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Sunday, February 15, 2015

A Bugaboo Butterfly and Stripes

Welcome

It's time once again for a new CCC Digi Challenge, and this time it is to use a 
digi-image and stripes on your card.

Bugaboo are our wonderful sponsors this month,


and I chose this gorgeous butterfly to work with.


I sized it to what I wanted - one of the joys of working with digistamps - printed it onto white cardstock and coloured it with my Prismacolor pencils, then added stickles for some subtle sparkle. 
 When it was all done (and dry) I cut it with a s/b floral oval die, and sponged with Memento Blue Danube ink before removing the die.


The base of dark green cardstock was embossed using the s/b Lovely Lattice folder, and I then smudged some Inca Gold Silver paste onto the raised flowers.


The sentiment was embossed in bronze, cut with a s/b ribbon label and again sponged before removing the die.  This was then layered with gold ribbon over some striped paper from the Kaisercraft "After Five" pad.


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25 comments:

Dawn T said...

gorgeous card Maxine. Lovely textures and colours.

aussie aNNie said...

Stunning card Maxine, love the embossed background as well.xxx

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JD/ Jill said...

Oh so pretty! I like the image that you chose, and the pretty embossed background!

jimlynn said...

So very pretty! Love your coloring on that butterfly with the Prisma's and also the sponging around the image. Lovely, lovely card!
Lynn

Unknown said...

Hi Maxine,
I love your card. The coloring and layout are beautiful!
Thanks for joining us over at Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends!
Hugs
Sandra (DT)

Shelly Schmidt said...

I love this beautiful image framed in that die- love your sponging in blue and your coloring- perfectly mastered! Such a wonderful card!

Dreja said...

Eine tolle Karte. Danke daß du bei der Stempelsonne mitmachst.
LG Dreja

Bridget Larsen said...

Love that lattice background

Diane said...

Just gorgeous Maxine, love the background and gorgeous image.

Hugs Diane

Lovely Linda said...

This is lovely Maxine - I love the butterfly - digis are great and so easy to work with. Perfect M-Bossabilities too - such a happy card! {{{hugs}}}

Jeanette (Forest Ranger) said...

Maxine, this card is so pretty! I love the way you distressed the embossed piece. Very nice!

ElizabethR said...

Great card and I love the textured background, thanks for joining in the Frosted Designs challenge, Elizabeth x

mamapez5 said...

A beautiful card Maxine. I love all the die cutting and embossing, which team up so well with the pretty image. Kate x

Jennie said...

This is pretty Maxine! Love the distressing and the cute image :)

Planetsusie said...

This is so pretty Maxine, what a gorgeous image and I love the distressed background. Thank you for entering the Crafty Calendar Challenge this month, lots of luck!

Hugs to you Sue Pxxx DT

Karen Letchworth said...

Hello, Maxine! What a darling image and a great card. Thanks so much for sharing your talents with us, and please know how very grateful I am. Have a blessed week, and happy crafting!
Karen
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Becky said...

OH Maxine, this is fabulously adorable. Love the embossing.

Sharon Smith said...

Cute card. Thanks for joining us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends xx

MaryH said...

Awesome pencil coloring on this pretty butterfly, and I like everything you've done to make this digi your own design! (one of my fav S/B's too! so elegant). The paste on the raised embossing really added such dimension to an already elegant emboss, and made for a very wonderful card. TFS & Hugs

Margaret said...

This is so beautiful. You did such a fabulous job with the colored pencils. I haven't used my pencils in a long time and was thinking of taking a pencil class.

Lisa Mensing said...

Very pretty! Thanks for sharing at SCT.

Tindaloo said...

Lovely card and sweet butterfly stamp! :) Thanks for playing along this time at Creative Fingers! Hope to see you next time too! ♥ Tindaloo

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

So beautiful!!! Thanks for playing along with Frosted Designs!!!

Raechelle Bellus said...

SO pretty! Thanks for joining us at Frosted Designs!

Byrd Street Studio said...

Love the texture ALOT! Thank you for joining us at Frosted Designs.