Hello my blogging friends!
I had the post completely finished, including spell checking for errors when Internet explorer crashed. I thought I would be saved by the auto save feature on blogger — but I would be wrong.
The inspiration for this project came from
Angie. Click her name for her video blog of this project! As you can see I changed it up for my personal taste and it came out terrific.
I love you, butterfly card, the recipe!
Instructions:
Card base is 5 ½” X 4 ¼”
Brown card stock is 5 ¼” X 4”
Blue cards stock is 5” X 3 ¾”
White card stock is 4 7/8” X 4 7/8”
Strips are:
Brown card stock is 1” X 5”
Rose card stock is ¾” X 4 ¾”
The circles are 1” punched from red card stock
The hearts are punched from a small heart punch by Marvy. A shrink plastic butterfly (Starving artist stamps) is attached to the middle heart. The hearts are further embellished using stickles.
Blue card stock nestabilities (Spellbinders) measures 4 1/8” pierce the scallop
White card stock nestabilities (Spellbinders) measures 3 5/8” X 1 ¾” sponge and pierce scallop.
Butterfly is stamped onto a 3M transparency (Martha Stewart Crafts) using Versa Mark ink. It is embossed using black embossing powder (Sparkle and Sprinkle).
Cut the butterfly out after embossing and cut the wings on the top butterfly so they spread out. The transparency is colored from the back side using Copic sketch markers.
The sentiment is stamped onto the white nestabilities panel. I stapled the butterfly to this layer and hid the staple with a yellow sharpie marker.
The card is embellished with three jewels.
I sent this beautiful card into the folks who publish Stampers Sampler, wish me luck! I would love to get published in a few different periodicals!
I hope you all have a great evening. Blog candy will begin on Jan 26th, with new and exciting things. Don’t forget to leave those comments, you never know if I may ‘choose’ a name for a surprise !
Have a great night!
