Butterfly in Cream

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #6 - Wings

A very simple cream and gold card is my contribution for the International Art & Soul 'Wings' Challenge.  Sometime ago I bough the beautiful Tatter Lace butterfly die, well I bought two really and to date have not used them (I wonder how many of us have done something similar :) )  The die is so beautiful it really needed to hold centre stage so I opted for a very simple and hopefully elegant card.  The gold sentiment and swirls were stamped onto a mat which I had previously embossed.  Next the butterfly was added and some liquid pearls added to the ends of the wings.  I then mounted this on matt gold paper and then onto my cream card base.

Challenges entered:-

• My Time to Craft 2W #343 - No Designer Paper (W2 of 2)
• Cards und More 2W must stamp C5 - # 182 - Monochrome (week 1)
• Crafts and Me (M, P1, SIO) April - Things with Wings
• Crafty Cardmakers - 2W, C15 - #186 Things with Wings (Week 1)

Tamani

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 260 Theme 

'Anything Goes with WINGS'

Ahhh, wings, so many choices and for me it is always fairies or butterflies :)  This fortnight I have used a Coosty Creations set -  Tamani Digital Stamp and Paper Pack.  I fancied a challenge so thought I would use all four papers that come with this digital stamp :)

I first used one of the papers to create the base mat for my card.  Next I added some lace and used two more of the papers to create border strips one of which I also die cut with a lacy border.  Next I printed the green paper and used it to make my contrasting mat behind the image and also for the base of my ribbon border.  Onto a bit of digital work, one of the papers was used and I then placed the .png version of the file on top of it and printed this twice.  I wanted to try to make the wings appear transparent so first covered them with transparent texture paste, then sprayed them with gold glitter varnish.  Ummm, not quite what I wanted so I then used Ice Stickles and painted them with that and finished off by using gold Stickles for the veins.  Rather pleased with the outcome as they really do look fragile and transparent, just as I imagine fairy wings should be.  On the second printout of the image I coloured the fairy with Promarkers and Polychromos and then fussy cut her out and mounted her in the correct position with foam tape so it appears the wings are truly behind her.  To finish off I made the sentiment and coloured three flower brads with my dark green Promarker and added gold Stickles to them.  All done and I am rather chuffed with how this card has turned out, think I will send it to my Mum as she has fairies at the bottom of her garden :) :) :) 

Ingredients:-

• Image -  Tamani Digital Stamp and Paper Pack

• Colouring medium - Polychromos and Promarkers
• Dies - Spellbinders lacy border edges
• From my Stash - foam tape, transparent texture paste, Stickles, brads, lace

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Hiding in my Craft Room W,1E  lots of layers (about 9 layers)
• Digitally Sweet - M, Digital images/projects - (Does not have to be 100% digital.) - No. 149 - April - Fantasy
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.161 - (W2 of 2) - Green and Pink
• The Stamping Boutique - 2W, (2nd & 4th Friday) SIO - No.80 -  (W2 of 2) -  Flowers
• That's Crafty! Challenge Blog - 2W, E3, Must be a UK resident - (W1 of 2) About Face
• Crafter's Cafe (2W, P1/15, E3, F)  #146 Use some Lace
• Crafts and Me (M, P1, SIO) Fairies and Magic
• Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper (M, P1) Anything goes with Patterned Paper
• Sparkles Forum Challenges (M,P15,3E) #78 Make it Girlie
• Through the Purple Haze 2W, E3, C10 #99 Layers (W2 of 2)

Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)