CCM 51 Butterflies

This fortnight’s challenge at Crafty Cardmakers is Butterflies, chosen by the lovely Melly.

We are sponsored by and they are offering a prize of £10 to use in their store.

Ironically I had just done a card for Lexi and I had chosen a butterfly for that one. Perhaps I should have tried a sneaky and combined two DT challenges in one post! But as I love butterflies I have made a nice fresh card for this challenge.

My image, sentiment and indeed BP are all from Elusive Images, the paper being part of the Graphicus Guild welcome pack.

For the image I started with a blank sheet of card and ink dusted some Big N Juicy Inks onto it. I then stamped the gorgeous and huge (6”) butterfly onto my ink dusted background with versamark and then embossed it with Sheena’s Wow sparkle powder in purple. I distressed the edges of the card with a pair of scissors and embossed them with a combination of the purple Wow powders and a sparkly blue (the same two colours I used on the sentiment stamp). The lace ribbon I dyed with the same Inkpad using both the pinky/purple and blue/green shades.

The flower is from HOTP, lovely organza petals layered up to make a flower and the centre is actually a snowflake brad, but who would know, well you all do now, lol, cos I told you. All the swirly/branch embellishments are cut with various Marianne dies.

I’m entering this into:-

Clear It Out – Anything Goes (Flowers, had for a year or more, the lace for even longer and I cannot even remember how old the paper is!)

Craft Us Crazy - #13 Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - #44 Add A Flower

DYSU - #29 wings

Flutterby Wednesday - #163 Open challenge

Little Claire’s Designs - #11 Things With Wings

Paper Cutz - #101 Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash – #9 Technique Turn Back (I haven’t stamped and NOT coloured in ages, and I haven’t used this stamp for months)

Simon Says Stamp and Show – Anything Goes

Stamp Something - Embellished