Butterfly day

I've got a couple of butterfly cards for ya' today. I did color a third one, but it's still waiting to be transformed into something. The two I'm showing are me trying out the feathering technique with my copics (which is one of the reasons why the image is a butterfly as it's easier for me to try out the technique). The other reason for the image is that they make me think of spring and Easter - both of which symbolize new life and new beginnings. The butterfly went from a catapillar to a beautiful butterfly; it was transfromed into a new life. I've been thinking about that lately...



Anyway, back to the cards. The first one is really clean and simple with the stuble textures of the ribbon and the embossed yellow background. I even clear embossed a small Easter wishes saying in the bottom right corner although it's hard to see in the picture.


Challenges used:
Crafty Creations - spots & dots
Belli challenge - sketch
The Play Date Cafe - color challenge (medium pink, pale pink, pale yellow)
No Time To Stamp - CAS texture
Oh Alice - Spring
Stampin for the weekend - Easter
Stampin Sisters in Christ - CAS
Frosted Designs - spring



The second card uses the Martha Stewart grass punch (loving this punch too) and is another fairly CAS card. I used the same dot embossed background on the yellow and made the flower. I thought this would make a nice spring any reason kind of card. The greens were sprayed with Key Lime Pie Glimmer Mist.

Challenges used:

Flutter by Wed - green

Creative Inspirations - white, yellow, green (the white is the ink I used on the blue paper and parts of the butterfly)

Poppy Seed Challenge - buttons, polka dots, light moss

Simon Says - Green

Stamp Challenges - distress something (the flower)

Taylored Espressions - sketch

Just Us Girls - color challenges (lt. brown, lt blue, yellow, lt green)

Our Daily Bread - spring/new life

Rosie D's - yellow, green, white