
Having finally cleaned and tidied my craft room I am back in creative mode. The card front is a leftover 4X4 piece that I unearthed when sorting through the leftover scraps and putting them away or discarding. The background is something I made last week and set aside for use later. I added a bit more ink to it this morning and then dry embossed it with the brocade folder from Craft Concepts. Sentiment is from a Concord & 9th set left out for me to use, as I’ve an idea for some of the stamps. The butterfly is one from last week and is when I discovered the the die set and the stamp set I thought went with it didn’t match. Seeing as I’m unable to throw stuff away unless deemed totally unusable, I rescued it by adding some colour using mainly Sakura glitter pens and now it looks as though it was supposed to be cut this way. The bling is from the dollar store. The oval shape worked when I put two together as they reminded me of butterfly wings. We have snow today and I can see a lot of fluffy stuff is falling. Hope it doesn’t stick for long.
Lovely I really like the brocade EF. Great butterfly.
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Thanks Judy – this particular challenge site is a good one because it forces me to use my folders.
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Great embossed background for your abstract butterfly. I really like your colors.
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These background colors was done with a brush as I was just using up some leftover ink on my mat. Glad you like it.
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Fabulously fun and colorful card! Thank you for joining our challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure!
Diane CYHTP DT
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Having this challenge is a great idea because it makes me use my neglected EB folders.
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Johanna, this is a great card and I love how you rescued your butterfly. It looks just right. It’s always fun to take a piece or pieces that just weren’t used, or weren’t quite right, play with them a bit and wind up with something even better. You are quite good at that.
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Thanks a lot Golda. I think I’m becoming an expert at using up scraps these days. I’ve saved a lot of small strips from pretty paper or card stock and shall be putting them together somehow soon.
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This is so beautiful. Love that embossed background with that gorgeous butterfly. You are so good at using old scraps.
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Love the colorful embossed background! Thank you for sharing with us at Can You Handle the Pressure Challenge.
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AWESOME! Isn’t it amazing what we can create with stuff we find during a clean up (thanks for the push I need to do that too lol). The background is fabulous and after embossing even more fabulous! Great job! Thanks so much for playing in our challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure … we appreciate your support and hope to see you again next challenge!
Darlene
CAN YOU HANDLE THE PRESSURE
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
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For me this challenge is perfect because I don’t use my folder near enough.
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