Saturday, May 9, 2015

Bright Butterfly

I saw a painting on Pinterest and thought it would make an incredible card.  Quite timely as I had just received a piece of sheet music from a high school buddy--kismet.  I copied the music onto lightweight watercolor paper.  That was easy.  In my head I had planned to use a Memory Box butterfly die and then realized the darn thing was too small so I used my Cameo.  I used rubber cement to mask off the butterfly then applied Peerless watercolors all over the place.  Love!  Rubbing off the rubber cement was fun too.  Sticky but not stick-aye.  The embossed sentiment and enamel dots finished it off.  I'm going to have a hard time giving this one away!

The Details:  Peerless watercolors, Avery Elle sentiment, Versamark, Stampendous white embossing powder, Recollections black and white 110lb cardstock, Cameo, rubber cement, Enamel Accents

I'm entering this in Butterflies #30 J for Jagged Edges, Simon Says Wednesday Let's Get Sentimental, Shopping Our Stash #200 Big, Bold and Beautiful, Crafty Cardmakers and More #138 Make Your Own Background, Seize the Birthday Use the Negative, Just Us Girls #292 Embossing

20 comments:

  1. Holy schmolies this is a whole lot of gorgeousness going on on one card! STUNNING inky background and great use of the negative image!

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  2. Love your gorgeous background! Very pretty card. Thanks for joining us at Just Us Girls!

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  3. Absolutely LOVE this! The watercolors are so vibrant - definitely would not be an easy one to give away :)

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  4. This is so creative, pretty Avant Garde! Thanks for accepting the challenge this week at Shopping Our Stash!
    Hugz,
    Chana, DT

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  5. Woa ... i adore the colors!!! I love the idea! Wonderful!

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  6. So cool and extremely creative! Love the music background with the splashes of color around the butterfly. Thanks for playing with us at JUGS!

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  7. This is AMAZING. LOVE how vibrant the peerless colors are.

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  8. This card is fun. I love the concept and the finished card. I bet you had fun making it too. Kate x

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  9. I love the look of this, such a great technique and such vibrant colors. Thank you so much for playing along with us over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week :)

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  10. Hello Toni and welcome to my Butterfly Challenge. I love your take on my jagged edges theme. Those colours are fabulous against the sheet music and what a gorgeous butterfly imprint. Thankyou for fluttering by my #30 . Hugs Mrs A.

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  11. This is jaw dropping!! The card is a total stunner! Lovely!! :)
    Hugs,
    Suchi xx

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  12. oh *WOW*! this is gorgeous! "big, bold and beautiful" FOR SURE... especially the "beautiful" part! love it! thanks for SHOPPING YOUR STASH with us this week! :)

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  13. This is so beautiful and I love how vivid the colours are! Thanks so much for joining us this week over at Seize The Birthday :)

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  14. This is GORGEOUS! I just got my own set of Peerless W/colours and can hardly wait to get cracking with them, especially after your inspiration! Thanks. Hope you don't mind but I've put a link to your blog on my own here ... http://frankiehelpscraft.blogspot.com/2015/05/bright-butterfly.html

    Kathyk

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  15. STUPID of me I had just copied the link to your own blog!!! DOH!!! What I MEANT was here ...http://www.purpliciousprincessdiaries.blogspot.com/

    Kathyk

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  16. Lovely background. Thank you for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers and More this week. Mary

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  17. Toni this is soooooo very pretty! Love the bright colours! Thanks for joining the Shopping Our Stash crew for our "Big, Bold & Beautiful" challenge!!

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  18. Oh my gosh ... this is GORGEOUS!!!

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  19. A fabulous card. I love the bright and vibrant colours you have used and the music sheet is a great touch. Thanks for joining our challenge at Crafty Cardmakers and more. Sally.x.

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  20. I LOVE this card!!! I'll give it a great home. :) :)

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Thanks so much for your comments. I really enjoy and appreciate them all!