Hi everyone, my stepdad asked me to make a thank you card for the nurses involved in his chemo therapy. He wanted something with butterflies, but on a bigger card.
Luckily I had some 5x7 inch bases to use. It's a bit trickier composing something on a bigger base although this die, which is quite large, fits better than on my regular bases!
For the background I sprinkled brushos in a couple of blues onto watercolour paper and spritzed with water. The butterflies were fussy cut and coloured with inktense pencils. The sentiment diecut is embossed with black sparkle powder, it's nice and glittery in real life.
I'm linking up to the anything goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.
It's also anything goes at Word Art Wednesday.
At Stamplorations, the focus is on sentiments.
I'm also joining a new to me challenge Make My Monday, where the theme is wet or dry embossing.
I've used wet embossing on the butterflies and the diecut sentiment.
Supplies:
Hero Arts antique engravings butterfly stamp; versafine ink & clear ep; inktense pencils; brushos; Memory Box thanks die; versamark ink & black sparkle ep; Simon Says Stamp thaks sentiment stamp.
Thanks for visiting,
Cathy x
Very pretty. Love the brusho background and the space is perfect for the butterflies. Fab sparkle. Hugz
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful, Cathy. The background is super cool. Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful art with us. It's a treat to have you play along. Have a blessed week, and please join us again soon.
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Word Art Wednesday
Hi Cathy, a beautiful thank you card for the nurses caring for your step-dad, love the bright blue background with the golden yellow butterflies... have a wonderful week... Megan
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, Cathy. That blue is phenomenal.
ReplyDeleteUnique and fabulous background, pretty butterflies and such a gorgeous colour way x
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card, the the colour of the butterflies against the blue background. Thank you for joining us at Make My Monday. Emma
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely card, the blue background really makes the butterflies pop.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing with us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. Have a great day x
Such a beautiful card Cathy, the blue background is perfect with the yellow butterflies.
ReplyDeleteI hope your stepfather has a speedy recovery.
Have a lovely week.
Hugs
sharon :)
What a beautiful brusho background! The butterflies just pop against it. I think the nurses will love this and I hope your stepdad is doing well.
ReplyDeleteHi Cathy!
ReplyDeleteYour beautiful brushos background looks amazing! When I look at the card, I see wonderful butterflies dancing in the wonderful summer sky! WOW! Absolutely stunning view.
Lovely background which really shows off the sparkly sentiment. Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card Cathy, love this Hero Art butterly and your blue background is amazing.
ReplyDeleteSuch a gorgeous blue Brusho background Cathy, and love the sweet little yellow butterflies which complement it beautifully. x
ReplyDeleteNoice... Mxxx
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