Fly Away

Oh dear, I had a project I was meant to finish today, 48 Chirstmas card!!!!!  Been at them for the last three days and only had to assemble them but half way through I got throughly bored - how uprising is that :).  Now I am going to blame Teri of Delicious Doodles for putting up a new challenge today which I had a peek at (no intention of making a card for it today but ......), butterlies, and how I love butterflies.  So I bundled up the Christmas card into four bundles and pushed them to one side to finish tomorrow and indulged in making a butterfly card.  What colour - my favourite - purple, ummmm yep, pink - no did one of those the other day and I don't like pink much anyway, blue - ahhhhhh yummy but I seem to have made a few blue card recently.  What is left - only those hot colours the one group I am never comfortable being around.  I don't wear red, orange or yellow, I don't decorate a room with red, orange or yellow and I don't like colouring in red, orange or yellow.  What the heck, I had decided to indulge in making a card instead of doing what I was meant to do so as a form of punishment I will make a yellow/orange butterfly card. Not really a punishment, I blocked out the fact I was working in these colours and must say I love the outcome but I think that is more to the design idea :)

For this card I used the Spellbinder Grand Nestables Squares and used one of the middle sized to cut the aperture out of the card.  I then printed the Irish blessing on yellow vellum, cut to size and embossed then stuck this behind the opening.  I really wanted a translusent looking background instead of DP for once.  Next I cut three copies of one of the butterflies in Teri's set - Butterflies so I could decoupage it.  After colouring with Promarkers I cut the top set of wing from one butterfly and mounted onto the main butterfly, then the next layer was the body.  To finish off I use bronze embossing powder as an accent.  Now to assemble, I use skeleton leaves which had been coloured yellow through to orange, so glad I had them in my stash as I think they look fab, finally I added a big material flower from a bag of them I bought in some mad moment a few years ago, put in a drawer and forgot about.  Flowers like these are not my cup of tea but today they served their purpose.  Yes, I do like this card, different from my norm but certainly bright and great fun trying a few new things.<g>.

 Ingredients:-

• Yellow cards stock from Craft Creations
• Digi - Butterflies by Delicious Doodles
• Promarkers - Burnt Orange, Ginger, Apricot, Orange, Amber, Gold, Sunflower, Tulip Yellow and Saffron
• Embossing folder - Die'sire  Floral Frenzy
• Vellum, flower, embossing powder and brad from my stash

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

• Delicious Doodles - Challenge #48 - Butterflies (Aug 16)
• Delightful Challenge - Make it Pop (Aug 15)
• Milkcoffee - Show Us Those Colouring Skills (Aug 15)
• C is for Challenge - Fresh and Bright (Aug 15)
• Flutterby Wednesday - Any winged creature (Aug 14)
• Addicted to Stamps - Make your Mark (Aug 14)