Earning Our Wings

I'm always a little worried when it's Jane's turn to Dare - she's set some stinkers since the DCM started last October and you never quite know what tangent she'll go off on. This time she said:

"So here is is....you can do any subject but the card has to
incorporate WINGS of some sort
So you can do - butterflies, angels, fairies, insects.........birds........anything basically as long as it has wings.
Good luck and may you all FLY HIGH, ladies."

Honest;y if you could see some of the dire cards I've made (and binned) in the past in an attempt to use some of the butterfly and dragonfly punches, dies and other pretty embellishments I've bought or acquired - crikey - I've even got rubber stamps for goodness sake!
Other people make lovely cards featuring these pretty creatures, so why do mine always look like a dog's breakfast?

No way was I going down that route - I'd just embarrass myself. Needed another plan.

By chance I've recently added some paper clay to my toy box so looking through the moulds I already have from playing with fimo and friendly plastic I found a butterfly/angel one (yes - another attempt to make something respectable with a butterfly on it), and various other letter moulds, shells, hearts etc so I spent a happy hour pushing the clay into all the moulds - I'm sure they'll all come in useful one day (yeah right!)

The paper clay is great stuff, quick, easy and clean to use and it air dries in about a day. My problem is my lack of painting skills. I did have the crazy idea that I could make an angel for the card - that soon went out the window when I saw the mess I'd made painting the poor angel's fave! Then the winged heart idea began to form.


I painted the heart with twinkling H2O's but tbh it didn't give much of a twinkle on it. The wings were coloured with a Krylon pen. Next I gilded the edges of the wings and bits of the heart with gold foil - I've not used this for ages, but it's great stuff for using with the paper clay.
I've been hoarding theis gorgeous paper for ages waiting for a good excuse to use it, it's so unusual for a romantic style paper to be these colours, but the pink, green and bits of brown look wonderful with a bit of added gold.
I used 3 different papers on this card, the one with the writing on I glued onto another piece of card and used sticky pads to raise above the main card. I cut the flourish for the top right of the card with my Robo, then used the negative of the cut as a stencil to add an extra bit of gold at the bottom.
The message was printed using various different fonts, with some gold gel pen added to the white bitsthen mounted on dark green card.
It still lacked something so I stuck a length of gold ribbon below the raised bit, and a couple of ribbon tabs fixed at the bottom right with gold heart brads.
The Girls on the Daring Cardmakers Design Team have made some fantastic, high flying cards for this dare, so please don't forget to go to and check out our blog, and all the personal ones too where you'll find more info on how they made them - oh and don't forget we have the wonderfully talented Tracy on the team atm as our very special Guest Designer.
We hope you'll be inspired to have a flutter at this one yourselves too!

(now, are there any more "flying" puns and phrases I can get in here, I wonder?)