Cas Friday challenge "Bling"

 Look at this gorgeous butterfly stamp that I received in the mail this morning from my friend Heather she knows that I love butterflies and flowers so when this arrived I couldn't wait to ink it up. 

The perfect stamp for this weeks challenge at CAS-ual Fridays, I am getting used to CAS now and am enjoying the challenge, this one was ideal for me as I love a bit of bling.  I stamped the butterfly straight on to the white card in three colours and embossed with clear powder.  I then stamped a further image onto some vellum and cut it out. I then glued it to the middle butterfly and added matching bling to the images. The background card is a deep shimmery purple colour and quite difficult to photograph, its not as dark as the photo suggests.

I just thought I would add these photographs to show you, we have had alot of nests in our garden this year, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Robin and Collared Doves.  This little adult Blue Tit has been rushing backwards and forwards for days feeding her young on insects, you can see by her ruffled feathers that she has had a very busy time!!

And these cheeky chicks are peering from behind our satellite dish, there are actually two chicks in the tiny nest and as you can see they have out grown the nest.  They actually flew the next day!

 I just wanted to thank you all for the lovely messages I received on my Wedding Anniversary, we had a fabulous day and hubby took me to my favourite Italian restaurant.  Sorry I have not had time to visit all your blogs this week, I hope to catch up soon.