Do the things you never thought you could do...

 

Inspired by the The Color Room and CASE Study colours and use of thread, Wida's CASE Study offset angles, teal blue sentiment and large stamped image, and the Take a Word "Book" Collage Challenge. I so wanted to add some machine stitching to this collage, but my machine didn't want to play, so I went with a flight line of thread instead.

In case you are interested, the process went something like this (with drying in between each step):

• Used gel medium to stick down the old fairytale book pages;
• overlaid with whitewash;
• gel mediumed the Cosmo Cricket Junk Drawer strips;
• laid the Tim Holtz mask letters in place and spread a layer of modelling paste over the top;
• stamped this gorgeous Darkroom Door butterfly on tissue paper and gel mediumed in position; 
• once dry, repositioned the masked letters before overspraying with Prima spritzes in soft gold, soft teal and soft red;
• coloured the butterfly with the soft teal spritz then decided it needed a deeper colour;
• infilled the butterfly and "Fly" letters with gelatos; and
• added the thread butterfly trail.

Playing along with All Crafts Challenge Anything but a Card 

and Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge The Artsy Stamp too.

This made me smile