Patriotic Butterflies

Hi friends!  It's the first Friday in July and that means it's my turn to host the first sketch in our July series of Viva la Verve sketches.  Come play along for your chance to win some Verve!

I wanted to make some patriotic butterflies, so I stamped the butterfly from Sparkly Dreams two times in archival black and then colored with copics and a white gel pen.  I cut these out with the Butterfly Dreams die set and then layered them onto black die cuts for the antennae and accented with some black pearls.

All the layers of paper are sponged with antique linen and then vintage photo, and I stamped the dream big sentiment in night of navy ink and cut with a stitched circle die cut.  I wrapped some linen thread around my papers and then layered everything together.

That's all from me today.  I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July weekend!

Viva la Verve July Week 1 Sketch

Enabler's List
Stamps: Sparkly Dreams (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Liberty Collection (Bo Bunny, cream (Neenah)
Ink: antique linen, vintage photo distress, black archival (Ranger), night of navy (SU!), copic markers, white gel pen
Accessories: Butterfly Dreams Die Set (A Cut Above by VERVE), stitched circles stax (MFT), pinking circles nestabilites (Spellbinders), linen thread, black pearls (Pizzazz Aplenty)