So, thought I would enter this card into the Craft Barn's other fortnightly challenge, which at the moment is all about "butterflies".
Butterflies are a perennial favourite, and this card uses magazine pages for collage.
The background is part of a text page, and a piece of handmade paper for texture. The butterflies are punched from magazine pages. My butterfly punch is pretty old and struggles with very thin pages, but I found if I punched through the page together with a piece of copy paper, the copy paper gives it something to bite into.
Finally summer seems to have arrived, so hope to see more butterflies!
A power of Butterfly must be -
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And easy Sweeps of Sky -
Emily Dickinson
love the mix of butterflies.
ReplyDeleteFabulous butterflies.... I honestly didn't copy your layout..lol!
ReplyDeleteWhat a good idea to use magazines pages... recycling in action!
ReplyDeleteI have a friend with a much smaller butterfly punch who did the same thing. I think it's a splendid idea. I use a piece of sandpaper as backing for my old punches that stick, so mine must be in worse shape than yours. I really, really like this and it matches my love of recycling, too.
ReplyDeleteHello - what a lovely entry. I love butterflies, too!
ReplyDeleteA very nice mixed media card. The magazine pages made such good butterflies, I love the recycling.
ReplyDeleteGreat recycling.
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