Butterflies

Every creation is a journey. I start with the inspiration or idea which today is Tim's March tag for 2016.  I then end up creating many different variations of ideas because I want to explore different avenues and at the end try to bring it all back together into a finished piece. Sometimes I can't end up at a destination but even when that happens I learn along the way. 

 I ended up with two versions of the tags but wanted to explore more because the underlying elements are so beautiful I hated to cover them up.

 Here are my two finished tags. 

 and my second version

 Here are a few of the pieces before assembled:

I die cut a tag using the dies and laid it over a stamped background. Then I used the watercolor crayons to create a mix of pinks, purples and yellows to color the background.

 I also played around with embossing the background with the same dies.  I wanted to see the effect.  A more subtle effect and the white areas don't pop as much.

 I tried something different with the cardboard overlay and painted it white on one of them to bring in a lighter background and on the other I switched out the splatters to pink and white paint to add more highlights. I wish I had tried one more with the white painted background and the light pink and silver splatters.

 Here are my leftover butterflies waiting to be used on another project.

A very fun Saturday morning play session! Have a wonderful day!

Suzz