Apricot Butterflies

KandA and I are back  to show you

some more inspiration for my 

#55 Butterflies + A is for Aperture and/or Apricot.

The challenge is running for 4 weeks this time

and this is the half way stage.

There is still 2 weeks left to enter your projects.

We would both love to see you over at the 

Butterfly Blog. 

Here is KandA's cards.

Please do pop on over to KandA's blog

for full explanation on how they were made.

Thankyou KandA for coming up trumps with

both of these cards.

I love the apertures on them .

Here are my cards to help inspire you.

I have used a Clarity Stencil 'Poppies' and coloured through 

the stencil  using water colour pencils.

I must admit I'm a tad disappointed with the result.

Firstly as I  still wasn't feeling a hundred percent when I made the card

and then the pencils I was using were only cheap ones

 which kept breaking.  I couldn't get a fine enough point on them.

I will be investing in some dearer ones . You get what you pay for

is a good idium!!

Anyway I diffused the result with a piece of sparkly gauze material

which did make it look slightly better.

The aperture was cut using X Cut Rectangle dies.

The whole thing was adhered to apricot card stock as the base card.

I added an extra strip of cardstock along the bottom which I punched

using my Martha Stewart ribbon threader. 

Decoupage butterfly is more of the ' Tbz -Kaart ' sheets in my stash.

I cut and layered 2 using 3d sticky pads

then swooshed over with a wink of stella pen and sprinkled 

with glimmer dust. I picked out one of the colours from

the butterfly for the ribbon I threaded through the punched holes.

Gems and black glossy sticker sentiment from my stash.

Entering into the following challenges:

Sisters Of Craft # Anything goes.

Petal Lu challenge #14 anything goes.

Crafting With Friends #21 Anything goes.

Creative Fingers #111 Anything goes.

Craft Your Passion #314 Anything goes.

My second card uses a Craft Die by Sue Wilson

'Butterflies in flight'

It cuts like a dream and comes with 4 separate

matching little butterflies.

I have just used two of them  and cut from

the same cardstock that I have backed the trellis aperture with.

I cut the trellis out on cream water colour card.

The design paper was from Making Cards July 2015

 their Busy Butterflies collection. 

All adhered onto apricot card stock

folded to make an oblong card base.

Entering into the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes.

Create and Inspire #47 Anything goes.

Inspiration Destination #88 Anything goes.

Penny's Paper Crafty #280 Anything goes.

A Beautiful Mess #3 Anything goes.

Hope we have inspired you to play along.