5/20/2014

A miracle has happened

MIRACLE, my husband, who usually has little interest in whatever I do in my craft room, has asked me to do a card for the daughter of one of his friend who would be nine soon.

He wanted butterflies (he wanted butterflies??????). He wanted sparkle (he wanted sparkle????).

Please undestand my shock. My husband is a minimalist architect. Nothing is simple enough. Nothing is white enough.

This explains his lack of special interest in my crafting. If I would do only white cards, than maybe..... And God know I do love CAS myself and always find my cards (and paintings, and ceramics) are not simple enough....but....

Anyway, I thought I would take the opportunity and do a third card for the current Addicted to CAS challenge (Over the edge).

By the way, he was happy with the result!!!!!

This card was also the opportunity to test different supplies for watercolouring. I tried Inktense pencils, Lyra Aquacolor pencils and Caran d'Ache Museum. All are great but Caran d'Ache has won my heart.

And here is the card. I have done also a video on how it was done (complex, belive me!). I will post it as soon as I had time to edit it. Stay tuned.





6 comments:

  1. I think your card would satisfy any minimalist.... :-) There is still lots of wonderful white space and I love how you clustered the butterflies off the edge. Fabulous job! So glad you joined us at ATCAS this week
    Jaydee

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    1. Thank you Jaydee, happy to see the result worth it. it wasquite a hassle cutting just the edges of the dies and keeping the card size (card size + butteflie over the edge dosen't pass through the Big Shot). So I needed to use my own architect abilities. :) But I suceeded in doing thiis in one layer, without any additions, so I'm happy

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  2. This is a really brilliant design for the Off the Edge challenge, Ileana (sorry, I keep putting two ns in your name). Your design has created such lovely movement with these beautiful glittery butterflies! Sometimes our husband totally surprise us! Hugs, Darnell

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    1. As I said on the other card, I quite like my name with 2nn, don't worry. Could use it as my card making artist name, ha! Thank you for all kind words

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  3. wow this is beautiful, love the bright and colorful butterflies ! Thank you for sharing with ATCAS!

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  4. I love this! The bright colors are so much fun and what little girl doesn't love some bling! Awesome card. Thanks for playing along at ATCAS. :)

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