Snippets Challenge 437

Hello Playmates,

Di and I have reopened the Playground now that National Mourning has ended, so there's a new challenge for you to play along with at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND, with yours truly hosting until 11am on 1st October.

I made a pink and purple birthday card for someone special. 

I started by adding the gelli-print snippet to the left hand side of the card front. Next, I stencilled on the flowers and dots. Then I die-cut the butterfly from another snippet of the same gelli print, but, when I placed it on the card front (before sticking it down) I saw that it got lost in the stencilled background. 

So, in order to make the butterfly stand out, I brushed pink and purple ink though the negative piece of card left over from die-cutting the butterfly! After that, I glued the butterfly die-cut over the top and doodled inside the lines.

Finally, I drew all around the butterfly in pencil and smudged it with a paper stump - and that REALLY lifted the whole thing - so I did the same to the stencilled dots! I also used a ruler to add lines at the edge of the left hand border. 

Materials:

• SNIPPETS: Gelli print for the right hand strip and for the die-cut butterfly
• SAKURA fine liner pen to doodle in and around the butterfly; the stencilled dots and the left hand edge.
• PENCIL & PAPER STUMP: to make the butterfly and the dots pop!
• DISTRESS OXIDE INKS: Kitsch Flamingo; Picked Raspberry & Wilted Violet
• STENCILS: Doodle Daisies by Zinksi Art from Funky Fossil, plus the negative of the die-cut butterfly.
• DIES: Winnie & Walter Butterfly - or is it Concord & 9th? I can't remember!
• SENTIMENT by Clearly Besotted (2 separate stamps)

Happy crafting!