Tuesday 19 June 2012

Shine on

Now, we have had some sunshine today but it has been joined by thunder, lightning, torrential rain and......hailstones!  What is going on?  I put the tortoise out in his pen when it was sunny so he experienced the other elements at first hand.  Didn't seem to bother him though.

The challenge at the Less is More Blog this week is to create a card using

Something Shiny

Lots of thinking time needed this week!  I found some gold paper so decided to use this and then there were the unopened Nestabilities label dies that I bought at Craftology in Glasgow a few weeks ago.



I cut a mask with the die first, then placed this over cream card before stamping the image. I used the same die as a template to draw around on the gold paper before cutting with scissors .  This created a larger shape than the die which acted as a border.  I then punched the butterflies from the same gold paper.   This was glued and assembled on  to a cream 15cm square card blank.  I hope this makes sense! 

8 comments:

Deanna said...

Stunning card love the gold effects and design:)

Christine said...

This is super! I love it!
Hug
Christine

Chrissie said...

Lots of lovely shine here... those butterflies look awesome!
Thanks so much
Chrissie
"Less is More"

Jenny said...

You made me laugh about the tortoise.... the image of hail bouncing off his shell is quite amusing :0)
Love the shiny gold mat and butterflies.
Jenny x

Elaine said...

This looks great. Love the shaped mat with it's gold border!

Viv said...

Lovely gold shiny card!

M said...

Beautiful shapes in the middle, and the butterflies compliment the image perfectly! M x

Mandi said...

Super card, love the golden tones
Thanks ao much
mandi
"Less is More"

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