Beautiful Butterflies

Evening Everyone, 

Well this week has been a strange week, it seems to have taken forever to get to Friday but I didn't get chance to do much crafting.. How does that work?

Anyway the card I have for you today, was actually an order I received of a very close friend. 

The task was do anything but for an anniversary.. So this is what I come up with. 

I have created an A5 card blank, on to this I matted up two layers, the first layer started of a white card piece that I used my distress inks on, well should have only used one colour, but I dropped my sponge in my coffee so had to use the next shades sponge and it slightly contaminated it, but I was actually really pleased with the look and I might try mixing my distress inks together more often see what happen.. Shame about that coffee tho! 

The next layer was a piece of paper from a booklet I got with a magazine I kid you not probably about 4 years ago, it was from Making Cards and was from the Nancy Watt Collection. 

Onto this I matted my "topper" this was created using my Cricut Expression machine. 

I set the machine onto portrait and multi cut, I put the cream card onto my mat and asked the machine to cut three butterflies at 2inches using the Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Cartridge the butterfly I used was from page number 48 of the booklet and I kept the shift key on. 

Once this was done I trimmed the topper down to approx 3 inches by just over 7 and 1/2 inches 

I then matted this onto a piece of scrap paper out of my scrap box that actually worked well with the original backing paper.. It wasn't my original choice of paper but I like it much better then what I had first picked out.. So I was pleased to tell my hubby that, that scrap box of bits is actually useful hahaha. (he rolls my eyes when I shout at him for throwing scrap bits away from the cutting area)

The three pink butterflies were cut again from the Cricut using the same cartridge and the same page number of the booklet, this time I just cut it without the shift key.

To finish of the card I added a sentiment, three pearls to each butterfly, eight gems to the relevant corners and three piece of pastel pink card candi. 

So after all this waffling on here is the card. 

The Ingredients

A5 card blank

Card to layer with - I used white and coloured with Promarkers

Backing paper

Strip of card for topper

Die Cut 3X Butterflies or punch would work

8 gems

9 pearls

3x card canid

Promarker - to colour the butterflies

 The Challenges I am entering this into are:-

Everybody Art Challenge - Scrap Paper #240

Delightful Challenge - Wedding and Anniversaries

Bearly Mine Challenge - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

The Challenge Blog By Creative Shopping - Everything That Flies

Bunny Zoe's Craft - June Challege - Wings

Crafty Boots - Pink Butterflies 
Animal Friends Challenge - Butterfly or Bugs

So there it is, sorry for the long post, I just wanted to explain how I made it. :-) 

Crafty Hugs

Kelly 

xxx