Tuesday 11 October 2016

AAA Challenge 75

I kept thinking about the challenge graphic at AAA Cards challenge. It was pretty and it was out of my comfort zone somehow. I've never done rainbow colours before.


It turned out to be more difficult that I thought, with a number of false starts finding their way to the bin. I used the dotty background stamp from Timeless Textures and after spending quite a lot of time getting it perfectly lined up, decided that it looked too clinical and then put a couple of random stamps over the top of it. I wanted it to look light and airy, to pick up the polka dots from the inspiration photo but at the same time act like foliage in a tree with dappled light.



I resisted the temptation to add any Wink of Stella, Perfect Pearls or other highlights to the butterflies although I did attach them with glue dots in the centre so that their wings lift ever so slightly off the page.

Ingredients
Card: Wild Wasabi, Whisper White; scraps of Rose Red, Calypso Coral, So Saffron, Marina Mist, Perfect Plum, Elegant Eggplant
Stamps: Papillon Potpourri, Sunshine Sayings, Timeless Textures
Inks: Wild Wasabi, Tuxedo Black
Other:  Bitty Butterfly punch, pearls, dimensionals






3 comments:

  1. This is so pretty--love all those cute little butterflies.

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  2. I think your design is perfect and well thought through, you rocked it and thanks for joining AAA

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  3. Fabulous card! thanks for joining us at AAA Cards!

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