Thank goodness it's Friday, although not so good as I woke up at 2am with terrible toothache. One emergency dental appointment later and I have a numb mouth and a temporary dressing and filling and will need a root canal doing. Well, that's assuming I can find an NHS dentist!
A bit of crafting is always a good distraction and so I rustled up a card for the Butterfly Challenge. I've not managed to play along with this for ages and Mrs A has mixed up the rules a bit, to give lots more scope for entries.
I had another play with the Tattered Lace, Botanical Bliss Collection, this time using the Captivating Catmint die. I die cut the coloured printed sheet that came with the collection as I thought that the colour and small flowers would work well with the butterflies. Once cut I glued it onto a 7x7 card blank.
I stamped a butterfly background stamp from the Rare Earth A4 Flower Backgrounds stamp set on white card in black archival ink. I then coloured them in using my zig clean colour pens in pink and purples before cutting them out. I ran one of the coloured pens round the edges of the butterflies to hide the white cut the edge. I shaped the butterflies with my finger and used glue to secure the centre of them, but tiny bits of 1mm foam tape under the wings to keep the dimension.
The butterfly challenge wanted to see pearls as one of their options and after wondering how to add them, I decided to cover them gold/brown frame part of the image with them. Fortunately, I found the perfect pearls glued in strips rather than individually! I was undecided about adding the pearls to the inner frame, but decided it looked better with the, than without.
I found the sentiment lurking in my stash from about 15 years ago and snipped it down and added it on 1mm foam tape. As the card was finished, I decided that the butterflies needed a little shimmer and so I painted them with Windsor and Newton watercolour iridescent medium. Probably easier to paint it on before I stick them on in future!
Such a beautiful card and loving your pretty butterflkies too Cra. Oh my toothache is the worst thing, I do hope you manage to get it sorted and are pain free soon ;) hugs Viv xx
ReplyDeleteThis is really beautiful, love all the pearls and the lovely dies.
ReplyDeleteKath x
Gorgeous card, Cara, love the layout of the design and the shimmering butterflies are beautiful. Hope you get your tooth sorted out soon. xx
ReplyDeleteYour card is beautiful Cara, love the pretty butterflies. Sorry to hear about your tooth hope it soon feels better :)
ReplyDeleteHugs Kaz xx
This card is captivating. I just want to keep looking at it. Love the pearls strung around the framework and the butterflies are beautiful. Thankyou for coming and spinning the butterfly wheel this week. I do hope you get your tooth sorted out soon. Hugs Mrs A.
ReplyDeleteGosh Cara I turn my back and there you are with another gorgeous card. Happy crafty weekend, Angela xXx
ReplyDeleteWow, this is incredible!! What a magnificent 3D style creation you have made, I could almost reach out and touch those floating butterflies! I love how you used the pearls to create a frame, so pretty! Loving this design! hugs :)
ReplyDeleteAnother stunning card Cara. I love your colour palette and layout x
ReplyDeleteHi Cara
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful card. Love the colour of those pearls on the fab frame.
Best wishes.
Ang x
Wow Cara absolutely stunning, I love the colours and design, and the pearl frame is gorgeous, Kate x x
ReplyDeleteStunning card design Cara and love the pearl framing, sorry to hear about the toothache, I am sure once you have the root canal you will be good as new.
ReplyDeleteHugs Diane
Oh poor you, toothache is awful and a root canal no fun whatsoever!
ReplyDeleteLove your card, those pearl strips are so pretty :)
So very pretty and delicate. Gorgeous layout and what a beautiful card x
ReplyDeleteThis is such a pretty card, reminds me of a sunny, spring day!
ReplyDeleteI just love this card, It so spring like and would cheer anyone up
ReplyDeleteLilian B