A little gap

 

I've been really struggling for inspiration lately, so when I see an idea that intrigues me, I jump on it. I found an intriguing idea recently in Mrs. A's current Butterfly Challenge, to make a gap card. I've seen these made with acetate, but she makes them with just the die-cut holding the pieces of the card front together. 

For my card, I followed the directions Mrs. A gives on her blog for creating the gap. I made by central piece with a couple of existing diecuts and some new ones.  I had the bright pink flower and light green vine already and they layered together really nicely.  I used nested dies to cut a smaller shape from a pink gingham snippet of patterned paper and a larger one from a black snippet.  For the butterfly, I used an apple green snippet of card stock for the solid under layer and a snipped of textured gold card stock for the filigree layer. From that, it was a matter of just assembling everything in a pleasing manner.  I decided to just use white card stock for the base rather than doing a layer of patterned paper because there's a lot going on in the center as it is.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Butterfly challenge #150 -- gap card, gingham, colors Granny Smith (apple green) gold, and geranium (bright pink)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge -- layer it up

Pixie's Snippet Playground #394 -- snippets (all the die cuts)

Word Art Wednesday #473 -- anything goes