Butterflies and Flowers...

Over the past couple of days, I have been doing a lot of soul searching and meditating... as well as playing with special things... one of them has been playing with modeling paste and Butterflies... and the other has been FLOWERS... what else is new with me??? 

LOL... I love both of these... so it was a very introspective time... very loving to self to take these times and enjoy something that you just haven't taken the time out to play with also.. .

Well I had these butterflies of Tim's, that I love... but wanted to change them a little bit... so I tried the modeling paste... and made about 25 of them... love each one...  tried all kinds of things, like water coloring them, zentangling them, and leaving them plain and using them as backgrounds... so very much fun... then I started to play with the border Butterflies... and had just as much fun with that... you will see...  I have examples of both... 

Well... after  a few days of this... I needed a challenge to enter... something that would allow me to use these in a way that was not my idea .... but something that I could do with these...  So I went looking... and found another CHALLENGE... 

It is called Frilly and Funkie...  wow... go take a look... all kinds of things... but both styles... FRILLY and FUNKIE... both of the things that are fond to my heart...  so... I had to do something for this ... but since I love both... which am I going to do...  ANYWAY.....the theme is to use bright summer colors and adorn with a FLOWER...  no problem... love this... what fun I am going to have... 

Well for those that know me... I am a little on the compulsive, obsessive side of life... and very prolific in creating all kinds of things...  sort of the have to do it type of thing... just love it all..  and what do you do with all this 'STUFF"..???  ENJOY each and every piece of it... that is what you do... 

Anyway... here is what I created... 

 

For my FRILLY...  Earth Laughs in Flowers... 

Love that saying by Emerson... and so I wanted this to be frilly, but not overly so...  wanted it to look a little fussy/frilly...  and so I used Tim's Die cut was cut on the fold... so that I had a much larger piece of Trellis to play with here...  and then I used a Spellbinder for the 'frame'... to create a garden like feeling... 

 

The top tag is also a Spellbinder and I stamped my little saying on it... along with .... drumroll.... a butterfly...  made with modeling paste.. and then colored in the Tim Holtz way... using my distress inks...   

 

A little closer view and you can see all the raised parts that are randomly done.. and the color the same... 

 

The background was created using my work sheet and then embossing with a Tim Alterations embossing folder... 

 

The FLOWER...  well I used... the TATTERED FLORAL die... is there any other one... love that die cut...  I do have other flower die cuts of tims... but do love this one the best... 

 

I used Dylusion inks... wow... if you ever need COLOR... it is there... one spritz and you are colored...  I used all the reds, pinks oranges and yellows... but I have to tell you that I really love to use the bubblegum pink and the yellow to create color on the paper...  I love the blending of those two... my fav... 

 

I also made a layer of the flower using pickled Raspberries... which goes right along... and then because I was over in the Distress ink area... I also used Ripe Persimmon... oh my... what a color display... it will never come out of my hands...LOL.. I love it all..  So that is my FRILLY one... 

 

 

 

I had to do a Funkie one too... 

 

I used a lot of stencils on this background prior to having fun on the front of this...  I tore up some papers... and book pages and stenciled them... and then also had fun with the border butterflies...  more on that in a while... 

 

 

 

I added a few words... CHERISH EACH DAY.... as each day is so very special and we need to really appreciate all that we had and that is around us in all ways... 

 

 

Okay... back to BUTTERFLIES

I used the border die cut... and cut it out of cardstock first... then a few book pages... then a few butterflies using the shakers and movers.... which are sort of the same size...

 

I added some of each to the original cardstock... and loved what I saw happening... layers upon layers...  I told you I have been playing with these... and had done a few of these... in all different colors...  this one fit the bill to use BRIGHT ... and a FLOWER...

 

I added some of everything to this border... and loved it..  

 

then I zentagnled a little butterfly for the others to follow out of the row... LOL... love to add a little imagination to my things...  

 

 

 

 

So there you have it... butterflies with a FLOWER... 

 

hope you enjoyed these... I sure had a blast making them... and I thank you for this challenge and allowing me to join in...  hope to see you this coming Wed... it is marked on my calendar...

 

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit and hope you all have a wonderful day...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie