Butterflies and Pattern building by Rachel

 Hello there,

Rachel here today with three cards from the February shows - two of these feature the flower-butterfly stamps whilst the final card is a pattern builder using one on the worker stamps from one of the other flower-butterfly stamp sets.

In this first one I have used the Briar Rose Butterfly set as the main focus but I have also used stamps from the make your mark set too plus one from the Harlequin Fragments set and one from the Ephemera 2 stamp set. These stamps were used to build up a clean and simple collage design.

In this second card, I used the Thistle Butterfly stamp set to build up a scene on a piece of card I had already layed down a basic landscape using inks and stencil brushes with a masked sun that was inked in later. The stamped image was coloured using a combintion of mica powders and watercolour brush pens.

This final card was built up using a single stamp from the Honeysuckle butterfly stamp set which was stamped onto a pale coloured stencilled background.

I hope you have a great day - I'll be at work but with any luck it will be a good day too!

Big hugs

Rachel xx