Die cuts and punches for The Craft-Room challenge DT

Well another 2 weeks have flown past and it is time for another challenge over at Craft-Room challenge and this time it was my turn to choose the theme.  I use so many die cuts and punches on all my cards that I thought this would be a great challenge, and easy to do, but because I chose the challenge and felt I wanted to do something special I found I had my first case of Cardmaker's block!  In all the years of making cards I  have never struggled for a theme or style before.  So I dug out all my dies and punches(they wouldn't all fit on my table!) and came up with the creation below, I hope you like it :o)

No DP's for this, just 2 xcut die cut circles, one pink(embossed) 1 back (plain)  I have inked the base card with pink and black.  I have used a die cut butterfly that comes in 2 pieces to create the butterfly and inked the white section with pink and used gems to decorate.  (I don't know who created this die, but it is a thin die)

Side/inside view

Close up of the butterfly

Die cut and punched flowers, leaves, butterflys and swirls with black gems as the centres and a black velvet covered brad for the centre of the largest one.

The 3 larger flowers are marianne design die cuts and the smaller flowers are xcut punches.

I will be entering this card into the following challenges

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://flutterbywednesdays.blogspot.com/  open

http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/ Winged things

http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

 

Thanks for stopping by

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NIKKI