Rustique Butterfly in a Spring Garden: Vintage Journey's Guest Designer

I was so excited to be asked to Guest Design for A Vintage Journey based on my pinworthy December project.

This month's travel case includes:

Product: Something Metal
Technique: Rust Effects (perhaps using rusting or embossing powders or rust coloured paints)
Colour: Lilac or Pale Purple
Substrate: Board (eg grey board, coaster board, cardboard)

That was quite a combination with which to work!  Here's what I came up with:

I started with a harlequin piece of Tim Holtz grunge board this month's substrate.  I inked it with a multi color pigment ink pad, Brilliance twilight a combination of pearly lilacs and lavenders, perfect for the color in this month's suitcase.  Two ingredients down and two to go.

The next two ingredients are metal and rust.  I took a cue from last month's tutorial and created a butterfly with Judikins Rustique embossing powder.  I have more detail on my blog post about this project.  I started with heavy duty aluminum foil die cut and embossed with a Tim Holtz matching set.  I used embossing ink and layered two different colors of Judikin's rust effect embossing powder: azure and jade. 

Here is a die cut butterfly and one I embossed.

I inked it up with Judikins embossing ink and then layered a rustique effect embossing powder.  I layered at least three times with 2 different colors.

The first layer.

I then needed to find a way to combine the two parts of my project.  I thought a nice frame might work and rummaged through my stash.  I love this old frame and I am so happy to give it such a nice new life!  It also gave me the idea of a "garden" since it was already full of greenery and flowers.  I cut down the grunge board to fit the frame and started to embellish.

I wanted to pull more of the colour in this month's suitcase so I added several different lilac ribbons and fibers.  I tied them together with a pretty button and stuck in some pins I received in a swap.

Thanks so much to A Vintage Journey for having me as a Guest Designer this month!

Ingredients:

Tim Holtz butterfly die and embossing folder

aluminium foil

Judkins embossing ink and Rustique embossing powder in jade and azure

Tim Holtz harlequin grungeboard

Brilliance twilight ink

Petaloo flowers and prima leaves

QQ powderpuff chalking inks: Seafoam, Desert Sun

misc ribbon, buttons, pins and pearls

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2016/03/use-your-dies-andor-punches.html until 3/20x

http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.com/2016/03/lets-make-it-trio.html until 3/22 C10x

http://craftingmusketeers.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/welcome-to-challenge-35-use-3-ribbons.html until 3/30x

http://rubysrainbow.blogspot.com/2016/03/ch125-earth-laughs-in-flowers.html until 3/30x

http://wowembossingpowder.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/new-challenge-for-march-and-winner-for.html until 3/31x

http://www.lunagirlmoonbeams.com/2016/03/march-challenge-spring-flowers-birds.html until 3/31 (2/3)x

http://craft-deebowz.blogspot.com/2016/03/march-challenge.html until 3/31x

http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/march-challenge.html until 3/31x

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia