8x8 Card, Layered/Mixed Media, Butterflies

If you saw my last post, you should (hopefully) recognise this tag.

If you did but you don't, then...  well...  I can either go crawl back into bed and have a good cry or decide that you've had a very long day.  

And if the latter's the case, maybe you should go crawl back into bed and take a nap, or sit down for a bit with a good book to read.
Or...  or...  what do you like to do when you are tired?

My challenge for myself was to take this layered/CAS tag and to turn it into something not CAS at all.  Yet overall, there's still a 'clean' look to this design. 

Let me tell you what I've used...

Supplies Used:

Dies:

Mama Elephant 'Tags A Lot'

Lifestyle Crafts/Quickutz 'Clock'

Poppystamps 'Theo Butterfly'

Sizzix/Holtz 'Tiny Tattered Florals'

Papertrey Ink 'Wet Paint Cuts'

Memory Box 'Peaceful Butterfly Wings'

Embossing Folders:

Spellbinders SCF-002 'Fabric Weave'

Crafter's Companion/Textures 'Wood Grain' (8x8, 5x7)

Crafter's Companion/Textures 'Hessian'

Crafts Too 'Cherry Blossom'

Cuttlebug 'Butterflies 3x3 Tag Team Combo Set'

Holtz Distress Inks:

Frayed Burlap

Walnut Stain

Bundled Sage

Stencil:

Crafters Workshop 'Ferns'

Other:

Crafter's Companion 'Spray and Sparkle' - Pearl Diamond

Ranger/Holtz 'Distress Collage Medium' - Crazing

Pebeo Gilding Wax - Silver

Dew Drops - Clear

Crocheted Lace

Paper Tearing Rulers x 2

Raffia/Thick Paper String - White

Silver Twine

Tonic/Holtz Distress Tool

Paper Punch

 I may have beaten my personal best for how many different elements to incorporate into just one card - and trust me when I tell you that this was not a labour of love, but of sheer grit and dogged determination.  

(Now there's a phrase I'm going to have to try and remember to look up).

I hate being beaten by a card that refuses to 'play nice' - Don't you? 

And I hate how my lace strip in the photo looks like a badly drawn straight line...  which it isn't.

It's as perfectly straight as straight can be.  There are just some very strange optical illusions at play - mainly caused by where the white raffia wraps around the card, I think).

Grrrr...  Maybe my card got it's own back on me after all!

Challenges I'm Entering...

Simon Says/Monday

(Handmade Flowers)

Allsorts Challenge Blog

(Week #406    'Ladies and Girls')

CAS-ual Fridays

(CFC169    'Off The edge')

Use Your Stuff

(#255     'Dry Embossing')

Just Us Girls

(Trend Week #384     'Use A Stencil')

Wishing you a 'Happy' day, wherever you may be...

Donna. x