Honouring Ombre

 

 Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World is to use this inspiring photo.  The challenge is called " Honoring Ombre".

Anyone who knows me well, knows I love working with Purples of every shade and just love Butterflies.  So how could I not join in.

I started by smooshing three colours of distress ink onto my craft mat and spritzing with water and dragging the card stock through it.  I then spritzed it with some gold Perfect Pearls. Once it dried, I trimmed and layered onto the purple card and added the sentiment from Couture Creations and a die cut butterfly from Memory Box.

Also entering into the Anything Goes  challenge at Red Carpet Studio

Got up this morning in time to watch the America's Cup races.  Team NZ 2, Oracle 0.  Great start and after a good win for the AB's last night against Argentina.

Hope you weekend is going well

Tuesday Trigger.... beautiful butterflies

I don't usually enter Moxie Fab World's challenge.. ( daunted by so many more talented crafters there!) but this weeks trigger was a beautiful watercoloured butterfly dress.  And it did inspire me!

I pulled out an older Stamp-It butterfly stamp and inked it up with Brilliance Twilight pigment ink ~ this is a beautiful shimmery ink in pink/purple/blue.  I trimmed it with a Spellbinders die and then distressed while the die was still in place.   I stamped the biggest butterfly again and fussy cut it and added for dimension.  Added some pink pearls and matted it onto some wine coloured card that had been embossed with a butterfly folder ( not that you got to see this in the end) The BG paper is from Hot of the Press.   I added a doily behind the butterfly panel and added a little purple double bow.  As it seem quite busy, I decided to go with the sentiment inside ...

stamped the butterflies again inside with with the Mother's Day sentiment - also from Stamp-It.  One of the ones I got when I went to their store in Perth.  It's an older one that was on sale down from $17.95 to $6.00.   With Mother's Day here in NZ on 13 May, it will be handy.  I'm making some cards to sell at work.

I've started to tidy up ( a continually exercise in my craft space!) and came across a pile of stamped and punched butterflies in a orangey colour so can see another card in my mind... now to get finished tidying so I can get it made.

Hope you have a great weekend

Dawn