I was supposed to go paddling in the Angel’s Abreast dragon boat today, but I’m not allowed and I can’t go to yoga tomorrow either. I woke up this morning with some issues at the tooth socket and after a visit to the dentist am now stuck at home instead of enjoying the outdoors. Fortunately the issue isn’t serious and the area is healing but my stitches aren’t holding as well as they should so I now have to be extra careful. Hopefully by the end of the week they can come out and I can go back to normal.

In the meantime I’m watching how to videos and making a card or two. I really like watching Natasha Foote and my post today features one of her techniques using bubble wrap. The challenge at Colorful Options called for blue and this is my take on both Natasha’s card and the challenge colours. I found a piece of the larger sized bubble wrap and followed along with the tutorial getting this background. I added a bit of blue embossing powder to the wet areas so a couple of my bubbles change colour slightly but the main colour used was Blueprint Sketch. I cheated a little bit as the butterfly is from a deconstructed card, received from a stamping buddy, as it was too pretty to discard. Thanks Gayle – it really is a lovely butterfly. Various dies were used for the foliage all cut from scraps of white CS and I added the pale gray blue Lavender stems as well. The sentiment is from an MFT set called Itty Bitty Basics and is one I go back to a lot because sometimes a tiny sentiment works best. The texture one gets from using bubble wrap creates a lovely and different background and it is fun to play with too. I really like how this card turned out and plan on doing more backgrounds using the technique.

Thanks for taking a look, it is appreciated. Hubby wants me to make a larger background for him to photograph. He turns them into textures for his photography projects. Maybe I’ll do that next and he can have fun too.