Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Simply The Best

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best and the easiest to execute. I decided to treat myself to a craft mag over the weekend and from the selection I chose one that had a sample version of Serif Craft Artist on CD as its free gift - only belatedly realising that its actually Crafts Beautiful magazine and not an exclusively card making title, oops - and with it a set of free digi kits. The first one I opened is called Inkblot Butterflies (already a winner just from the title!) and one of the backgrounds was this beautiful creation:


Don't u just love an image that you don't really have to do anything to? I printed it out on some vellum and cut around some of the wings to make them stand up. Mounted onto kraft then a cream card base, I first tried to use foam pads but found them difficult to disguise so I balled up some glue dots and made my own card candy (google it, its so easy!) to finish.

I'd like to enter this for St Lukes Challenge - Come Fly With Me! - but I intend to make more of these so not actually sure what style you guys will receive!

Lovingly created and blogged by on

7 comments:

  1. Stamps and Paper21 June 2011 at 22:17

    Gorgeous card and love how your butterflies come out from the corner of your card...lovely colours too.

    Anne

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  2. Deborah Frings22 June 2011 at 07:15

    I love your rabble of butterflies - great collective noun!! The image is really gorgeous. Printing on vellum gives a lovely softness to the image and I like the way you've cut around the wings. Fab!! Thanks for playing along with St Luke's Charity Card Challenge. Hope to see you again!

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  3. Tara Cardwell23 June 2011 at 11:35

    Great submission for our challenge this month - very brave to print and cut out the wings from the vellum - you have more patience than me with a craft knife! Thanks so much for flying with us hope you can join in next month too.
    Best wishes
    Craftilicious
    St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge Founder

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  4. Irene23 June 2011 at 17:50

    A beautiful card.

    irene
    xxxx

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  5. Becky Dunham25 June 2011 at 21:27

    This is absolutely gorgeous! I would love to try this technique. i saw your card on St. Luke's challenge and had to get a closer look :)

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  6. Lynne27 June 2011 at 18:43

    Wow! your card is gorgeous. Love those butterflies swarming over the card. Thanks for joining us at St Lukes charity card challenge.
    Lynne xxx

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  7. Shoshi22 July 2011 at 14:56

    This is really beautiful. Well done finding the free CraftArtist disc in the mag. I've got the full version of the prog and it's awesome - highly recommended. I don't use it as much as I should!

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