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Friday 15 April 2011

Home-Made Flutterbys

Happy Friday fellow bloggers, i bet we are all looking forward to the weekend. I am because it means my Thommas will be home from his holiday on Monday :D i cant wait to see him.
Anyway on with my card.
The challenge at Passion For Promarkers this week is to make your own embellies, you can find it here . This is the 1st time i have entered a challenge on this blog, I'm so enjoying all these new challenges and finding all the wonderful blogs out there.

The flower is a digi image, sorry i cant remember where it comes from, i really must start saving them with where they come from. The purple one is coloured with Lilac, Lavender & Amethyst Promarkers. The yellow one with Vanilla, Pastel Yellow & Mustard and the blue flower with Pastel Blue, Blue Pearl & Cornflower. I am very happy with how they turned out and think i must be starting to get the hang of using my pro markers correctly.
Now the embellies that i made are the super sparkly butterflies, or flutterbies as they are called in my house. I started off by doing a quick doodle of a butterfly shape, then refined it a bit, cut 3 out of medium thick white card and set to with the pva and glitter.I left them to totally dry overnight and then added some flat backed pearls for the bodies.
I used a cream textured dl card and added a 3cm wide strip of pastel striped paper from my stash across the middle, stuck the flowers on with foam pads and added the sentiment which is from a freebie magazine set. I didn't want the butterflies to be flat so i slightly bend their wings up and stuck them to the card at a tilt with super fast tacky glue.
I am really happy with this card, and don't really know why as it looks quite plain and simple, but i really like it.

Kate xxx

I would like to enter it into these challenges:
http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/04/week-95-theme.html

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-7-glitter-and-shine.html

http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/challenge-148-springtime.html

http://stampinsanity.com/2011/04/sisc55-flower-power/

13 comments:

  1. Beautiful card Kate, they are flutterbies in our house too. good luck with the challenge Hope your son brings you something nice home, have a good weekend ...Chris xx

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  2. Great card Kate! I love your sparkly flutterbies!!! Good luck with your first challenge! Thanks for joining us for the Little Miss Muffet Glitter and Shine challenge!

    Arabella

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  3. Beautiful Kate lovely butterflies and the colouring super. Thanks for playing Love Cynthia x.

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  4. Hi Kate, firstly welcome to our challenge! What a gorgeous card. I love the flower image and your colouring is perfect. Your handmade flutterbies are beautiful. Thanks for joining us at PFP this week. Hugs, Denise x

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  5. Hi Kate. Love your hand made butterflies and the flowers ar fab coloured!

    Thank you for joining our challenge at PFP:=)
    Hugs from Heidi

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  6. Hi Katie, fabulous hand made flutterbies and your flowers are beautifully coloured.
    Thanks for joining us at Rainbow Lady's Challenge this week. Christine x

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  7. Gorgeous card. Love it. Thanks for joining us at PfP.
    Hugs :o)

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  8. great card kate thanks for sharing with us at rainbow lady's challenge this week good luck. Elizabeth x

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  9. gorgeous card kate.i love your butterflies and stunning vibrant colours.
    thanks for joining us this week at PFP :D

    xx coops xx

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  10. Lovely flowers and butterflies. Thank you for joining us at Rainbow Lady's this week.
    Jen x

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  11. Great flowers and butterflies. Thanks for joining us at Rainbow Lady's this week.
    Jenny x

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  12. Beautiful creation! Thanks so much for playing along with us at StampIsanity this week :D

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  13. Such a fun card and I love the element of three! Thanks for playing along in the Little Miss Muffet challenges this round! :D

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xx thank you for all your comments xx

 
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