Monday, April 18, 2016

Butterfly Beauty...

Hi Everyone...it's Monday and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog...thank you for joining us for last week's "April Showers Bring May Flowers" challenge...we hope you can join us this week too because...

and the theme for this week is...
BUTTERFLY BEAUTY
and who doesn't love butterflies...
and before we go any further...I have a confession to make...I had every intention of taking step by step photos but got so caught up in the creative process that it was done and dusted before I remembered...so apologies for me just talking you through it today.
I started off by applying a layer of gesso in the centre of a Linen Panel from Idea-ology Textile Surfaces. Then I used the Flourish die from Thinlits Mixed Media 2 to create a panel with paper from the Regions Beyond Mini Stash. I applied Texture Paste through the Brick Stencil from Mini Stencil Set 3 and once it was dry applied a coat of Distress Collage Medium over the entire panel. Then it was time for some Spiced Marmalade Distress Crayon magic...rubbing it in with my finger over the Texture Paste and around the edges of the panel.
I die cut the Detailed Butterflies from paper from Regions Beyond and white cardstock and coloured with the Spiced Marmalade and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Crayons and fixed a Trinket Pin to the body section
I applied Texture Paste through the Bubble Stencil from Mini Stencil Set 5 to create more texture. I then die cut the flowers from the Wildflowers Thinlits set using paper from Regions Beyond and Core'dinations Kraft Core and decorated with a Crinkle Ribbon bow coloured with Broken China Distress Spray Stain.

and added Big Chat Stickers and Alphabet Dice before matting on to black cardstock.
You can find all the products I used over at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp online store...just click on the links below...


Why don't you pop over to the Monday Challenge Blog and check out the amazing creations from my very talented Design Team mates and as always you all have the chance to win a $50 gift voucher to spend at Simon Says StampYou have until Monday 8am Ohio time...1pm UK time...2 pm CET to join in...
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I look forward to seeing what you all create...in the meantime have fun and happy crafting
Hugs Kath xxx