Spoonflower Contest - Butterfly Coordinates

It’s hard to believe that the last Spoonflower contest I entered (Mermaids) was way back in May!  I’m pleased that I have a little more time available at the moment so I can enter some of the contests again.  This week’s theme was ‘Butterfly Coordinates’ and involved designing 4 coordinating prints on 1 yard of fabric.  I decided to use my existing butterflies design (top left) and create 3 more designs to coordinate with this.

You can see all the other entries and vote for your favourites here:
http://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=316

Handmade Birthday Cards

Spring is a busy time for birthdays and other card giving occasions in my house, so I thought I would share a couple of cards I made recently.

This fishy card was for my Dad’s birthday.  I used some backing paper from my set of Fish scrapbooking papers and fish from my collage sheet printed onto card.  The vallis leaves were cut from coloured paper and I made the design more 3D by sticking the fish on with foam pads.  Finally, for a bit of sparkle I used some translucent sequins…

I’ve made a few variations of this butterfly card recently (this one was for my sister’s birthday)…

I love the pearlescent pea green card blank I used for this design, unfortunately it’s a discontinued colour so I won’t be able to get any more :(  I printed one of my butterfly patterned papers onto sandstone coloured card and the butterflies and message were printed on card from my butterfly collage sheet.  After cutting the patterned background to size I coloured the edge with a gold inkpad.  The large butterfly was attached with foam pads and the small butterfly glued to the card along its body, with the wings slightly folded up for a 3D effect.  I also used some pretty yellow and blue gems to finish the card.

Have you bought any of the printables from my shop to use in your cardmaking or craft projects?  If you have I would love to see what you make with them!  Leave a link to your photos in the comments below :)

Butterflies Printable Wedding Stationery

I’ve been working on some butterfly themed designs and have just finished the first set of products featuring my new drawings!

While researching butterflies to draw I found some beautiful species – I love the colour of the blue Ulysses butterfly and the patterns of the Monarch butterfly (above).  All of the butterflies were drawn in pencil first, then scanned and coloured digitally.  I’ve been using the drawings to create patterned papers as well as a variety of other printable products.  This wedding stationery set is the first of my butterfly designs to be finished and listed in my Etsy shop...

The stationery set includes an invitation, save the date card, rsvp card and thank you card.  I really like the simplicity of these designs and think they would be lovely printed on textured card stock.

There are 5 different butterflies to choose from;

* Cairns Birdwing (green)
* Ulysses (blue)
* Monarch (Orange and Black)
* Postman (Red, Ochre and Black)
* Peacock ( Red with eye spots)

This set is available to buy from my shop, the invitation, save the date etc can also be bought individually.

Butterflies and Buttons Treasury feature

I've just seen that my set of 2 Hexley badges has been featured in a treasury on Etsy. The theme of the treasury is 'Butterflies and Badges' and was put together by juliafinucane. You can see the treasury on Etsy here (until Wednesday).