Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Perfect Sentiment Challenge #71 - Fairies or Butterflies

My husband has been a great photographer since high school. Before we married, he had a fascination with photographing butterflies. I helped him plant a butterfly garden which included purple coneflowers. Later I added asters to attract the migrating monarch butterflies in September. These details helped inspire the card I made today for The Perfect Sentiment Challenge.

CREATE A CARD FOR THE OCCASION OF YOUR CHOICE USING EITHER A FAIRY OR BUTTERFLY IN YOUR DESIGN. DON'T FORGET YOUR SENTIMENT ON THE FRONT.


     

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I made this card for my pastor's wife who has been sick in the hospital. My image, "Thinking of You," is from Pattie's Creations. I printed it twice. I used the second image to cut out the closest butterfly wing and some of the petals to pop dot on the image. I colored all of it with Copic markers. The center of the flower had little dots, so I dotted the darker earthtone marker on the surface and added dark brown and black bitty pearls on some of the dots in the design. I mounted it on a black mat cut with Spellbinder's Nestabilities Lattice Rectangles. The background dp was also embossed, but it's nearly completely covered, so it doesn't show. The white ribbon is a soft satin, my favorite.

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
ABC Challenge #21 - flowers
Craft Your Passion #153 - ribbons or lace
Creative Creations Challenge #6- things that start with "B" (butterfly)
Flutter By Wednesdays #231 - any winged creature
Pause Dream Enjoy - Anything goes


 

6 comments:

Flutterby Trina said...

beautiful! your colouring is amazing! Thanks for joining us at Creative Creations Challenges with out 'B' challenge - remember you can enter up to three times! Good Luck and hope to see you again soon :) x

Danni said...

Beautiful card! Thank you for playing along with my Flutter By Wednesday Challenge!

Anonymous said...

Just love how you've layered up the image and added pearls to give it dimension.Lovely colouring too on this pretty card.Thanks for joining us at Craft Your Passion.Hope to see you again next week :D
Lisa x

Unknown said...

This is so pretty, I love it, love the colours also
x

Thanks for joining us at Creative Creations Challenges, good luck and we hope to see you again very soon!

Jill DT

Lela said...

Wow! What a lovely card, the butterfly and flower are so pretty! Thanks for sharing with us at ABC Challenge Blog this week

Bonnie Irvine said...

Gorgeous combination of image and die cut frame. The 3D butterfly looks fabulous and the pearls add lovely dimension. Thanks for joining our Ribbons or Lace Challenge this week at Craft Your Passion Challenges. I hope we see you again soon.