Hello again. I have a card to share today, but it took me ages to find a suitable butterfly. I can’t believe I have so few butterflies in my stash – and I couldn’t actually find more than a couple of stamps, but I found this old Spellbinders butterfly die-set – which absolutely suited what I wanted to do.
I purposely took a wider photo – so you could the pheasants in the background – just above the butterfly. This next photo has another female off on her food hunting travels:
Back to the card………I found the butterfly die-set, and then looked everywhere for a turquoise ink, pen, marker, card – you name it – I hunted. Again, it took a while, but in the end I used a Copic Marker to colour a piece of ‘Make It colour blending card’ I ordered from Marker Geek – this is soooo smooth, and colours and blends beautifully.
I die-cut the butterfly, then thought about the card base….and thought….then realised I had a delivery of the new Stamps By Me die sets just sitting there waiting to be opened. So – this is one of the dies. A huge die – I mean huge – 8 inches square…..three passes in my Big Shot Pro – despite a shim (should have used the Gemini!!) and I stuck this down to a white card base.
The sentiment is from Visible Image – a stamp set full of encouraging sentiments I have been longing to use – and I think it suits a butterfly perfectly. I stamped the sentiment in a Lawn Fawn grey, as I thought a black would be too much.
A little close up:
The butterfly is only stuck down by the centre body area – the wings just floating there.
I shall be entering this into the following challenges:
CAS on Friday – CAS butterflies
CASology – Turquoise
Make My Monday Challenge – Anything with wings
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – anything goes
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Love the pop of the butterfly against the white. Thanks for joining in the fun as CASology this week.
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Thank you very much :0
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Beautiful image and sentiment! I love the movement a partially adhered butterfly gives to the design. Thanks for joining us at CASology this week!
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Thank you very much Jacquie 🙂
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a fabulous card!
thank you so much for playing along with us at make my Monday challenge!
hugs and kisses from germany,
Silvi xoxo
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Thank you Silvi 🙂
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Beautiful CAS card. Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday. Love Dawn x
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Thank you Dawn 🙂
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Such a beautiful butterfly card! Thanks for joining CAS on Friday! Hugs Ã…sa
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Thank you very much 🙂
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Beautiful CAS card! Your embossed background is wonderful and the sentiment with a butterfly make such a great encouragement card together. Thank you for playing with us at Make My Monday and hope you join us again soon.
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Thank you Debbie 🙂
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Love the background for your turquoise butterfly! Thanks so much for joining CASology this week!
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Thank you very much 🙂
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