Butterfly Friendship #1
Booklet Card
opened: W 7" x H 7"
closed: W 3 1/2 X H 7"

This is an inter-connected booklet style card. I used a cut out portion of the butterfly shape from one page to connect with another page. I used Arches Text Wove paper and hand painted it with watercolors in pinks and blues and dropped pearlescent gold and bronze inks randomly. The lettering is done using a Hot Mark Tool and purple embossing powder in a funky curled dot style. A couple words are done with gold embossing powder.

Some areas along the spine are reinforced with mulberry paper.

Words: "Friendship is"

"the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words." by George Eliot

"Friendship is"

"the fruit gathered from trees planted in the rich soil of LOVE and nurtured with tender care and understanding. by Alma L. Weixelbaum

"as I love nature, as I love singing birds and gleaming stubble and flowing rivers and"

"morning and evening and summer and winter I love thee my friend." by Henry David Thoreau