For Carla's great WTUI challenge which you will find HERE.
I had such fun making this. I used a LOT of masking to create my flower (coloured with pencils), and to sponge and spritz the background. I used the brass template (which I may have used back in 2012) to pierce around the petals, and popped the centre up on foam tape after shaping it slightly. The butterflies are cut from a scrap of gold-embossed tissue paper. I used a Sakura stardust pen and white gel pen to edge the card, and added the sentiment. It was a last minute addition so it's slightly cramped, but I liked it better with it.
I made a matching envelope from some old DCWV paper, using my old Notch and Die tool, which has been in its box for years. I did remember how to use it, but couldn't find the little insert with suggestions. YouTube brought up a video by the Frugal Crafter showing how it could be used for envelopes to create a similar notch to the punchboard. Since I don't have a punchboard this was a great discovery...and as I quite often make custom envelopes, Carla's challenge has definitely given one of my old, unused (at least 12 years) tools a new lease of life. Not so sure about the classy brass, though!!
Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 GMT Views: 1564
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Registered: April 6, 2009 Location: Weyers Cave, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley Posts: 31237
Thu, Jan 25, 2018 @ 1:11 PM
Beautifully colored flower, Sabrina....love the piercing around it! Your bg is lovely too with the water spots on it! I like the addition of those little butterflies surrounding the flower~
------------------------------ ~Roberta
�Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.�
― Lou Holtz
Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Creative Crew SU Design Team Alumni
Registered: May 18, 2004 Location: Southwest Michigan Posts: 37149
Thu, Jan 25, 2018 @ 2:51 PM
How great that you've discovered an old, unloved tool can help you make quick hand made envelopes!
Your vibrant orange flower just jumped out at me today; it's stunning and the piercing around the petals adds a wonderful touch! Beautiful scripture.
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Registered: September 3, 2007 Location: native Texan living in extreme N. GA Posts: 73400
Thu, Jan 25, 2018 @ 4:52 PM
How pretty, Sabrina! Love your bright petaled flower. Hmmm...I have one of those tools somewhere..I'm sure I'll come across it when everything is unpacked.
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28949
Fri, Jan 26, 2018 @ 2:09 PM
So pretty Sabrina!! I love this and that bible verse is perfect with it!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6