Honoring the Monarch Butterfly

Completed card honoring Monarch butterfly

I keep reading about how the numbers of Monarch butterflies are dwindling. It would be a huge loss to not have this summer visitor around anymore.

The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania featured this  lovely creature on the cover of its latest magazine for members. I hated to waste the beautiful artwork so I decided to turn the photos into a card.

I punched circles out of the cover photos and then played with them for awhile to see how they would look as a semi collage. The first layout didn't work at all (see photo below) but the second one did (above).

Original collage for card; not used

I used the punched circles for the background and then found a graphic drawing of a butterfly on the Internet. I printed it out, colored it in with an orange Sharpie and Tombo markers and then added some bling at the end. (I also edged the butterfly with black ink).

It all sits nicely on a piece of green-striped corrugated paper that I found sitting in my paper stash.

This seemed like a fitting project to honor the Monarch, a favorite butterfly for so many of us.