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(Note: Please scroll down or click here to see my CASual Fridays post! Thank you!)

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I'm honored to be guesting at my friend Mariana Grigsby's blog today!
If you don't know Mariana, you'll want stop by and see her inspiring cards and layouts.
She has a wonderful style and I love her start-to-finish videos that are fun to watch.

Mariana has started having monthly themes on her blog, and February's theme is
BUTTERFLIES & HEARTS.

I was asked to create and share a card based on the theme and here it is.

See the hexagon background? I call it "water stamping with a stencil".
After ink distressing white card stock with distress inks, I spritzed some water
on a stencil and pressed it on the inked surface.

When I lifted the stencil, the wet portion took away the color
and left behind a "ghost" image. After drying the surface with a heat gun, I gold embossed
the sentiment and added some hearts and butterfly punched from gold card stock.

I'm also linking this up to the Happy for Hexagons Challenge over at
Moxie Fab World since I used a hexagon (honeycomb) stencil, as well as
Winnie & Walter's Join in to Win.

Big thanks to Mariana for having me as a guest designer,

and thank you for stopping by!

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