The blue card started out as a card that I received from Dawn, a Silver Stamper friend. It was so pretty, I decided to make use of the front by removing a flower image in the center and attaching it to the blue cs as a background. Already scalloped, embossed and embellished with the two smaller butterflies, I added the large butterfly and the scalloped greeting.
Using a piece of scrap blue dsp, I die cut the solid butterfly and sponged some Wild Honey Distress Ink in the center and edges. Then I die cut another piece of shiny black dsp for the overlay.
The second card was trimmed with a wavy edger and sponged around the edges with Distress Ink. I added a piece of striped dsp from my scrap drawer on the inside for contrast. The golden poppy was stamped and die cut, then mounted with dimensionals. The greeting (a little crooked, unfortunately) was stamped in black.
For the side view butterfly, I used the SU "Beautiful Wings" embosslit, cut the wings in half, flipped one over on top of the other and taped them together with the bottom one extending out past the top one. The black was punched with a Martha Stewart punch, cut in half and glued on top. The body and antennae were added from another die cut shown in the previous card and glued in place. To coordinate the wings to the scalloped edging, I added dots along the edge with a brown marker.
I resisted the temptation to re-stamp the greeting and mount it over the crooked one. Here's a quote from the Carol Duvall Show which I have posted on my bulletin board: "All things are literally better, lovelier and more beloved for the imperfections that reflect the human effort that went into their making." Well said!
1 comment:
Well said indeed! And I love your butterflies as well as the real ones.
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