Butterfly

Have been catching up on a couple of challenges. Arty Girlz's theme was Butterflies.

I made an ATC by using paper from the Oriental paper Stack for the background, I stamped and embossed the cherry blossom image in gold and ran the embossing powder round the edge of the ATC.

The fabric butterfly was cut from a piece of material, treated to prevent fraying and mounted onto card.

I used a Gold Pearl Stickle to highlight some parts of the butterfly and finally added a chinese coin.

I stamped the image onto patterned vellum with a Stazon ink pad, then mounted the vellum onto dark grey card. It turned out darker and more severe than I expected (another lesson learnt!) so I decided to contine the 'grey' theme with the words, making the 'stick' shaped like a plant marker (I'm sure Cindy would have been better than me at this!). Finished it off with some funky fibres and a holo butterfly and petal shape in a vibrant colour to try and 'lift' it all.

Another mess made but another lesson learnt!