So excited to post this card! Melody (lacyquilter) and I are still doing our Natural Beauty challenge where we give each other a little nudge to use our mutual, much loved Natural Beauty set. Melody chose the theme this month and it is a recycling for Earth Day.
I started with some corrugated cardboard snipped off a SU! box (some good cardboard). i pealed off the first layer of paper and then painted it white. I added this week's color challenge colors (the closest I could get) and let them all bleed into each other. After that dried, I stamped the panel with the bg stamp in the step - you can't really see it but it is there. Then I took some of the panels inside some of my bill envelopes - those blue dotted or crosshatched liners you see. I colored them up with the leftover colors from my panel. Then I stamped and cut out some butterflies which works for the fussy cutting F4A challenge. I wanted a sentiment so I found an old Blessed stamp from SU! and use it on some vellum. I also tried to do a vellum butterfly painted on the opposite side. The butterflies work for the WT Get Buggy Challenge.
Such a fun challenge - any of you with this set can play with us - just let us know.
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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 @ 5:21 PM
Oh, how Pretty, Nancy! Beautiful use of the corrugated panel and those pretty butterflies made with the inside of an envelope....who would have thought, well, you did! I can see the stamping on the bg just fine.
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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 @ 5:34 PM
Gorgeous card, Nancy! I love the background you created and I love the fact that you and your stamping buddy have private challenges! What fun!
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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 @ 6:59 PM
What an awesome mixed media card! Love the peeled cardboard! The colors you got on it and the other stamped elements I see bits of here and there are really a beautiful base for your butterflies!
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Wow! This is so beautiful!!! I love the colors!!! The butterflies are so striking! Gorgeous card! Oh, how fun to have a stamping challenge with a friend!!!
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Fri, Apr 20, 2018 @ 8:06 PM
I am smitten with your card Nancy! What you’ve done with corrugate is truly a work of art, with colors and subtle script. The butterflies from envelope liner is a fantastic use of recycling too! Gorgeous card!
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