Friday, August 10, 2012

Birthday Butterfly

Browsed through challenge blogs last night while watching the Olympics 
and designed a card inspired by a few.

The design is inspired by The Craft's Meow August Sketch. 
The watercolor background colors were inspired by the latest Runway challenge photo. 
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 I chose the colors from the dress (on my phone the third color looked more pumice, 
but on the computer looks more green, go figure...) and loved the movement of it so 
I chose a butterfly to represent that movement.

For the background panel, I stamped Concord, Pumice and Spiced Marmalade inks onto my mat, sprayed it with water and perfect Pearls and inked up my white cardstock.  
LOVE the look!
I embossed the butterfly on patterned paper and embossed the sentiment on cardstock.





Sketch:


Blooms (in patterned paper)


RIC #17 Inspiration Photo: Carlos Miele


I am entering this card into the following challenges:


Supplies:
Patterned Papers: Lawn Fawn
Stamps: Hero Arts (butterfly) and Craft's Meow (sentiment)
Inks: distress in concord, pumice, spiced marmalade
Other: Embossing powder, ribbon, Spellbinders wonky rectangles, Corner Chomper, Stickles

Thank you so much for visiting!
Kelly

7 comments:

Lisa Carroll said...

This is so pretty! Love the white embossing on patterned paper. :) Thanks for playing along in the Freestyle challenge over at A Blog Named Hero!

Lisa Hjulberg said...

Oh, I love the background you created! So pretty! I must try that technique. Thank you so much for playing in The Craft's Meow August Card Sketch Challenge! We hope you'll join us again!

Karen B. said...

This is beyond gorgeous Kelly! Lovely colors and fabulous use of the TCM sketch!

~amy~ said...

Awesome!!! Love the colors and your use of the sketch! Thanks for joining us at The Craft's Meow!!

Stella said...

Fab use of the sketch and I love that butterfly. Great technique and use of distress inks ( I assume they are distress inks reading their names)
Lovely card!

Jennifer Rzasa said...

I love your watercolored background- it really reminds me of the print in the dress! Thanks for joining us on the Runway!

cheiron said...

Just gorgeous! Thanks for playing along with the Simon Says Challenge Blog this week!