Birthday Butterfly with Coffee filter flower

My friend Yuki (who has every die cut imaginable) was sweet enough to let me use them to cut several things before she leaves for 2 months on an extended vacation. I will miss her! So I cut some purses & some butterfly's- Not really knowing what I would make with them at the time. I just picked some pretty papers that I had brought with me. So the other night I started playing & this is what I ended up with.
I actually used scissors & trimmed the butterfly into this shape (it was a little too big before) I made the flower from coffee filters & used glimmer mist in Scarlet watered down to get the color. The paper for the butterfly is Basic Grey's new Lemonade (dandelion) the stripes are fancypants (lovebird). I actually used my sewing machine on this one, you can see it a little in the close up. I am leaving tomorrow morning to Grapevine, TX for "Heirloom's Rubber Stamp & Paper Art Festival" I can't wait! Hopefully I will see lots of new things & come back with lots of ideas.


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