Calendar Girls Cherish

It is the 28^th, so I am here to welcome you to another round with the Calendar Girls!

Who are the Calendar Girls? We are a group of bloggers who want to have a place where friendships blossom, creativity abounds, and encouragement prevails! In keeping with that dream, this blog group has been created so we will have a place to interact and enjoy being fellow bloggers. 

Our hostess for September is Paola and here is her beautiful challenge:

To honor a dear longtime friend of mine who passed away early today, I would like to request that you create a beautiful card using the following guidelines:

Your card must be a fancy fold, and have apples stamped on it -and colored-(OR, if you don't own any apples stamps, apples can be incorporated on your cards via designer papers, stickers, dies, etc.), plus have at least one 3-D butterfly on your card too.   The main colors used for this challenge are to be your own favorite colors (use at least two of them please, and tell us which ones they are once you blog it.)

Why the apples/butterflies combos you may ask?  My friend used to bring me tons and tons of beautiful apples from her garden at about this time of the year as the fall season just starts to appear, and today, at the hospice, she was covered in a gorgeous handmade blanket full of beautiful colorful butterflies as we said our final goodbye....A bigger 3-D all white sequined butterfly was placed on top of her heart too. Please keep your card ‘happy/festive’ - as a celebration of LIFE in general! Hug a friend today...life's way too short!

I looked through my stamps and do not have anything with an apple.   But, I was sure I had some DSP with an apple theme.  I recently made a pocket card for a swap on SCS and liked the look, so I thought I would try it again.  I think it goes well with the butterflies.

Here is the insert from the pocket card.  I really do not have any favorite colors—but I do like greens and blues—it matches the designer paper pretty well!

Image/Sentiment—Stampin’ Up Warm Words; Stamp Oasis Success is

Cardstock—Gina K White; Stampin’ Up Pear Pizzazz, Pool Party and Island Indigo; We R Memory Keepers Show & Tell-Teacher’s Pet Designer Paper

Ink—SU Island Indigo

Accessories--Apple Brad; SU Sizzlits Wonderful Wings Die and Oval Punches; Indigo Ribbon; Crystal Rhinestones

Please check out the blogs of all of the Calendar Girls—there are 10 of us, so it might take you a bit.   I am sure you will enjoy all of the beautiful creations for Paola’s friend. All of the blogs are listed on my left sidebar. Thanks for joining us!!!!!!!