Butterfly art cards

When I did the Confidence Kickstart class earlier this year, I ended up with an unused piece of paper covered with paint, crayon, fabric scraps, and machine stitching. Rather than let it disappear into the stacks of “collage papers”, I decided to turn it into a set of art cards.

I really like the ATC format — a small 2.5″ x 3.5″ card — it’s super useful for using up odds and ends from other projects, though I have made a lot from scratch too, including a set of Copic-coloured images.

Once I’d cut the paper down to size and glued it to some mount board for strength, I set about working out what they needed to turn them into finished pieces. I ended up selecting a few scraps of paper from my collage stash and tearing them into four so that each card would have the same elements. I also stamped an arc of circles on each one. It needed something else to bring it all together, so I dry brushed some white paint in certain areas, which gives an interesting distressed feel.

The focal point was a 3D butterfly sticker from a couple of sets that I bought in a closing down sale years ago (I still have most of them); the original sticker had a white background but I coloured them blue with a Copic marker. The final touch was the addition of some random numbers from an extremely old sheet of Letraset.

And art cards do have another advantage: they are small and store easily in my art card storage box!