Monday, April 14, 2014

Butterfly things! With a sketch! And pastel colours! So many things going on I'm like a multitasking wizard

So I've known about The Card Concept's butterfly theme inspiration challenge for quite a long while (The sister told me that it'd be right up my alley since she knows how much I love butterflies) and even though I add a butterfly to pretty much every card I make I was having trouble coming up with anything that I thought was good enough for a butterfly challenge.

Here's The Card Concept's Challenge #7!


 Since I couldn't really come up with anything I left The Card Concept's card alone for a bit and I started looking at Freshly Made Sketches. I don't recall when I first stumbled onto their blog but I'm quite glad I did! I find I usually need a sketch to start a project (though lately it's becoming harder for me to follow sketches! Maybe I'm losing my crafting touch, who knows. BUT I am pretty good at zombie/alien arcade shooting games! DAVE & BUSTER'S WAS SO MUCH FUN I cannot get over it.) and I quite liked the rectangular-ness Freshly Made Sketches' sketch 131 so I thought it'd be a great place to start!

*FUN FACT* I actually had a dream I was playing zombie shooting games. I was both in the game and the player. While I do love zombies and I love being scared I woke up almost peeing my bed :/ That dream was a whole different level of scary!!! ...But I did wake up wanting to play it.

Here's Freshly Made Sketches #131!

After spending about 10 minutes blankly looking at cardstock I realized I needed help with a colour scheme! I wanted to follow The Card Concept's butterfly colours but I didn't really have any cardstock or ink that matched in a way that ....didn't piss me off (maybe the lighting was off in the craftroom but everything just looked wrong. Who knew there'd be so much drama in card-making!) I remembered coming across Colour Throwdown in another card challenge about two weeks ago (just looking through other entries and reading their posts) so I figured that I'd give theirs a shot. I'm glad I did because this week's Colour Throwdown's inspiration challenge was absolutely beautiful! I'm such a sucker for pastel colours.

Here's Colour Throwdown!
*FUN FACT* Every time I've looked at this picture I started craving mini-eggs
*FUNNER FACT* It's time to take a break from this post to go eat a few mini-eggs :D

So I put all these challenges together and this is what happened. I would classify the card as "Clean & Layered":


I really, really wanted a light, pastel-yellow but unfortunately we didn't have any. This is the lightest yellow we have that isn't ....the colour eggshell, but I do think it's actually quite a lovely colour. I don't think the butterfly is prominent but...I guess I like the card enough to post so oh well.

And now it's time for a nap! I stayed up all night watching Game of Thrones! (the latest episode and random season 3 ones. Oh how I wish I had dragons) I hope you all enjoyed The Purple Wedding as much as I, and the rest of the world did! Game of Thrones, doing weddings right since 2011 ;)

I also hope you all enjoyed Margaery Tyrell's face reactions as much as I did: her expressions give me life. I would watch an entire episode of Game of Thrones of just Natalie Dormer's facial exressions caused by Joffrey antics!

-Happy dreams!

7 comments:

  1. So happy you stumbled across our challenge at Color Throwdown and joined in! Lovely card for all 3 challenges!

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  2. You combined the challenges beautifully! Love the spring colors! Thanks forjoining us at FmS!

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  3. What a sweet card! Love that beautiful butterfly! Great colours! Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

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  4. Love the intricate butterfly with the gem in the middle, and your colors are fabulous too! Thanks for joining us this week at The Card Concept :)

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  5. Very pretty...thanks for joining us for the Color Throwdown.

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  6. Pretty card!! Love the silhouette flowers and your yellow is fine!! Thxs for joining us at CTD!!

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  7. Oh this is so pretty - I love your DSP and the sweet little butterfly you've used! Thanks for joining us at The Card Concept & FMS this week!

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