'Butterfly Trio.'

Hi there Friends, Followers and Visitors,

Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving such lovely comments.  It is so  nice to get some feedback, good or bad, thankfully, all good lol !  makes all  the effort worth while knowing others derive some pleasure from their visits and hopefully get some inspiration for their creations.   I would also like to welcome my newest Follower  Christine Kiehl,   thank you for following, I hope you enjoy your visits.

Today's card was made for Imagination Crafts, using their beautiful 'Wind in your hair' collection.   For this card I have used one of the gorgeous rice papers and the A4 'Floral cascade' stencil from the Collection, alongside Cadence Malahit textured Relief paste and Dora metallic paints.

 

Take a piece of white card six and three quarter inches square.   Cut out the section of rice paper you want for the background.   Matt this onto the square of white card using the Cadence decoupage glue.

Trim away any overhanging  pieces of rice paper.   Lay the broken diamond part of the 'floral cascade' stencil onto the top right of the background square and cover up the parts you don't want the paste to go onto with  the blue masking tape.   Then spread the Malahit  textured relief paste through the design, using a metal spatula.   Remove the stencil and clean it along with the spatula as they will be used once again.

 Repeat this again using a smaller part of the diamond design on the bottom left, adding the flourish also.   Remove the stencil and leave the images to dry.

When this is dry, lay the script part of the stencil onto the top left and secure with the masking tape.   Stipple the white gold metallic paint through the design, using a stencil brush.   Remove the stencil and leave to dry, shouldn't take long, as these paints dry quite quickly.

 From the second sheet of the same design rice paper, cut out the three butterflies and fix them to some spare white card, using the decoupage glue.

 

Cut out the butterflies.   Paint the butterflies on the background paper with watered down white gold metallic paint

Paint the three cut-out butterflies with some watered down white gold paint and gently shape their wings with your fingers.

Glue these to the original background images, adding a little silicone glue under each wing.

Matt and layer this onto a piece of wine red pearl card, cut slightly larger than the main image, leaving a small border of the red showing.

  Matt and layer this onto an 8" x 8" ivory base card and the card is finished.    Thought I would just show you a close up of the fabulous Cadence textured Relief Paste.......I love the look and feel of this! isn't it fab !   It also has a very subtle sparkle to it.   Looks great with this broken diamond design  I think and it comes in some beautiful colours too for instance - gold, silver and the gorgeous dark orchid.

                                                    

That's all folks, I'll catch you again soon.   In the meanwhile, enjoy your weekend  whatever you may have planned.

                                                              Love and Rainbows,                                                                                                                                     Hugs   Jennifer xx.