Madame Butterfly...

Good morning everyone and Happy Valentine's Day to you all!!

Thank you for all your kind words and lovely comments on my last post...you know how much it means to me and I was overwhelmed by the response!!

Today, is just a flying visit from me to share another project that I made just before the Doctor rudely interrupted my schedule and told me to rest whilst I recover from pleurisy!!

This is another of my famous record sleeve cards and for those who've followed me for a while, you will remember that I first did this style of card a couple of years ago and I then reinvented it and made another one last month for The Artistic Stamper!! Well, today I'm sharing a DT make for Barbara Gray. Barbara asked me to make a couple of samples for her Clarity Stamp shows in Germany and this is the first of those samples...as always, I hope you like it!!

The stamps I was given comprised of the butterfly and petals and being a vinyl junkie, I thought it would be wonderful to make this card and use Madame Butterfly as my inspiration!

The sky background of the card is created using Distress Inks and I stamped the cherry blossom branch and the butterfly directly onto the sleeve that I constructed from card. I hand painted the images using Distress Marker pens.

 Each of the petals on this flower are stamped and coloured individually using Tumbled Glass DI. I then painstakingly cut each of them out by hand and assembled them to make a dimensional flower.

So, that's it from me for today but before I go...hello to all my new followers and welcome to my blog!!

I'm really looking forward to getting to know you all and to read all your lovely comments!

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's day and you all get spoilt rotten by loved ones!!

Bye for now and see you soon...love Emma xxx