This week's Inspiration Challenge comes from the super-cool belt buckles of Frankie & Julie. Frankie & Julie both share a love of fashion & art and are always looking for new and interesting ways to combine the two. They also believe that style doesn't have to come with a big price tag. Their goal is to offer fun, affordable, wearable art.
I chose their Carmen Collage Belt Buckle as my inspiration. I loved the contrast of the vibrant red butterfly with the foreign texty background.
I started with a Chinese Newspaper I picked up on my trip to New York. Next, I printed out a butterfly from Katie Pertiet's Lifted Wings No. 3 on white cardstock, detail cut the image, and glued it to the newspaper.
I finished with some Basic Grey Scarlet Letter Paper, a sentiment from Hero Arts, and a few black adhesive gems.
I hope you find inspiration.
What a clever idea to use the Chinese Newspaper for the background (it’s about traffic regulation and motorcycle!)! Love your butterfly!!
Very pretty! I’ve seen Asian newspaper backgrounds used before but yours is over the top with the butterfly image. TFS.
Beautiful card, love the Chinese background paper!
how much do i ♥♥♥LOVE THIS♥♥♥??!?! ok…it’s a trick question b/c it’d be impossible to quantify in numbers that high let’s just say…lottttttttttttts! 🙂 🙂 🙂
(ps: i especially like that the article is about traffic regulation and motorcycles…i think that gives it a dramatic subtext which would otherwise be missing!!!) ♥
I love the way that butterfly pops against the asian text. Very striking!
And… I just wanted to say, I had an AHA! moment when I read the next post… can’t believe I never thought of copy/paste with text pieces! I have some great stuff from Lauren – but was afraid to use it. Not any more! 🙂