FRED - a progressive card blog hop (and blog candy)

Fred? Fred the Blog Hop? If this is the first you're hearing of this term, it's a newly coined acronym that stands for Friends Rock Every Day (thanks Dreena!)

The blog hop is a short one, only 9 blogs total. If you haven't come here from Lisa's, then I suggest you start from the beginning and go see Lydia at Understand Blue and check out how Fred has progressed (and why we did this in the first place).

This is the card I received from Lisa... so pretty, and yet I needed to add something AND leave room for two others to do the same. I had a pretty short time frame to do this in too, as time in my craft cave is definitely limited these days...

What could I add to a sympathy card that was simple, and fit in with the rest of the card? i started looking at my (piles of) stamps, and at some "spare parts" and saw a butterfly. And it was just 'right'. Of course, it was entirely the wrong color, but that's easily fixed. I pulled out the Great Friend stamp set, and stamped the butterfly in versamark on Pretty in Pink, and then embossed it with Iridescent Ice pearlescent (non-SU) embossing powder. Et voilà! I used stampin' dimensionals to make it look like the wings were flying, signed the inside & back and then packed it up to send out.

I send the card on to Dreena, whose blog is the next stop on this Fred blog hop!

To recap: Blog stops are:
1) Lydia Fielder
2) Dana Keith
3) Mary Dawn Quirindongo
4) Leslie Hanna
5) Lisa Adametz
6) ME!
7) Dreena Guptill
8) Tara Liddicoat
9) Sue Farrant - Fred's home. Not an official blog stop, but she's written a post about Fred anyway, so we'll count it here :)

And I said there'd be blog candy too, right? Well how about this. Leave me a comment telling me whose element on the progressive card to this point has been your favorite and why.Winner will be picked at random from all received, and will win some MSCrafts 12x12 paper packs (the ones in this pic... none have been opened yet), the Stampin' Up Elegant Lines embossing folder (I found an extra in the cave. OOPS!) and some yet-to-be-determined ribbon. because lordy. this girl has enough ribbon to wrap up the world.

ETA: any comments posted before Saturday at midnight ADT (11:00pm Saturday, EST) will be eligible for bpig candy. Winner will be drawn Sunday(-ish... i do have a small child at home, y'know. time kind of escapes me sometimes...)