Take Flight

 Happy Saturday!  It's a chilly one here in North Carolina even being the first weekend of spring.  So maybe my card with all it's happy flowers and bright yellow background will coax the temps up!  Trying to get this posted before I set off to Chapel Hill so my son can install a new  hard drive into my laptop.  Thank goodness we still have our desktop!  However, funny how you get so used to one thing, it's hard to switch over!  Worst thing, I haven't been able to access any of my photos or files on my external drive because it is only compatible with my laptop!  UGH!  Again, creature of habit.

Anyway, I made this card using inspiration drawn from the Muse challenge this week.  And I decided to incorporate some things for a few Moxie Fab World challenges, you know, the two birds, one stone thing.

So to begin with, I painted paper.  I used my old acrylic paints to make a graduated background.  Hindsight, I probably should have painted some clear Gesso on afterwards but one thing led to another and I didn't do it.   I started out by stamping the flower image across the bottom of my background paper and I just didn't like it.  So, I painted more paper, stamped and embossed the flowers some more and then cut them out to layer them for a more 3-D effect (see below).
 

I like it a lot better now.  After stamping the flowers, girl and butterflies, I decided to stamp another butterfly on the painted paper and cut it out.  Then, I used a Spellbinders label and die cut a hole in the top of the paper to use the negative of the label.  Next I added the slate blue ric rac ribbon to the top and bottom before adhering it to the white card base with pop dots, lots of pop dots.  Then, I stamped my sentiment inside the negative label with Memento Canatloupe ink and added the third butterfly.

 Moxie Fab World:  The Emphasize the Negative Challenge

Moxie Fab World- The Ombre Challenge

Muse Challenge #9

SPIES:

Stamps: Flowers(Recollections); Butterfly(Inkadinkadoo); Girl(Redhead Paperworks); Sentiment - Delightful Day (Taylored Expressions).

Paper:  White cardstock.

Ink:  Versamark; Cantaloupe (Memento); White emboss powder; Harvest Gold, Lemon Custard, Canary Yellow, Pale Yellow (Folk Art Acrylics); Sunshine Yellow(Adriondack Paint Dabber).

Extras:  Ric rac ribbon; Spellbinders Nestabilities Label #9.