Large all occasion card featuring a butterfly assembled from stamped petal shapes with a stamped border and watercoloured flower embellishment

This is my second card for this series of cards created using stamped petals on scraps from my red scrap bin.  I stamped them in black and fussy cut them.  For this butterfly I diecut a black body using a Sizzix dragonfly die.  I trimmed out just the body and added four petals in two different patterns.  Worked out quite well.  I initially just used double sided tape but when I started working with it I added some white glue where they all join which I held until the glue was dry.  Much better!!!  I embellished the butterfly with clear glitter on the wings and the body.  I trimmed a swirly green and white background and added a couple of stamped flower borders with fussy cut edges.  Then I added a red strip between them.  I added the butterfly with double sided tape and created the flight path using dots made with a black fine tip Sharpie marker.  It still needed a "bit of something" so I dug into my flower stash and found this little stamped flower which I watercoloured to coordinate and then glued in place on the red strip.  That was much better!!!  Glued the background to my card to finish it up!!

Therese
 

Large all occasion card featuring a paper pieced background and daisies in a jar embellished with hand stitching

For my last card in this session I used scraps of decorative paper which I have cut off of stationary which simulated handmade paper with blue inclusions from bachelor buttons.  I glued the strips to a bond paper substrate and then added gray washi tape to the top and bottom pieces to help give some horizontal lines to the whole piece.  I adhered this background to a large yellow card front.  I watercoloured my laser printed image of daisies in a jar (Clipartimages.com) to coordinate with my background and ran my pattern tracing tool on all four edges.  I layered it to a blue rectangle of cardstock leaving a larger margin on the right.  I used an eyelet lace border punch (SU) on the right edge and added one embossed line next to it.  I paper pierced holes opposite of the three created by the punch and then used light yellow heavy weight thread to stitch little chicken feet.  It is fun to add stitching to my cards.  I mounted my focal element to my card using 3D foam tape to give it a bit of dimension.  Therese