Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Belinda Butterfly






















Now that the above ATC has reached it's destination, I can reveal her. I did an ATC swap with Belinda at Metallic Dreams and suggested we use dolls (what else?) as the theme.

Someone gave me this gorgeous piece of orange/rust quilting cotton with all these beautiful butterflies. Right away, I thought "Butterfly Doll". I can almost feel the warmth of the sun when I look at these colours.

ATCs are pretty small and I was just lucky enough to be able to cut out one of the butterflies to fit. When you have such a striking design on fabric, you can't do much to it if you don't want to lose the design. Aside from the beading around the face, I dabbed on some glitter paint and a few hanging threads for decoration, and that was it.

Belinda is such a pretty name. I decided to name her "Belinda Butterfly".

I haven't made that many ATCs, but so far, I have to say, this is my favourite.

5 comments:

Summerset said...

It's lovely! What a good use of the print.

Janet said...

Beautiful Belinda Butterfly!

Jacky said...

Belinda Butterfly is gorgeous! I love the dangly threads too, great touch!

Bel said...

Hi Thank you again for my beautiful butterfly, she is gorgeous and she will take pride of place on my shelf until I start an album as I will be continuing to make atc's they are such fun. Belinda

MARGARET FIELD said...

very nice, love the simplicity of it.