Sneak Peek: Take Flight (Free Set!)

Since you've already seen some peeks of "Tropical Flowers", and they go so beautifully with this set "Take Flight" from Gina K, the Free with Three Set this month (they just keep getting better and better every month, don't they?!) , I thought I'd go ahead and use them today on the same sample. Is this new butterfly gorgeous, or what?

I used several shades of light and dark blue and aquas on the wings to give them the iridescent quality of the Morpho butterfly, one of the most brilliant blues found in nature! Then I decided to go ahead and pull out my Brilliant Blue CS( which I don't think I've ever used on my blog!!) and found that putting it with the Bashful Blue mat and Ballet Blue tag, the different shades tone down the base and these different shades of blue really work like the different scales of a butterfly's wings, I like it! The sparkle you see is from tracing the lines with my Blue Copic atyou Spica pen. Bending the wings out from the body and then ends back down a bit before popping it up on a dimensional will make it look like a real one just lit on your card!

I love how the curves of the Labels One Nestie mats echo the butterfly shape. I continued this theme by choosing an oval shape for my greeting and using my corner rounder punch on the base. The flower silhouette is done by coloring my Ballet Blue, Brilliant Blue and Old Olive and Always Artichoke markers directly to the stamp, stamping, and then stamping off to create the lighter bloom on the left. "Dream" was inked up separately from the "Let your (dream)s take flight" quote in the "Take Flight" set, and framed up with SU! Silver Hodge Podge.

Here are more peeks from our designers:

Asela Hopkins
Carolyn King
Donna Baker
Emily Giovanni
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Joanne Basile
Kurtis Amundson
Theresa Momber

Gina K
and Carolina Buchting, our In the Spotlight Designer this month!

See you tonight 7PM CST at the party!! (it's okay, you can be late!) Don't forget to check back on my blog before it starts to see who won my new "Hand in Hand" set! :) (don't know what I'm talking about? Read this, you might still have time to make something and enter!!)