Colours for January

We're having another Colourful year at the Daring Cardmakers with the first challenge each month being given over to a colour palette chosen by one of the Design Team.
Leo is first to choose and has found  this gorgeous photo for our January colour combo inspiration

I always find it quite hard to get back into "regular" crafting after all the Christmas stuff and I did struggle to get something done this week.  You'd think it would be a breath of fresh air after all the trees, stockings and baubles!
I treated myself to a new Memory Box die not long before Christmas so thought I'd give it an airing.  I should really have bought the matching plain shape as well as the fancy frilly one but I didn't so to make the background piece for the butterfly on the left I cut it a second time while the first (fancy) layer was still in the die (sometimes the reluctance of the little bitty bits to come out of the shape is actually a help!), then I covered the back of the shape with sticky tape before removing the die so that all the pieces stayed put.  I hope that makes sense.
Now I could remove both from the die and had one die cut with no "holes" and the second fancy cut butterfly too

I used:

all papers My Minds Eye 6x6 - various collections are used

Imaginisce iRocks (turquoise), Anita's dark gold gems

Narrow velvet ric-rac (from a Secret Santa gift - lucky me, eh?)

Dies;  Memory Box Butterfly, MFT Doily

Craft Robo; sentiment

We'd love you to join in with us this week, please visit our BLOG to see some beautiful inspiration from the team, to learn about our new Teamie and to hear who won our Prize Voucher from The Ribbon Reel

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