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Cards and other handicrafts made by Jean Straw

Friday 21 July 2017

Birthday Butterflies

This card is made with one of my favourite butterfly stamps from Chocolate Baroque. I stamped it onto white card with Memento Rich Cocoa ink, and coloured it with Derwent  Coloursoft pencils using Sansodor to blend the colours.  I added green and gold shading to the leafy flourish. I trimmed this down and inked the edges with Broken China DI using a foam blending tool, and then mounted it onto dark brown card. I cut another piece of the brown card to fit the front of a 15cm square base card, leaving a very narrow border. I cut a smaller piece of beige patterned paper and and stuck it to the brown card. Before fixing it to the card front I stuck on a piece of printed ribbon tucking the top end behind the card. The main image was also fixed in place. The sentiment is a Lily of the Valley stamp coloured and mounted to match the butterflies, and stuck in place over the ribbon. I am afraid my photography skills aren't up to much and I'm sure the colours looked better than this in real life.

I am entering this at Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes
                                 Creates and Makes - Anything Goes - Create a Sentiment
                                 Really Reasonable Ribbon - Anything Goes With Ribbon
                                 Emerald City Crafters - Anything Goes
                                 Through The Purple Haze - Anything With Wings

Edited to say, That I would like to also enter this for The Butterfly Challenge
where the theme is M for Matching Pairs and/or O for the Colour of Orange Peel  I have used the orange colour and although my butterflies aren't identical twins I think they may qualify as a matching pair. Thanks for heads up Kate.

Thank you for taking time to visit and if you leave a comment thank you for that too, I really appreciate it.

I hope to be back later in the week with a card for the Rudolph Day challenge.

Jean









14 comments:

  1. Those butterflies are just gorgeous the way you colored and blended them! The card design is wonderful with that ribbon tab underneath the sentiment too! NJ!

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  2. I love butterflies on cards and these are so beautiful. Thank for entering in Emerald City Crafts Challenge xxxx

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  3. What a lovely card. It is one of my favourite butterfly stamps too. I love the way you coloured to sentiment to match and even found the perfect strip of ribbon. Lovely! Kate xx

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  4. Beautiful card with lovely colours the butterflies are amazing its all so lovely Love and hugs Carole x

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  5. How pretty Jean and the softly coloured backing paper with the dark brown card gives good contrast, and the butterfly image has been coloured beautifully, and the ribbon goes perfectly. x

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  6. This is so lovely, Jean. I love how the butterfly panel is set off from the rest of the card. Thanks for sharing your card with us at Addicted to Stamps and More.

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  7. I love the coloured butterflies and your ribbon has matching pairs of flowers . This is a gorgeous combination of colours. Thank you for fluttering into the butterfly garden. Hugs Mrs A.

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  8. The butterflies look beautiful, it is a lovely design for your card Jean.
    Yvonne xx

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  9. Hi Jean,
    what a wonderful card and such a great stamped image of those butterflies.
    Your colouring is super gorgeous, and so pretty.
    Lots of crafty love. Jenny L.

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  10. Your butterflies look positively real, Jean! It's a stunning and serene birthday card!! Hugs, Darnell

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  11. Hi Jean

    What a beautiful card.

    Your gorgeous butterflies match your ribbon perfectly!

    Hope all is well with you and have a good weekend.

    Love Jules xx

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  12. What a beautiful card this is Jean. I really like the way you've coloured the butterflies and sentiment to match the ribbin. That is a lovely butterfly stamp, Barbxx

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  13. This is a fabulous card and a great addition to our challenge. Thanks for joining us at Really Reasonable Ribbon. Huggs from Ginny from Polly's Paper

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  14. Beautiful butterfly card! Thank you for joining us at Really Reasonable Ribbon challenge this week!
    Hugs
    Cheryl

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