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Thursday 27 December 2012

Steampunk Butterfly

This card uses the actual butterfly from the set this time (you may recall I made a card withs the rose stamp from the set).  I started by colouring some card with Glimmer Mists and once dry the butterfly was stamped in black and clear embossed before cutting it out - the body was cut out separately and layered.  Background paper was Tim Holtz vintage shabby with some overstamping and the trellis was cut using a Spellbinders die.  The cogs were cut from the same misted card; glitter brads were added to the centres and some copper was rubbed over the embossing. The cogs were cut with X-cut dies and the flourish was a Marianne die.  Sentiment was produced on the computer and punched out.


8 comments:

  1. That trellis looks super behind the butterfly & I love the monochrome colour scheme. The light background for the sentiment draws the eye beautifully & I love your layering of the various cogs - those brads are a splendid addition & a nice understated embellishing touch.
    Paula (PEP)

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  2. This is the first steampunk butterfly I have see Val and its stunning, pleased to see you are making good use of your new cog dies..lovely colours

    Anne

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  3. Lovely shades used. A beautiful card...that butterfly is a stunner. Hope you had a good Christmas, suz x

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  4. This is gorgeous Val, I love all the layering and the monochrome colour scheme

    Jackie x

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  5. A Lovely card and a great steampunk butterfly. Hugs x ChrisB

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  6. Love the colour Val and that butterfly really pops against the trellis. Hope you had a lovely Christmas
    Val x

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  7. This is lovely Val, your colour scheme is gorgeous. Finally got mine onto EZ mount so hoping to have a play with these soon.

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  8. A gorgeous card Val, still not inked my butterfly yet. I love the colours you've used and I really like the cog dies, they are smaller than the spellbinders ones.

    Sue x

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