The Butterfly Challenge this fortnight is 'H for Herringbone Card, Hemp, Heat Wave, Hansa Yellow, Hazel and a Butterfly'. Mrs A has a few tutorials HERE for the herringbone pattern, something I haven't tried before. Rummaging through my snippets drawer, I found a piece of stripy patterned paper with all three colours in the challenge, a contrasting piece of brown patterned paper from the same paper pad and a snippet of orange card.
Following Mrs A's instructions I made a herringbone pattern and attached it to a rectangle of card (another snippet). I used strips 1cm wide, I think next time I'll use narrower strips. I stamped a sentiment using a brown ink pad on a snippet of white card and punched it with a SU label punch. I drew a few lines on the label with a brown fineliner pen for added interest. I found a piece of hemp, threaded it through the holes in the label and attached it at the back of the herringbone card. I tied a bow with a little piece of hemp and attached it with a glue dot. The sentiment label is raised up with foam pads. The herringbone card was attached to a 7" x 5" card blank with foam tape. I finished off the card with a butterfly made with Poppystamps 'Elsa Butterfly' and 'Lyndon Butterfly' die. All snippets today, except for the card blank, so I'll be sharing my card over in The Playground.
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Great work following Mrs A directions!Lovely result!
ReplyDeleteLovely colors and layout, Liz! The twine is a nice touch too!
ReplyDeleteLovely card Liz. I have this card on my To Do list - haven't got to it yet. Lucky find with the paper having all three colours in it. I like how you used the hemp through the sentiment.
ReplyDeleteLovely card Liz, Mrs A has some awesome tuts. xx
ReplyDeleteThis is a brilliant look Liz and a great way to use up papers from your stash. I think I should investigate some patterns like this as I have lots of papers, but have to admit that I probably haven't used any of them for several years as I tend to make my own backgrounds. I love the mix of colours and the contrasting white die cut butterfly and sentiment mat tied around the card with the piece of hemp. A terrific card. x
ReplyDeleteA fabulous Herringbone card Liz.
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This is very effective Liz. I made one some year back but it was a little time consuming.....Shabneez x
ReplyDeleteI started off with one of the other herringbone designs, but for some reason I couldn’t get it to look right. This one was much easier. x
DeleteBeautiful herringbone design and colors.
ReplyDeleteFabulous card- the herringbone pattern is so effective and contrasts beautifully with the delicate white butterfly.
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Great herringbone card Liz. Love the colour combo you used too.
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Gosh Liz, this is beautiful and so neat and beautiful. Lovely colours too. I'm here with both hats on today so will say - Thank you so much for joining us in our challenge at 2 Crafty Critter Crazies this week. Good Luck and I’m looking forward to seeing you again in our next challenge.
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I have some of that stripey paper in my stash too. I don't think it would have worked so well using thinner strips of it though. Thanykou for coming and spinnig the wheel with me. Hugs Mrs A.
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