Butterfly Bunny

Hello friends,

Sometimes its is hard to choose a favourite colour – I like to work with blue, ivory and cream and all the autumn colours. This week’s challenge at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge blog is to use the colour green and I decided to give it a go. I chose this adorable Penny Black bunny sitting in a lettuce (or cabbage?) watching the playful butterflies – he really looks at home! This image reminds me of a Beatrix Potter character.  I also took out my sewing machine (haven’t used it in years so at first a huge search for the machine oil to get all those parts running smoothly again) to do the stitching instead of the easy way of faux stitching with a pen. The tension still needs adjustment to sew paper but I liked the shabby way of the stitches on this card. This effort was worthwhile as I discovered that at Sundays with Chrissy Challenge they want to see stitching on a card. The tag is a Marianne Design Creatables die recently purchased at the Hobby X show in Johannesburg. For South African crafters Country Crafts  in Randpark Ridge stock a variety of Marianne Design, Joy Craft and Nellie Snellen dies in their online shop.

Hope you like the card. I entered my butterfly bunny at the following challenges:

• Penny Black Saturday Challenge Week 142 (ends 03/19) – Green
• Sundays with Chrissy #15 (ends 03/31) – Stitching
• Card Makin Mamas Challenge  #16 (ends 03/18) – Something Green
• Allsorts Challenge Week 94 (ends 03/19) – The Luck o’ the Irish or Lots of Green
• Lollipop Crafts Challenge Challenge #30 (ends 03/21) – Let’s Make it With Lace!
• Wild Orchid Challenge 19 (ends 03/28) – Dieing to Punch It Out
• Delicious Doodles Challenge #16 (ends 03/17) – Use Green for Saint Patrick’s Day
• Sentimental Sundays #46 (ends 03/19) – Let’s Go Green (the sentiment is on the inside, 2nd photo)

 To match the outside I decorated the inside with the same tag and a Lili of the Valley sentiment:

List of  goodies to create the card:

• Cream cardstock
• Designer Paper
• Penny Black stamp ‘Butterfly Bunny” 1439E
• Lili of the Valley Calender  and sentiment stamp
• Cotton lace
• Fancy pins
• American seam binding “Cream”
• Paper roses
• Pearl hearts
• Marianne Design Creatables die
• Derwent Inktense watercolour pencils
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink “Tea Dye”

Sending wishes from South Africa and have a wonderful week.

Amelia