Fluttering butterflies

Good Monday morning all. I am here with my weekly post for Visible Image and some new inspiration. Phew what a hot week it has been but I really must not complain as my garden has loved it.

All my pots of summer bedding are flourishing and are a mass of glorious flowers. 

The bees have been humming around and I have seen lots of butterflies but they seem to vanish whenever I try to grab my camera!

However one found it's way into my kitchen...or perhaps this might be a pretty moth?

My card today was inspired by these amazing insects and the sunny colours in my garden and uses, in my opinion. the best butterfly stamps on the market.  Visible Image have sold these gorgeous butterflies for some years. I got mine when they were sold as individual stamps but they now come in 2 great sets.

I also used the brilliant time swirl as I had the idea to have the tiny butterflies emerging from the end of it. These were the stamp sets I worked with. I have linked to the web site.

Ahead of our time

 Own kind of beautiful

Live life now

Believe in unicorns

I created a distress oxide background.

 ..I love the effects you can get with the Oxides...a real splash of colour here.

 I stamped the time swirl.

 I also stamped and embossed some butterflies on some inky mop up card and fussy cut them out.

I added the butterfly shadow and stamped the small butterfly silhouettes emerging from the time swirl. The sentiment is from the Unicorn set. I stuck the fussy cut butterflies over the shadows which gives such a cool 3D effect.

 I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Frilly and Funkie In the good old summertime

Craft Stamper Take it Make it July

Simon says stamp Wednesday summer sunshine
That's Crafty 2/3 anything goes
Pixie's snippets playground #289/90 I used snippets of card to create my 3D butterflies.

We hope to see lots of you joining in with this month's "A splash of colour" challenge over on the Visible Image Facebook page. You could be the random winner of a £40 coupon to spend on the VI web site.

These are all the Visible Image links;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group can be found here ...it would be lovely for you to join us.  You can add work to the "Show and Tell" album where one randomly chosen winner each month win a £25 coupon to spend on the website. Our monthly themed challenge, "a Splash of colour" runs until 31st July. There is another £40 voucher up for grabs.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are weekly stamp giveaways...open world wide!

And the shop web site is here; where all these gorgeous stamps can be purchased.

I hope you had a lovely weekend? We enjoyed a family BBQ at my daughter's, it was so good to all get together with both sides of the family. It was the 10th year they have hosted it..how the years fly by.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me. Keep cool and carry on crafting.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x