Thursday, May 20, 2010

Embellish Color Challenge With Butterflies

This Friday is the start of another Embellish Color Challenge! Check it out... This weeks challenge is to use the fabulous colors pictured above and to incorporate butterflies into your designs. Our wonderful sponsor is Skipping Stones Design, you really should stop by and check out their great selection of stamps! My challenge card uses the gorgeous Healing Wings set...
Isn't this butterfly image just stunning?! It reminds me of stained glass. I used this image in two different ways. First, stamped it in True Black ink onto kraft cardstock to create a strip of hand stamped pattern paper. Second, to create a focal image...
In keeping with the stained glass idea, I heat embossed the butterfly in black onto vellum cardstock and then colored it using Copic markers. The sheer and shimmery effect is gorgeous in person, but is really hard to capture in a photo. Layered the butterfly over a Mat Stack #1 die cut and three Simply Chartreuse buttons.

I do hope you too will give these fabulous colors a try and join us in this latest Embellish Color Challenge! You can find the challenge and prize details here. Hope to see your creations soon!

Have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend!

Maile

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13 comments:

  1. Maile, yer card is awesome, the butterfly and the stained glass look is genius! I'm totally in on this challenge :)

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  2. Super cute Maile, I love that stamp!!!

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  3. Gorgeous Maile! I'll be having a try at this soon. :)

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  4. Wow, I love the colour combination, your card has just enough black that doesn't dominate, just beautiful.

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  5. wow! your butterfly is absolutely gorgeous, Maile!! LOVE this beautiful card!

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  6. This is gorgeous. I think I will have to participate in this fun challenge.

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  7. Oh so elegant! LOVE the butterfly and the buttons and Kraft stock! :)

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  8. Beautiful card. Love the butterfly image and how you used it as a background as well as the focal image.

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  9. beautiful Maile.. I just posted mine!

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  10. Your card is so elegant, love these colors!

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  11. love your butterfly. the buttons are a great addition too.

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  12. Love the color combo and your design! Pamela~

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  13. Wow, very striking, love this chartreuse color on the buttons and butterfly!

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