This is my card for today's Holiday Extravaganza. It was such a pretty picture, although with all that silver and snow it didn't look very spring-like to me.
I am always surprised at how few butterfly stamps I have when I need one!
I wanted a fairly textured background and didn't have time to make one, so I thought I would see if I could stamp on this spatter paper successfully, and it turned out fairly OK. I used Versamark and silver EP. Then I cut it with a Nestabilities scallop, and backed it onto white card. Then it's on a rectangle of shimmer silver, with the corners punched and Dew Drops added. I went round the edge with a dark red Sakura Stardust pen, and added some Liquid Pearls to each scallop. The butterfly was stamped with ColorBox Pigment Merlot onto some Basic Grey Eva (thanks again, Stamp Muse ), and I added some Stickles. It's bent up above the body, so the wings stand proud of the card. The whole thing is layered onto some more BG Eva, and then I tied some silver and pale pink organza ribbon in a knot around it.
Thanks for the lovely inspiration piece, Maren.
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008 GMT Views: 768
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 132007
Sat, Dec 27, 2008 @ 12:29 PM
I uploaded the wrong picture. When I saw the Dew Drop had slipped I fixed it and took another. But then I uploaded the first one anyway. I've fixed it, but it will take a while for the new picture to show!
Registered: December 4, 2006 Location: Dreaming... Posts: 4442
Sat, Dec 27, 2008 @ 5:29 PM
Oooh - pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty!!!!! LOVE it!!
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Registered: May 31, 2008 Location: Seattle Posts: 14509
Fri, Jan 09, 2009 @ 7:21 PM
Sabrina, this is perfect the way it is! Love your color scheme! That dp, butterfly image and sheer ribbon are wonderful together! I just love butterflies and your card is terrific! tfs
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