Yes I said challenged, not inspired! The reason for the title of this post is even with the beautiful visual and the great colour combo of Kristina's inspiration for this week, I was stumped. After 4 attemps that landed in my recycling pile and had me up until 1:30am, it finally clicked this morning. Determined that I was not going to be defeated by a little bit of paper and some ink- who am I kidding it ended up being a lot of paper and ink, I gave it a try again and this is what I came up with.
This card is definately not what I had originally in mind when I sat down to create a card for this challenge, but after trying it with several different stamp sets I settled on Great Friend. I don't usually think of More Mustard and Really Rust when I think of butterflies, but I am rather surprised by how nice they turned out. The center butterfly is stamped once in Really Rust on the main Very Vanilla image panel and then again on a scrap piece which I heat embossed with Iridescent Ice. Because I didn't have a Craft Really Rust ink pad I just inked up the image in Versa Mark and then in Really Rust. I just love how this trick can work with any colour, of course the colour is not as rich as it would be with a Craft pad but it does the trick! Also this is a great way to be able to emboss the In Colours as they do not come in Craft. Once I was done embossing I just cut it out, curled the wings up a little bit and popped it on top of the butterfly with a dimensional and then added a cream half back pearl from the Pretties kit for an added touch. The rest of the card is pretty simple with tone on tone stamping on the Basis Gray base and some punched flowers with a few more pearls thrown in.
Hope you are enjoying your day and my new BLOG LOOK! I have to give a special THANK YOU to Michelle from Laycock Designs for my fun new look- in the words of my 9 year old "Mom it looks just like you!",and I guess it does if I was some paper and a few differnt colours LOL!
Stamps: Great Friend
Ink: More Mustard, Basic Gray, Real Rust, Versa Mark
Paper: Basic Gray, More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Really Rus
Accessories: Heat Tool, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, Double Rectangle punch, Gray Taffeta Ribbon
Well, effort really paid off. Your card is beautiful. I love the butterflies and the little flowers with pearl centers, add the perfect touch to an already gorgeous card!
Absolutely beautiful!
Maureen
Posted by: Maureen | 06/22/2009 at 03:01 PM
Awesome layout- great colour choices! Love it all!
PS- including your new sign. and blog header! Very fun!
Posted by: Amanda S. | 06/22/2009 at 03:58 PM
Beautiful card! I love the design and the butterflies! Top pick for sure! :)
Posted by: Winter | 06/22/2009 at 05:02 PM
Way to go Jen, I looked at that challenge this weekend and felt completely overwhelmed. You did a great job. And I love your new header.
Posted by: Sandra | 06/22/2009 at 08:31 PM
beautiful color example for the butterflies. Love it ~Donna
Posted by: Donna | 06/22/2009 at 08:32 PM
Perfect card, love the butterflies and those cute flowers.
Posted by: Jo | 06/23/2009 at 01:34 PM