Altenew stamps, dies, and butterflies!

 

Happy weekend-eve, Doodlebug friends!  My husband and I are celebrating our 27th wedding anniversary today - for those that know us, you'll also know that having a butterfly on my card is quite appropriate for the day.  My husband lovingly collects tiny little Monarch butterfly eggs to safely 'bloom' them in an enclosure on our front porch! We've added hundreds and hundreds of Monarchs back into nature each year for the last 10 years or so!

Altenew's Leaf Clusters stamps, and coordinating dies helped me create a beautiful environment for this sweet little Dream Big butterfly to land!  Here is how it all came together:

First by determining which branches I wanted in the forefront

then stamping and die cutting them from this 4 x 8.5" panel.

Next, choosing the background branches, and ink colors and stamping

them right over the top of those cuts.

Since my final layers are in shadow, I chose Soft Lilac

to ink them, a soft lavender foam to back my die cuts,

and soft lavender paper to back the panel:

The final touch?  a few Pinkfresh Studio jewels, this lovely butterfly,

and from that same set, a sentiment to live by!

NEWS!!  Doodlebugs just added the Slimline Apothecary Labels set!  

I can hardly wait to make it my own!

I hope you spend the weekend with someone you love doing something that makes you happy - thanks for stopping by!

=] Michele

 

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