Lavender and Lace

Hi All
Hasn't the weather been glorious today, maybe we are going to get some summer after all!!
One of the cards that I have had to make recently is this one ordered by a lady who comes into the BP garage where I work.
Her only request was Yellow, Lavender and Butterflies so I immediately thought of this lovely Clarity Montage stamp.
For once I was actually sensible and found my papers first instead of trying to match my coloured image to my papers. Who knew lavender was so hard to match up!!

The background papers are all from my stash and the inks were Dusty Concord and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks.

 I decoupaged the central butterfly and painted the tiny ones on the panel with thin undiluted bleach.

The Montage stamp has matching single butterflies which I am lucky enough to own, so I added a couple of them as well as a flower, lace and some die cut leaves.

I found some tiny butterfly charms in my stash and an appropriate greeting.

I never realized  I had so many butterfly related items lol.
I hand delivered the card on Monday, so no need for a box Gilly, it was actually surprisingly flat.
I would like to enter it into the following challenges
Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes with Flowers
Make My Monday - Use Lace and/or Ribbon
Incy Wincy Designs - Bring on Spring
Hugs Kimx

Glorious Gold Leaf

Evening Everyone.
OK, I admit it, the weather today has been all my fault, but at least I have been able to work with my Gold Leaf without wearing quite so much of it lol.
I have just finished my prep for class on Saturday. I still have to write the instructions, but I can do that tomorrow morning, when I'm not at work :O)

 I have used the Gold Leaf and Sticky Embossing Powder on this card and the tag for their book.

The stamp is the amazing Stampendous CRR164 Cling Tree Poem. It was one of those 'Must Have' stamps as soon as I saw it.

Once I had covered the stamped image with the Gold Leaf I created the background using Decorating Chalks applied with a cotton wool ball.

The Tag for their book was made in the same way, just in different colours.
I would like to enter this into the following challenges
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
Woodware Challenge - Colours of the Earth
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Metal Mania (I hope that Gold Leaf counts)
Off to bed now, more crafting to do tomorrow.
Night night.
hugs Kimx