Monday, February 13, 2012

Butterfly Camouflage

Happy Monday! Today the Print Candee Creative Team is having a blog hop-woo hoo! You can start at the beginning at the Print Candee blog:
{Me}
We have a local butterfly house, and when you're inside, the butterflies are so thick, they look like camouflage at times. The place is very inspiring! We're going with a die-cuts theme, and I came up with this card:


Dream Big.


I used Adrienne Looman's Photoshop Brush Butterflies available at Print Candee to make the background. I started with a white background in Photoshop and layered the butteflies to make my own patterned paper. I changed the colors, sizes, types of butteflies, and rotated the brushes to give the appearance of flight. When I finished, I printed two copies of the paper.

For the die cuts, I used the second paper and die-cut three butteflies. When I told my husband I had more than one buttefly die, he replied, "Why am I not surprised?" ;) I carefully layered die cuts over the first paper and popped them up with foam dots. Here's a close-up:



I finished the card off with a a die-cut banner, and I stamped the sentiment from Unity. I thought I would enter the card into the Moxie Fab World Die Cutting Challenge. The challenge ends tonight, but there's still time to enter if you get a chance!

As part of the blog hop, we're giving away a couple of prizes: a $10 gift certificate to Print Candee and a set of Spellbinders Lacey Nested Pennants--perfect for making party banners! To enter, you can leave a comment here and all along the blog hop. You have until the end of Saturday night to leave comments to win, and the winners will be posted on the Print Candee blog.

Next up is the fabulous Marion! Thanks for taking the time to visit. :)

29 comments:

lostinpaper said...

IN-credible! I just love those 'hidden' die cuts, they are FANtastic Jocelyn!!!

Jackie Rockwell said...

Very cool technique! The vibrant color is fantastic!

Baby Balloons said...

AMAZING! Your work is just gorgeous! Thanks so much for all you do!Printed BalloonsThank you.

Jen W. said...

This is so awesome! I love your camouflaged butterflies! I am so going to try this out...

lisa arana said...

oh my word! I'm speechless. I seriously do not know what to say to tell you how much I LOVE this!!! Crazy amazing. So thrilled to be on a DT with you Jocelyn!

Kalyn said...

Yay for butterfly brushes! Hehe I love what you did with the collage of them and how you popped up the die cuts!!! Such a unique idea.

~amy~ said...

gorgeous!

Jaclyn Miller said...

Wow - that is a fun and cheerful card!

Annette said...

I am totally stunned right now...this card is so amazing...You always amazing me...your creative it AWESOME...love this..

Emily Leiphart said...

This is incredible, Jocelyn!! I love how you overlaid some butterfly shapes over the pattern you create. The colours are so lovely!

Amanda said...

Trippy! What a fun and creative idea!

onecraftymama said...

Oh, I love how the die-cuts are so cleverly laid over - adds so much dimension & even more "flight!" And the colours you've chosen are marvelous & so cheerful.

Lindsey said...

This is brilliant! How perfect to match the pattern with your die-cut butterflies. Love!

cardsbymo said...

I love your colors they are so bright and fun. But I especially love how the butterflies are flitting in all different directions. They look alive!

Lynnda Hosni said...

Simply gorgeous Jocelyn!! Love the stamping!!! Awesome... Hugs..xoxo

Barb said...

stunning design! just gorgeous

Jenny said...

I love the clever design, those hidden diecuts are brilliant...reminds me of jigsaws with hidden shapes in them :0)
Jenny x

Emma said...

Wow, that is so pretty! The color and butterflies combine so well to make such a gorgeous card! Such creativity!

Auntie Em said...

Oh my goodness! That is so awesome!!!
Great technique. Thanks for sharing! :)

Glenda J said...

Gorgeous! Love this technique and the colours are fabulous.

kasia c. said...

Whoa! Jocelyn, this is incredible! Just gorgeous!!

cassie d'ambrosio said...

Wow! I love this. It's such a cool technique!

Handmade Creations by Stephanie said...

Omg this is so gorgeous wow love it!!!!

Marion said...

Such a great idea Jocelyn! Very creative and fun! Love the background paper you made yourself! It oozes spring!

Puppy Kisses and Paper Dreams said...

I love how the die cut butterflys are definitely camoflaughed, I didn't evensee them until you pointed them out. Very cool! And AWESOME colors! I love this card :)

sandee said...

Oh my goodness, what a stunning card, I never saw the pop dotted butterflies until the close up shot! They were certainly camoflauged!! Beautiful card! waving hi from the hills of North Carolina :)

Angela said...

This card is seriously a knockout -- not only is it gorgeous all on its own, but the fact that you did this digitally? Whoa, you've got skillz!

Off to pin it now -- once I pick my jaw up off the keyboard!

mani said...

colors are always allocated with butterflies , its looking nice in red color.
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Wida said...

I missed this one! WOWee it's so striking!