roses, lace and butterflies

welcome to a new month and a new challenge at the gecko galz challenge blog!  this month of april our challenge theme is "roses, lace and butterflies."  link up a creation on this theme for the chance to win prizes from the gecko galz etsy shop.  here is some inspiration -- a little girl with her arms open wide to love.

supplies: card stock, gecko galz "spring awakening" paper pack (new this month); gecko galz collage sheets: "a rose is a rose," "la vie en rose,"  "vintage card toppers," and "birds and butterflies" also washi tape, enamel dots, tim holtz sentiment stickers and tim holtz distress ink in "tattered rose"

instructions: i covered the card base with the "lace" paper from the spring awakening paper pack.  the little girl is cut from "la vie en rose" collage sheet, the flowers are cut from the "rose is a rose" collage sheet, the carte postale is from "vintage card toppers" and the butterfly is cut out from the "birds and butterflies" collage sheet.  i arranged how i wanted all my pieces to fit together and then i glued them together on the card stock.  the final step was adding the sentiment, the distressing and the enamel dots.

please come back to this blog on the 6th of the month to see more inspiration and also to received a free digital image which you can use for the challenge if you like.  to play in the challenge you must use something from gecko galz.  you can use the freebie i'll be posting on the 6th, or visit the gecko galz pinterest page for freebies to use.  and of course there are so many great things in the etsy shop! 

thanks for looking; love to all.