Butterfly Joy

Having being totally inspired by the Mondocherry ladies, I just had to make myself a butterfly wall mount. (Can this be a Mother's Day present to myself?!) A perfect opportunity to try our Shari Carroll's velveteen technique. So you start with this (plus Distress Ink Pumice Stone, patterned paper in brown and green, and white cardstock - sorry, forgot to put everything there in my excitement!) :

And you get this : 

I made 2" squares which I stamped the script in Distress Pumice Stone. These are mounted on double sided foam. The bottom layer of butterflies (brown) and second layer (green) were cut out with the silhouette using Fabscraps paper. But I wanted to create my own paper pattern for the butterflies, so using Shari's technique I stamped three A5 sheets of cardstock, then cut out the butterflies on my silhouette. Just wonderful as you can make each layer just that little bit smaller than the one below it. Then I decorated the butterflies with May Arts silver white thread, Hero Arts pearls or gems.

Here is a close up of the velveteen effect.

And here it is framed :