A butterfly card

This is a card I made for a friend recently to let her know I was thinking of her.

 

I actually started off with one of my leafy backgrounds. Then I overstamped with the script stamp from Chocolate Baroque Edwardian Gentleman and the stained glass fragment stamps from CB Steampunk Butterfly.

 

I added a foliage stamps from CB Wild Meadow, coloured with a Distress Marker and the Butterfly from CB Butterfly Dreams. I can't believe this is the first time this butterfly had been inked, it certainly won't be the last! I restamped the butterfly and cut out the wing section so I could colour separately which I did with more ink shading and some coloured pencil highlights with my Prismas. I stamped the semtinent on a die cut - this is from a second hand Stampin' Up set I bought at the recent craft show in Portsmouth. I matted onto black as I like the highlight it adds and finished with some toning gems.

 

I hope you are managing to keep cool. I am loving being outside more and enjoying the early mornings with the sun coming through the leaves is one of the things I like to do when I wander around the garden in my dressing gown - fortunately our postman does not arrive early here! This is one of our hop vines taken on one of my early morning meanders this week.

 

 

It is great to spot any new flowers as they come out, like these amazing lilies which are such a deep colour, even bleached out a little in this picture.

 

 

It is great working in my shed when I get the time with the top of the door open for coolness. The fact it is surrounded by trees for shade is a blessing in this weather. It looks like the wrens are back in residence in my craft shed bird house and I did smile the other day when one nearly took a detour into the shed itself while I was playing the Lark Ascending as I worked.

 

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and have a great week!

 

Elaine x