Visible Image - Gratitude/Reflection

 

Our theme at Visible Image this week is Gratitude/Reflection and my brief is for Clean and Simple. I've been reflecting on the gorgeous summer we've had, and the multitude of butterflies that are still around, so I went with a butterfly-themed card using Butterfly Effect and Butterfly Ink stencil.

Although it's clean and simple, I wanted to add detail in the circles of the large stamp, so I needed to do some masking.  Firstly, I stamped the circles stamp onto my base card.

Using masking paper to cover that image I stamped again, then cut out the circles, keeping all pieces of the stamped image.  I left the large left-hand circle uncovered and stamped the grungy butterfly stamp.

The next step was to cover that circle and uncover the other two, but also keeping the outer areas covered.  I stamped the small butterfly and 'change' word.

Once they'd been stamped, I could remove all of the masking and do some selective colouring of the images using a limited palette.

Then all the circles had to be masked again so that I could stencil the large butterfly over the top.

I used Broken China for the stencilling, fading it towards the centre.

Here's a pic before the reveal,

and after.

 I added Stickles to highlight some areas on the tips of the butterfly wings and some of the small circles,

and added a sentiment to balance the design.

You can find plenty of inspiration an supplies on the Visible Image site here.