Butterfly Love

Hi there, I hope your weekend is off to a great start.  Thanks for starting it with my Saturday post for Our Creative Corner.  Again this week, Irena Kowalczyk aka Rudlis from “Love, life and crafts” is our host.  She has a sweet challenge for us this week - butterflies.  Butterflies make me happy; they make me SMILE, dancing crazily in the sunshine in such a seemingly carefree way.  I actually had my butterfly card finished and waiting in the wings for this challenge.  I made it a few weeks back with the wonderful Artistic Outpost March release - Flower Market.  Oooh, that set has so many wonderful images in it.  You already know that the little sweetheart with the butterfly net has become a big favorite of mine.  Now, how about those poppies and the wonderful vintage French style Marche aux Fleurs stamp?  Wonderful, and I used them all for this card.  Once a designer paper addict, I am slowly becoming comfortable with stamping the backgrounds for my cards.  I was taking the Creative Chemistry 101 class the week I made this and decided just to play.  So I stamped all the stamps in Ranger Jet Black Archival ink and sponged it with Broken China and a bit of Scattered Straw, then edged it in Vintage Photo.  A bit of spritz and flick, which I can't seem to master, and my background was finished.  

Next I cut a black panel and a chipboard panel with the Vintage Cabinet card die, which by the way is back in the shop here.  I inked up the Damask texture fade with an Encore Ultimate Metallic Gold pad and ran my black cabinet card panel through it.  What a cool texture that created!  An opening was cut in the cabinet card panel with the large ticket Mover and Shaper die and the Marche aux Fleurs panel was affixed behind it.  Then that entire layer was affixed onto the chipboard cabinet card die cut.  All of my butterflies were stamped on white CS, sponged with Broken China and Scattered Straw ink and fussy cut.    I just felt that it somehow needed more gold so I added the two bright brass pieces of filigree metals.  Oh, and I sprayed the background and the Marche aux Fleurs panel with Biscotti Perfect Pearls before I assembled the entire piece.  I'm sort of disappointed about how this card shows up in the photos because it is really pretty IRL.

I wanted to show how I cut the window in the Vintage Cabinet Card die cut.  I layer two Movers and Shapers together, in this case the Vintage Cabinet Card Die and the Ticket Movers & Shapers Die.  I usually run a scrap piece of paper through first just to make sure the smaller die is centered perfectly and the margins are equal on each side.  I don't know if all the M&S dies work this way.  I have noticed some fit together and some don't.  But when they do, it works so perfectly to cut windows in your larger die cuts!  Both of these dies, by the way, are available in The Funkie Junkie Boutique at great prices.

That's it for my Our Creative Corner piece this week.  I hope you will stop by the OCC blog and maybe even hop through the DT's blogs and leave them some love.  Lots of beautiful butterfly art to see this week!

Artistic Outpost Flower Market	Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink	Broken China Distress Ink	Scattered Straw Distress Ink
Vintage Photo Distress Ink	Alterations Vintage Cabinet Card Die	Multi Medium Matte	Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist
Damask and Regal Flourishes Texture Fades	Alterations Ticket Die

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