* Butterfly Girl

Hello

Yesterday was a scorcher (and it's not often you hear that in the North West of England), so hot in fact that I had to stay indoors to keep cool. I spent some time in my craft room getting inky and made this card for the current challenge at Rubber Dance:

I went with the colour challenge.

I made the background from Distress Oxides. I applied colour to my craft mat, spritzed it with water, dabbed a piece of acetate into the puddle and patted it onto my card. This way I built up the colour, drying each layer before adding the next. I used Peeled Paint and Broken China. When I was happy with the background, I stamped some flowers, from the Botanical set, around the edges in Peeled Paint. 

I stamped Butterfly Girl #1 and two sizes of Butterflies from the Antique Botanicals set onto smooth watercolour paper and heat embossed them with clear powder. I coloured them using Arteza Brush pens and when dry, fussy cut them. To hide the core of the paper I ran a black Copic marker around the cut edge.

I stamped the images onto the DO background and glued down the coloured images, leaving the wings free to add some dimension. A Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker provides the sentiment.  The background was edged with a blender and some peeled paint and then I added black ink to the very edge of the background.

The background was placed onto a 6 x 6 inch card base. 

That's all for today!

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Rubber Dance Colour Challenge 30/06
* The Happy Craft Challenge AG 30/06
* A Gem of a Challenge #12 AG 30/06
* Path of Positivity #70 Encouragement 30/06
 
* The Crafty Addicts #61 AG 02/07
* Artistic Inspirations #216 AG 07/07
Crafting from the Heart #246 AG 07/07

* Crafty Creations #393 AG 08/07
* Creative Fingers #167 AG 11/07