Butterfly Dream

Morning Peeps, today I can share my news and I am so very thrilled to tell you that I am now a full time member of the Chocolate Baroque team. I have been doing GDT spots for a couple of years and since Lesley took CB to Hochanda I have been part of the TV design team and now I am going to have even more opportunities to play with CB's wonderful stamps, so I am well chuffed. 

I have two cards to share with you, the first you will find over at the CB Challenge blog and the second on the DT blog and is one of the samples made for the recent Hochanda One Day Special shows which was all about Butterflies, the stamps were such a success that they sold out twice.

The card at the top of this post follows the lovely colour palette from the challenge and the base has been created with Distress Oxide Inks Wilted Violet and Cracked Pistachio, probably my favourite colours from the Oxide range.

Using black Archival Ink I stamped the focal image from CB Pretty Poppies and sentiment from CB Words of Inspiration and also stamped the large Butterfly a second time and cut out. I bleached out the colour from the focal image and then coloured in with the same distress inks.

To add some interest to the background I used CB Large Crackle Background and the harlequin stamp from CB Decorative Edges stamping just parts of the images randomly and finally using the lid of an embossing powder pot as a stamp added some circles. Finally I coloured the extra Butterfly and placed under the sentiment.

My second card is one of my samples from the recent Hochanda shows which was all about beautiful Butterflies. My starting point was a square of 600gsm Fabriano painted with a thin layer of Gesso, then Oxide inks Wilted Violet and Vintage Photo followed by a mask and texture paste to create the 'flight' of the Butterfly. When dry I replaced the mask to colour using the same inks.

Next I randomly stamped around the edges with CB Large Crackle Background using the same DI and inked a few Butterflies using one of the new CB Butterfly masks. I stamped the large Butterfly from CB Patchwork Butterfly set, coloured with the same Oxide inks, cut out and fixed to the base card. The sentiment is from CB Pretty Poppies set ans finally I added some pearls to the Butterflies thorax and wire antenna.

I wold like to enter this one into the current Butterfly Challenge where the theme is of course Butterflies plus layers and/or the colour cream. Not much cream in this one but hoping there are sufficient layers with the Butterfly ans sentiment.

Thank you so much for visiting and hope your day is a good one.