myasperations 3-11-24

My first card for this post is for the Butterfly Challenge, one of my favs! The challenge sponsor, Mrs. A, is offering a few changes for the new year. Each challenge will incorporate a letter/sentiment as one of the themes, and will include six colors from which to choose. The current challenge has a technique that is new to me, creating a cloisonne by embossing onto a magazine or similar type of photo. I was excited to try it… until I discovered that my heat tool has gone “walk about”! I looked for it for quite a while with no luck. But… in the process, I found an unopened package of dainty gold rub-on butterflies… which I think might have even been in one of the wonderful prize packets from Mrs. A (the sponsor of the Butterfly Challenge!) I used an old calendar with colorful pictures, and although it took a bit of experimenting, I ended up with several that look a bit like cloisonne! I wanted to make a really feminine card to enter into We Love Stamping Challenge, so used some delicate dried flowers (dried violets and other blooms from my flower garden in South Dakota about 15 years ago). Paired with doily, pretty patterned paper, gold trimmed ribbon from my stash, and computer-generated sentiments the finished card has a wonderful Victorian feeling!

My card includes three of the featured colors- Camel (dried flowers), Cerise and Cornflower Blue (butterflies), and three of the featured themes- Faux Cloisonne, Circles (the doily, patterns in the doily, and dotted swiss paper) and Butterflies.

Supplies: 

·   Gold Butterfly Rub Ons- (a gift from a past challenge, I think it might have even been from this wonderful challenge host!)

·   Sentiments- Computer generated.

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  Butterfly Challenge

Butterfly Challenge- #193-C is for Cloisonne Technique   

The Paper Shelter- In a Garden

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #637-638

We Love Stamping-Feminine  (optional AG)

Double D’s Challenge- First Signs of Spring 

Paper Funday- #63 Anything Goes      

Since I was running late at getting things posted last night, I added the next two cards to my Pinterest page. Decided to also post them here... so today's blog is aflutter with butterflies!! 

I need to get to work... but will return later today to fill in supplies used on these cards. 

   This one features four of the required colors- Blue, Camel, Cerise, and Celadon, plus circles, butterflies (a small one on the inside made with the cloisonne technique), and Congratulations.

   This one features the following colors- cornflower blue, celadon, cerise, and canary plus the themes- congratulations, circles, butterflies, and cloisonne technique.