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Hi! I’m happy to be here with you today for Happy Little Stampers’ May Case the Designer Challenge.
The winner will receive a $15 (Australian) gift certificate from Happy Little Stampers.
I am excited to be your designer for May!
Here’s my card:

I used a die from HLS Butterfly Dies and a sentiment from Thinking of You.
I’d like to play this card along at Word Art Wednesday’s Challenge #228-#229,at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday’s Anything Goes, and FUSION-Sweet Orange Blossoms. My card reminds me of both the Sketch and the Inspiration photo. Don’t you think? And I’d like to play at The Card Concept #54 {Spring Flowers} (CAS Mixed Media).
I used a stencil and stenciled white embossing paste onto the black card stock.

I added a small amount of red water color paint to the blooms. (This butterfly is going to flutter over to my conservatory.) 

I also added a water colored die cut butterfly.

Lastly, I stamped the “Thanks” in embossing ink and then I heat embossed in white embossing powder. I’d like to play this along at CAS Mix Up and at Love to Create Challenge 9 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes. I’d also like to share this over st Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday April 2016: Flowers.

Please stop over at the challenge blog to see the super CASEs by my teammates on the HLS CAS Design Team.
Thanks for stopping by!
XO, Grace & Peace
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Your die stenciled stems and die cut butterfly are beautiful against the black – wonderful inking on the pieces too! thanks for joining us in the Fusion Challenge Melissa!
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Watercolors are so effective. Thank you so much for entering your creative and beautiful art in the Word Art Wednesday challenge.
Blessings, Carole
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Gorgeous!!!! Love everything about this stunning card! Thanks for joining us at the Card Concept!
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Beautiful card! The black is so striking and the perfect backdrop for those gorgeous dies. Thanks so much for joining us at Fusion Card Challenge.
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Beautiful card Melissa! I love how you used embossing paste and your flower stencil on this card. The coloring on top of the paste looks fabulous! Love that watercolored butterfly as well. Now I can’t wait to get the time to CASE your beautiful card! Hugs, Brenda
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Really striking card design, Melissa! Your stenciling is perfect, so beautiful in white on the black base! Love the touch of watercoloring, too!
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Beautiful card, love that technique! Thanks so much for joining us at We Love 2 Create this time
Claire xx
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Hi Mellissa, Your card is lovely with the surprise of watercolored dies:) Great color pops on the black cardstock. Thanks for stopping by my blog and asking about the Sentiment stamp from my post on Mixed media Picture tutorial using Penny Black Stencil Promenade. The
stamp set is from Penny Black, named Life’s messages. Have a Blessed day!
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Your card is so beautiful! It was super fun to CASE-ing it! Åsa xx
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What a stunning card Melissa, I am so happy to be CASE-ing it, anything with black, and I already love it. Your embossing paste results are fabulous.
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Thanks, Rahmat. 🙂
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Sorry forgot to say that thank you for linking with us at the Card Concept 🙂
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🙂 !
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This is such a stunning card to CASE. What beautiful inspiration, Melissa!!
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Thanks, Birgit. 🙂
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What a gorgeous card, Melissa! I love how everything plays off that black background! Very elegant! Thanks so much for sharing this with us at CAS Mix Up!
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Your water-coloring is FABULOUS, Melissa! The composition and layout are awesome! I have seen so much “growth” in your skills and talent in the last two years! Kudos to you! Thanks so much for playing Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Anything Goes” Challenge!
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Wow thanks, Virginia! 🙂 I appreciate the encouragement.
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OMG Melissa, I love how your beautiful stenciled embossed image pops with your black background and heat embossed sentiment. Your little bit of watercoloring on your flowers is so creative. TFS your detailed description and joining us at CAS Mix Up May Challenge.
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Thank, Nancy. 🙂
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Wow … beautiful card Melissa! The embossing paste withe the random red watercolouring looks so arsty! And it just pops off your dark background. So great to see you linking up to CAS Mix Up! Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful card with us! xx
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Hello Melissa!
This month your CASE card is super awesome!
Love your design and thanks for inspiration!
Hugs,
Gloria
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Thanks, Gloria. 🙂
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I adore this gorgeous card Melissa and couldn’t wait to play with your technique – such a fabulous card to CASE.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Hugs
Carol x
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Thanks, Carol. 🙂
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