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Once more time is moving faster than me - not hard for it to do at the moment, thanks to an ambush by a ceramic pig - it fell from a cupboard, skinned my shin and now I am sitting with my leg up... the pig survived unscathed!! The ultimate irony.
Today's card was for the small swap group I am in, and the challenge this month was to use three textures... I think I managed...
I started with a piece of card that I had stamped off a back ground text stamp, then smooshed in 'overspray' of mica powders and paints on my work surface...
(the faint stamping has not shown in the photos, but it is there :)
I used an old NBUS stencil to stencil the butterflies with gold paint mixed with iridescent medium, but it was not satisfactory at all, I then sprinkled over sparkly gold embossing powder and heated it - which made the butterflies bubble and puff up - a bonus texture
The flower started as a snippet of white copy paper, brushed with red, orange and yellow inks, die cut and pleated before being drawn up into the flower head. I used a button for the centre of the flower. The stem was some green cord, with a flat green ribbon twisted around it - the leaves were trimmed out of a snippet of green card
The sentiment was silver embossed onto a snippet of metallic blue card, torn down one edge, then mounted over burlap (ribbon), trimmed to fit.
The final detail was the torn corrugated card with some lace layered over it across the base of the featured panel - the panel was then mounted over a deep green base
The inside was stencilled with the same butterfly stencil using the residual green ink on my 'green' brush.
The envelope was stamped with an old wood mounted stamp, using a kaleidoscope ink pad.
I padded the card front with bubble wrap cut to fit around the flower - I just hope it arrived without being too squashed!
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Snippets used were copy paper (flower), blue sentiment panel and green leaves