Hi, friends! I'm happy to be back near the end of a busy week which didn't allow much time in my craft room. I feel much better having finished these two clean and simple cards.
When I saw the Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge with the optional twist of butterflies I immediately pulled out one of my oldest embossing folders. It's still such a pretty thing!
Firstly, I embossed, then watercolored with Stampin' Up Cameo Coral ink on hot press watercolor paper. The fine lines and dots were colored with a Copic marker. Also, the insides of the butterflies' wings were done with gray Copics which gives them that soft, almost vellum-like appearance. All the dots were sparkled with Stickles Diamond glitter glue.
I somehow managed to smudge the sentiment with my fingers and then transferred more smudges here and there on the card front. Hence, four extra dots were punched and added. Can you spot them?
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| Darice Butterflies in Corner embossing folder Altenew Wishing You sentiment |
I'll be sending the first card to the following challenges:
Neglected Stuff -- It's been years since I used this Butterflies in Corner embossing folder.
Card #2 was not destined to happen until I saw Michele's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. I always love their sketches, but a one week challenge is difficult for me to manage unless all the stars line up just right. In this case I had an extra embossed panel of Cameo Coral which I'd cut down for the spare parts drawer.
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| Memory Box Wooden Alpha Tim Holtz Sizzix Snowfall embossing folder |
I flipped the sketch to the opposite side, and my butterfly curve is a border rather than a free-standing element, but I hope it's still okay. I brought the Snowfall embossing in from the side which looks very cool in real, but sorry it doesn't show up more in the picture.
Here's the challenge link and the sketch:
Well, this was fun! I appreciate how challenges bring out the old familiars from my toybox. Thanks, everyone! Have a great weekend!
1 comment:
Wow, both cards are stunningly beautiful, so soft and dainty and so pretty in pink! Thanks so much for joining our challenges at The Neglected Stuff AND Can You Handle The Pressure, don't forget our Triple B challenge, you could enter there too! Can you believe I 'almost' made it to the end of the month without ordering a thing, but it was a small order of only 3 things I surely couldn't live without!!
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