Birthday Butterfly

In the midst of packing to go away, I had an idea for the current Paper Players Sketch Challenge and I needed a birthday card. So this afternoon, I used my Paul Rubens metallic watercolors to create a “patterned” paper. After dinner, I had time to do the die cutting and assembly. Here’s the sketch:

For the horizontal stripe on the sketch I decided to do a group of score lines. Photographing them at night turned out to be a bit of a challenge. I die cut two small rectangles from my watercolored paper with Ellen Hutson’s “Essential Rectangles” for the vertical shapes and used my favorite Gina K “Master Layout” dies to cut the focal piece and a thin border of metallic silver paper.

I die cut the Simon Says “Stitched Butterfly” from silver metallic paper (so much prettier IRL than in the photograph.) The body of the butterfly was die cut from the watercolored paper as well. Finally I silver embossed the sentiment from The Stamp Market’s “Tons of Type.” The card base is a shimmer paper from Papertrey Ink.

I had to use a desk lamp to get the lighting right to show the score lines. If we weren’t leaving first thing in the morning, I’d be waiting until tomorrow to try again! I’m not sure if waiting until I get to Sarah’s would help or not, so I’m posting it as is!