Butterfly Trompe L'oeil Challenge

 

It is my turn to host the Friday Free For All Challenge in the Embellish-Online.com Forum. In honor of April Fools Day let's make a card that fools the eye in some way. Trompe l'oeil is a French term, meaning fool the eye; it refers to an artistic style popular in paintings, murals and even furniture that involves tricking the eye in some way with optical illusions (for example, a realistic looking vase painted on a wall that "sits" above a real table.

For our purposes, the challenge will be to fool the eye with a technique, stamping, or embellishments. 

Some ideas:

• paper or stamped "ribbon" or buttons
• any faux technique i.e. faux bleach, faux cloisonne, faux leather or hot metal, faux stitching, faux silk. Instructions for these techniques can be found on SCS.

For today's card I die cut a butterfly card using white cardstock, then die cut a piece of BasicGrey Langley patterned paper from the Porcelain collection, which looks like it is watercolored (aha - trick#1).

I stamped the new Prima clear mini stamp, Opus, which is a music sheet print, onto the patterned paper with Memento ink in Rich Cocoa, then spritzed the paper with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Key Lime Pie, a green with gold shimmer, and Cherub Pink, a pink with gold shimmer.

The shimmer is so pretty in person, you can see it in the picture if you double click to enlarge it. It is just to subtle for the camera :(

The sentiment and the bird cage are Porcelain rub-ons, as is the little butterfly on the Heidi Swapp bird mirror. After all, there is a little butterfly in all of us, yearning to be set free, to fly and "bloom".

My second trick on the card is the green "buttons", which are made from Wedgwood patterned paper using a Sizzlit die cut I bought through Stampin' Up!. I spritzed the buttons with Coffee Shop glimmer mist, which is a brown with copper shimmer. Additional embellishments include a Stampin' Up! Button Latte button, Prima flowers and cotton lace trim.

The BasicGrey Porcelain collection, Memento Inks, Prima Stamps and Glimmer Mists (which are on sale) are available in the Embellish-Online store. Use code word GLITTER in the voucher box during checkout to save 20% off your order.

If you play in the challenge link me up, I would love to see your work.

Thanks so much for stoppin' by - have a great weekend!

Comments

[~amy~]

Wowza Suzy...I absolutely adore this!!!!

[Conniecrafter]

so pretty, love the background and the pretty embellishments, so sweet!

[Elena]

Wonderful card! So light and elegant like real butterfly!
Like the challenge too!