Sunday Snippets - 'Butterflies'

On Day 7 of the Gummiapan Easter Calendar, one of the lovely dies in the packet was a very pretty butterfly - and so I made this card:

I used:

- 4.75" x 4.75"  white card blank, side opening

- a snippet of the same white card stock, which I die cut using a 4.5" square die from a 'Stitched Squares' set of dies from 'The Works'. I don't think they sell dies any longer - which is a shame as they were great value for money

- then die cut the circular shape into the panel using Altenew's 'Window Sphere' die 

- next, glued a snippet of 'shades of mauve' paper from Lawn Fawn's 'Watercolor Wishes' ombre paper pad behind the 'Eclipse aperture - using a glue pen right around the circle

- time for the Gummiapan butterflies, which I die cut from a snippet of paper from the Honey Bee 'Team Tie Dye' paper pad and coloured the body with a black Tombow pen

- gently curved the wings a bit and then added the butterflies to the 'Eclipse window' using small pieces of thin foam sticky pads

- the silver foiled sentiment was just added using a glue pen - the ready made sentiment is from a pack by Pinkfresh Studio

 

- final touch was to add the whole front panel onto the card blank, using narrow foam tape to 'lift' the whole thing

Hooray, I took a photo of my snippets - and a TIP, you'll see the butterfly cut into a snippet of white card. It's an invaluable way of positioning solid dies onto most stamped images things,as well as patterned paper where you want to pick out particular areas.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #74 - HERE. The butterfly die was out for its first flutter!

Allsorts Challenge #822 - HERE. The current challenge is 'Inspired by a Song' - and my song is 'Love is Like a Butterfly' sung by Dolly Parton 

Dudley Pupdate: It's been quite a week here and after several sleepless nights all round I finally got Len to agree that he should see a GP. On Wednesday I was sitting at 8am ready for the surgery to open, phone in hand as he could barely speak by then. After being triaged 'remotely by my description of his symptoms' he actually had a face to face appointment at the surgery at 11:30am - and came home with a course of antibiotics - but with no clear diagnosis. He took just two of the 20 doses in the full course and by 10pm we had the beginnings of a miracle as the excruciating pain had almost gone - incredible!  Progress is slower than that immediate improvement but so far it's going in the right direction. Still days to go on the course of pills and I do have a contact for my own needs at the surgery who would raise a repeat prescription request  for Len if needed. Just five days of treatment is a bit optimistic IMHO - particularly as the usual course is 7 or 10 days.

Thank you all for your well wishes last week - so very kind. Dudley has barely left Len's side during all of this needless to say. 

Very importantly, the results of Challenge #502 are now published HERE.

Do please come and play in Sarn's current challenge over in the Snippets Playground - we've had glorious weather for a few days now and of course she's been up to no good. Nothing new there then - once a scamp always a scamp, meant in the nicest possible way! To think that I thought a prefect's badge and finally being my partner in crime sharing the Playground would calm things down. 😰 

Love from myself and Dudley, xxx