Butterfly mask

Good afternoon, having a quiet day today after a day out with my gorgeous granddaughters yesterday. We took them to Dreamland,  a retro style amusement park in Margate - they loved it. We had a great time too- reminiscing over what the park was like when we were kids - and the girls were as good as gold!
I made a card inspired by the current challenge at Aurora Wings, the theme is 'Theatrical'. I printed the image out with a deep purple instead of a white background,  used copics for colouring, then coloured over the  mask with a gold sparkle pen. I printed the mask again, cut it out and curved it slightly before attaching it over the original to add some dimension.

 I then played with the  background paper, I used gold ink to stamp the lace in the bottom right corner ( I love this lace stamp!) and some gold leaves in the bottom left corner (hidden by the flowers). I used a diamond patterned stencil and texture paste (top right corner), colouring the paste when dry by lightly skimming over it with the gold ink pad. The edges are distressed and embossed with gold EP and then I sprinkled shabby green frantage around quite liberally! The red flowers are handmade using Heartfelt Creations vintage floret die...they're not actually as dark as they look here and match the flowers on the image quite closely! The doily is embossed with gold EP too.  Loads of messy fun!
Thanks for visiting, have a lovely afternoon!
Chris
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Challenges entered :
aurorawings #34 Theatrical
craftingfromtheheart #123
sparklensprinkle August Challenge
Crafty Awesomeness  Aug Challenge
diesrus - doily and/or lace
pileiton #114 make your own background
welove2create #17