Penelope’s Flutterbies

AN IRISH BLESSING

"May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun.
And find your shoulder to light on.
To bring you luck, happiness and riches.
Today, tomorrow and beyond."

How about that to start out a beautiful St. Patrick’s Flutterby Wednesday? This is my favorite butterfly quote. I’m working on a Modge Podge butterfly plaque with this blessing on it. It will hang right outside my front door.

Now, on to Flutterby Wednesday! Our challenge this week is to make a St. Patrick’s themed project or to use green as the main color on your project. Also, of course, you must use a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation!

Paper Makeup Stamps is our sponsor this week and they provided each of us with a digi stamp for our creation today. I do have the shamrock digi from PMS but I chose to use Penelope. The photo didn’t come out very well. The colors are so washed out. IRL, the deep colors in the background bring out the soft colors on the image but not so much in the photo. This is also the first time I have ever attempted to color black hair and I think it turned out well. I started slowly with light grey and built up to a color I liked.

The sentiment is good luck in Chinese (according to the website where I got it anyway). I thought that was appropriate for a card made for St. Patrick’s Day. I don’t normally make cards for the odd holidays so I didn’t want to go strictly St. Paddy’s.

If you'd like to play along with Flutterby Wednesday, go check out all of the other lovely DT blogs by clicking on their links on the right sidebar and then go to the Flutter By Wednesday challenge blog to link up your card. While you’re there, be sure to check out the lovely GDT creations.

I have another card to finish up first thing tomorrow featuring a new artist at Squigglefly. I can’t wait to show you! Also, the Squigglefly Challenge blog reached 225 followers so all Squigglefly images are 25% off until April 1. If you’ve had your eyes on some, go get ‘em now!!! They really do have some great images and last weekend’s release was a don’t miss!

Blessings,

Christine

Deets:
Medium-watercolor; Image-Paper Makeup Stamps; Sentiment-computer generated; Ink-Tim Holtz Distress Fired Brick; Paper-DCWV; Punch-Martha Stewart butterflies and border; Pearls-Kaiser.

Challenges:
Cupcake Craft-Going green
Digital Tuesday-St. Patrick’s day or lots of green
Charisma Cardz-butterflies
Lili of the Valley-Easel card
Fussy and Fancy-Green
Clearly iStamp-Green