… as if they had surprised a butterfly in a winter wood

I’m sharing a card today featuring a stamp from Magnolia’s first Vintage Box, a lovely wood grain pattern, and a Noor! Design Butterfly diecut.

This card was inspired by the current Fusion inspiration photo.  Rather than a musical background I decided to go with the wood grain.  I embossed this with white embossing powder to create a resistant outline before using some Brusho and Color Burst powder to create the smooshed effect from the inspiration photo.

At Less is More they are looking for shadows so I’ve added in two on my card.  The first is incredibly subtle; in fact, the whole sentiment is almost invisible (turns out those colour powders are harder to control than I thought!).  I stamped my sentiment in Old Olive ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder before shifting my paper ever so slightly to create the shadow in black ink.  I split the sentiment into two; my first stamping (the ‘wish’) was a much better shadow effect than the second.  But then I added in the colour powders and it all kinda didn’t matter so much as I realised, too late, I should have done the sentiment in a contrasting colour.

The second shadow is on my butterfly.  I cut two, one I inked in black and doused in clear embossing powder to form my shadow; the second I left white and covered in some Shabby White Fran-tage for some bling against my otherwise rather grungy background.

The current challenge at Crafting When We Can is CAS so I am linking my card up there too.  I’ve not as much white space as I had planned; again, it was my inability to control the colour powders that is to blame.  I do like the effect though and will definitely be playing some more with these.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Colourcraft Brusho ~ Sea Green

Ken Oliver Color Burst ~ Burnt Umber

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear & Detail White

Stampendous! Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Shabby White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Noor! Design Die ~ 6003/0023 Butterfly

Inks & Paints etc

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black & Old Olive

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bellbird Paperarts ~ Cotton Blend Card

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Always Artichoke

Stamps

Magnolia ~ Wood Grain from Vintage Box 1

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ THJ009 Saying Stuff

Challenges

Crafting When We Can #143 ~ Clean and Simple

Fusion ~ Musical Butterfly

Less is More #326 ~ Lucky Dip Shadow!

Thanks for stopping by!