All occasion card with an aperture created by triangles of decorative paper and an embossed butterfly

 I found four of these triangles and after a bit of auditioning found that they created a frame around the edge of my card.  I went looking in my decorative paper stash to find a piece that coordinated.  I found this blue one and added several lengths of white tissue paper just to create some texture.  I found the gray butterfly in my stash and embellished it with some embossing and a bit of sponging to give it some colour.  I die cut the butterfly body using a QuicKutz die from black cardstock and adhered it to my butterfly using white glue.  When it was dry I used a slim piece of 3D foam tape in the center to adhere my focal element to my card front.  I used a fine tip black marker to create a swirly flight path and then decided to add a black wavy border as well.  The marker caught a little on the edges of the paper where they overlapped but I have decided it works with the randomly drawn line.     Therese

Another fabric gift bag

Overnight I remembered that I have this wonderful polyester indoor/outdoor fabric which has very good body and would likely make sturdy fabric bags.  So this morning after doing a few items off of my to do list I thought I would give it a try.  I used one end of a piece and only trimmed to straighten the edges to the grain.  I created it exactly like the last one which you can find here.   It is not quite as large a the last one but as you can see does stand on its own.  I will likely finish off my scraps of this fabric into a couple more bags which I can have on hand for gift giving or just passing on when the occasion arises.  Therese