Metal Butterfly Layout for Amaco

Happy Thursday!!  Today I want to share with you a 1 page layout that I designed for Amaco.  They hired me to make this for their CHA booth display.  I used 2 different colors of their Art Emboss metal - the "Light Copper" and "Light Brass".  This metal is thin and wonderful for embossing.  Different colors actually have different thicknesses, though.  On a previous project, I used the red metal, and it was softer and thinner than these 2 colors. 

These 2 colors shown here are too thick to run through the Cricut, so I decided to try cutting them in the Cuttlebug with a die.  I have a butterfly die with several coordinating embossing folders, so I thought it would work perfectly.  However, I must say that this metal was just a hair too thick for cutting in the Cuttlebug.  It cut most of the way through, but I had to trim around it with scissors to really make it work.  Still worth it, though, for such a unique look.

After I cut the butterflies, I then ran each of them through the Cuttlebug with an embossing folder.  I then bent up the wings, and used mini glue dots to attach the bodies to the page.  Since I already knew that I wanted to incorporate these 2 metal colors, which are kind of an orange tone and yellow tone, I purposely looked for papers that also included orange and yellow to help coordinate the whole color scheme.  These particular papers are from Pink Paislee, and I also love that I was able to bring out some blue, both light and dark.  Having the dark blue in there really added some contrast to help make it "pop".  There's that word!!  Yes, contrast is my friend.

Oh, you want more details, do ya?  Ok, the background of course is 12x12.  The scallop square is cut from Storybook at 11".  Dark blue square is 9 1/2 x 9 1/2.  Striped square is 9x9.  Oh, and pretty much everything is inked with dark brown.  Light copper photo mat is 4 3/4 x 6 3/4, and was embossed with the Tapestry embossing folder.  Light blue photo mat is 4 1/4 x 6 1/4.  Dark blue photo corners are from a Stampin' Up punch.  Little girl is cut from A Child's Year at 4 1/2", and is on a dark blue shadow of the same size.  I added 3 brass brads to every corner of the striped square to help bring that color and metal look throughout the layout a little more.  The title and journal box were just part of the paper pack from Pink Paislee.  Whew!

Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered to win this week's blog candy.  I will choose a random winner, and the winner will get to choose a theme and then I will custom make a completed layout just for that person.  It's gonna be fun!  Also, I want to thank you for your input regarding what you'd like to learn about.  That was very helpful for me, and I hope to put that to good use in the future.  :)