Cattails and Butterflies

I found a similar style of cutting on the silhouette and tried cutting it out but just didn't like how choppy the cut seemed, so when I found this die from cottage cutz, I thought I would give it a try and it cut perfectly, I am very happy with the way this turned out.  I made this for my nephews wife but I can see this being used for a masculine card too :)

I cut it from green cardstock, first colored the cattails with brown marker and then tried yellow for the flowers and orange for the butterflies, well those colors just looked like more shades of brown when colored on the green cardstock so I added stickles to those and I think the diamond stickles actually brought out some of the orange on the butterflies.

Cottage Cutz -- Fancy cattails and butterflies die
Damask Rose -- paper from cardmaking and papercrafts magazine
Spellbinders -- A2 matting basics A and Romantic Rectangles dies
Glimmer mist on the Romantic Rectangle die
Distress ink -- frayed burlap
Stickles -- yellow and diamond
David Tutera -- Celebrate sentiment
Ribbon

We are having beautiful weather this week and while out and about we are seeing some trees starting to change color too.  Autumn is in the air :)

Hope your all enjoying a great week so far,
Thanks so much for stopping by, and taking the time to comment too, love to hear from you,

Connie