Hi bloggers, this is my card for this months theme, which is a shaped card.
I really wasn't looking forward to this challenge as these sort of cards are way out of my comfort zone, but once I got started and had an idea in my head I really enjoyed it.
I started off with a template of a watering can which I coloured with one of the new distress inks, Hickory Smoke, which is a lovely colour and so useful.
Once I had that done is was time to make the butterflies. I had some sticks which I coloured with various inks, then I stamped lots of different coloured butterflies, cut them out and stuck them on the sticks, varying the lengths of the sticks.
I then stamped and cut out three different flowers to attach to the bottom of the watering can. It needed something else, so I stamped and embossed the fence with white embossing powder and cut this out too.
Then it was just a case of sticky everything together. I was quite pleased with the finished result, although it did take longer than expected. The flower stamps that I used are some quite old Clarity ones, but still very useful. I don't have a lot of the new ones but I like that they never date and I can always do something with the ones I have.
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Hugs,
Amanda xx
