. I cut out one strip of a ruler print from the Henry's Brilliance collection. I thought it had a "boy" look to it and the color was just right. I used a sketch from Unscripted Sketches for my layout, I love the inspiration that comes from finding sketches. 
I basically have four layers. The little bee print paper is my background layer and some of the clouds are on that layer too. I cut the grass with scissors from the Butterfly Rest patterned paper. I just love this green piece, it can be so many different things and here it is my grass. One of the layers of the grass is also on the first or background layer. This cut out figure is the most foremost piece in my box. The bottom portion of him has one layer of foam tape, the portion under the umbrella has three layers of foam tape. 
I took this photo so that you could "look down inside" at my layers. The full cut-out figure of my granddaughter holding her brothers hand has one layer of foam tape behind that to form the second layer. 
The second strip of grass has two layers of foam tape pieces so that forms the third layer in my box. Notice how I placed the cut out figures of my granddaugher and her brother in between the grass and on top of some of it too.
When I mention my layers of foam tape, I am meaning that I am using these great little squares from 3L so I placed one piece on my figure, I remove the little protective paper that is on it and then place another piece of the foam tape on top of that. For three layers, I, of course, peel off that second protective layer and place another piece of foam tape on top of that. In the above photo, you can see behind the top umbrella, the three pieces of foam tape piled on top of each other. 
I cut strips from the Bee Strips paper to accent the top, border of my box. The clouds are even added in layers and I hand cut my big raindrops. The raindrops are coated with the Aleene's Paper Glaze so they look wet. I added Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip to some of the clouds for a slight glitter look. 
You can see that I created my background paper for my card by stamping one of the little butterflies in the set repeatedly on a piece of white cardstock. I didn't color in anything for this card, instead when I had stamped all of my butterflies with a Black Versafine stamp pad, I embossed all of them with clear embossing powder and then gave this piece a few spritzes of Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. I used two different colors of spray and then inked the outside edges of my piece with a turquoise blue Fluid Chalk stamp pad. 
Now, when I stamped the large butterfly my challenge was to stamp the butterfly on some kind of paper so that I wouldn't have to color any of it in. I picked this great, kraft colored cardstock and stamped the butterfly once, again with the Versafine black stamp pad and embossed it with the clear embossing powder. Next I took a page from an old dictionary and stamped the butterfly again and embossed this one with the clear. For this second butterfly, I didn't cut out all of the image. I left off all of the outside layers of it's wings. I gently curled the wings on the second butterfly and then glued that in place over the first one, glueing it just down the middle so the wings were free. The green background paper on the card is also from the Flaming Butterfly collection.
For this card, I wanted to use this piece of patterned paper from the Flaming Butterfly collection for the background of my card but I wanted the butterfly to have soft colors. 
I colored it with Copic markers, using very pale shades of the colors and I added some Aleene's Paper Glaze to the middle sections of the butterfly for some added interest. When this Paper Glaze is dry, it gives a 3-D, epoxy look.
This buttefly has rather soft shades of the colors too with an added interest.
After I colored it with Copic markers, I filled in all of the middle sections with Ultra Fine Flower Soft. Can you see the wonderful texture that gave my butterfly? The card base is Core'dinations cardstock. The lines were created with a Scor-Pal tool and then these lines were sanded. 
