Let Your Dreams Take Flight

Hello there!  My sweet blog friend Lisa and I have decided to do the Make it Monday challenge together.  I have been seeing this bokeh look popping up all over blog land.  I saw a card a while back that Betsy from the PTI design team had done showing how to do this effect on a card.  I loved it so much I had to give it a try.  I used the different sized solid circles in Beautiful Blooms II to stamp my background.

Let me just tell you how much of a pain in the butt these butterflies were.  I die cut these things about 4 to 5 times trying different looks until I settled on these.  I die cut the butterflies, embossed with white embossing powder and then added another layered butterfly in vellum.  I originally embossed on the vellum, but that didn't work out so well.  When I tried to slightly curve the wings, the embossing broke into pieces and looked awful.  I am now wondering if they would have looked better if I embossed them in black instead of white.  Sigh

Cardstock: PTI Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist

Ink: Tim Holtz Wild Honey, Tumbled Glass, Spun Sugar

I played along in a couple challenges:  

Cupcake Inspiration Challenge 222

The Friday Mashup challenge this week is POLKA DOTS

Make sure to stop by and see what Lisa Henke has created.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Heather