The challenge today is to include the elements of new (my grunge stamps), old (my hero arts butterflies), blue (my bg), and borrowed (the use of intense color contrasting with black that Susie Australia uses so beautifully in many of her cards, such as this one here! You must check out her gallery if you have not done so before!)
I rubbed distress inks on my craft mat, spritzed with water and lay/dragged my watercolor cs in/through it until I liked the colors/intensity. Did the same on a separate sheet and stamped my butterflies. Die cut and then spritzed the butterflies with shimmer mist - so, so pretty IRL! Stamped the bg with assorted grunge stamps from my new set, splattered with white acrylic paint as well as some of the distress ink used. Embossed the sentiment in black, assembled.
Registered: May 19, 2005 Location: Kansas Posts: 2043
Fri, Jan 20, 2017 @ 9:37 AM
What a beautiful card; I always love the pop of black with colorful backgrounds, this is gorgeous. Love your grunge stamps!!
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Registered: March 11, 2013 Location: Ingleside, IL Posts: 2449
Wed, Jan 25, 2017 @ 7:45 PM
Absolutely GORGEOUS AND VIBRANT!! Love your combination of the grunge elements with this vibrant bg and butterflies, it does a beautiful job grounding the flowing colors. I love Susie's creations and she is a fantastic inspiration too!
Registered: September 7, 2007 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 122
Tue, Jan 31, 2017 @ 6:57 PM
Beautiful card, love the butterflies and your sentiment. Thanks for joining a2z Scrapbooking.
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Registered: April 18, 2011 Location: Melbourne, Aus Posts: 51844
Sat, Jul 29, 2017 @ 4:58 AM
I don't know how I missed this incredible arty mini masterpiece Maura. I could spend hours and hours exploring your wonderful gallery. Thank you for your kind words too my friend.
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