Well I started a blog so that I could enter the Challenge but I discovered that I only had one flower stamp from Lavinia which is the tiny flower group so having brought the zentangle butterfly at the Ally Pally show last week I decided to use this to make my main flower
I stamped and heat embossed - in black sparkle - 16 of the right wings!
Then I cut them out and painted them with H2O paints
I then arranged them in a circle and using pinflair glue angled them at a slight tilt - all of this on a small piece of acetate which once it was set I stuck to the backing paper.
I made the backing paper by heat embossing the small flower group onto white card in a variety of different colours.
I then used distressing ink to make the paper blue and sprayed the card with water to give it a slight (and in the photos invisible) mottled look.
I then used fine holographic glitter to pick out the centre of each flower and used a slightly larger grained holo glitter to make the centre of the butterfly wing flower.
Oh, I edged the background with an x-cut punch and square gems and corners with heart shaped ones
What a fab idea and done so well - must have taken ages but so worth it! Thank you for entering the challenge and good luck. Hellen (DT)
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DeleteOh my goodness, I HATE cutting out.....you must have spent ages cutting out these wings, they're fab. So very clever of you to use the butterfly stamp, I would never have thought of doing that. Thank you for entering our challenge at Lavinia Stamps with your lovely card.
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thank you. :) I do a lot of cutting out so it goes really fast these days.
Deletethe use of the butterfly was making a virtue of necessity as I have been dying to do a Lavinia challenge for ages and when I finally get my blog up and running the subject is about Flowers! and I only had the tiny one, so it was ' how can I do a flower?' lol
Love the card Katy - you have obviously got lots of patience. Such a beautiful design. Di xx
ReplyDeletethank you so much :)
DeleteWow, its so pretty!
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Deletenot half as pretty as your work!
What a clever idea! Lovely card. Liz x
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