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La Bella Factory Tour

A perceptive tour of the La Bella Plant in Newburgh, NY.

A Good Try

Hi, a few weeks back Jacksonbelle had posted that she was looking for a Drawing Team. I thought I'd try out for it, and so I am going to show you the 2 cards I made for the submissions. I didn't fill out it...but, at least I can say that I tried!

For card #1, I bought this butterfly fashion in an Inkadinkado set from Jacksonbelle's store. I got the objective to cut it out and use only one of the wings, so it looked as if the butterfly was landing-place on something. I wondered what for awhile, and then came up with a outlook. I already had these Heidi Swapp acrylic letters, and the Boxer 6x6 pad - so I glued each spell out to some of the Boxer paper with Crystal Effects, and cut and sanded where needed. After that, they were adhered to the pallid cardstock and I rounded the corners. The Rust cs from SU was a capable match to the flowers in the patterned organ, so I used that as the mat, and once again rounded the corners with a it. I picked out this soft blue cs for the stand, and decided to stamp the butterfly on it as well. Once stamped, I colored the 'corpse' black with a marker and cut out. I knew the antennae would be finicky to cut, so I tried inking it up with a black marker and stamping unswerving to cardstock. It gave me a faint tack, but didn't go so well over the 3 layers, so I traced the muffled line with the fine tip end of the same marker. Only the majority is adhered so that the wing stands out. The irrevocable touches to this card was the...

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