Two Butterfly cards using Blendabilities background

These two cards will be made in the next class (Feb. 25).  They are created from a background I made yesterday using some colours of blendabilities and rubbing alcohol on glossy cardstock.

The colours used for this background :  Cherry Cobbler, Coastal Cabana, Pumpkin Pie and Crumb Cake.  Again, I used the darkest shade of the colours with the exception of Crumb Cake.

Card One:

 I know you can't see the background colours very well in the butterflies, but wait for the next card.

Using the medium sized Butterfly framelit two butterflies were die cut from the background and attached to a whisper White background which had been embossed with the Filigree embossing folder.  This was matted with Melon Mambo cardstock, and attached to a Whisper White card base.


There is no sentiment for this card, and that was done on purpose.

Card Two:

After I die cut the butterflies, I was left with a butterfly stencil - which I decided to make into a new card.

You can see the background much better here.

The butterfly stencil was trimmed, and matted with Whisper White cardstock and then with Melon Mambo cardstock.  At the top and bottom end I attached a piece of Melon Mambo cardstock which had been die cut using the Finishing Touches framelit die.  This whole unit was attached to a Whisper White base.

In the middle of each butterfly stencil, are two butterflies that were die cut using the smallest of the butterflies in the Butterfly framelit die collection.  Before attaching them they were embossed with the Decorative dots folder.  Of course a card has to have bling, so a row of rhinestones was added to the center of each of these butterflies.

These cards could be birthday cards, anniversary cards, thinking of you, Just because, etc.

Here's the supplies I used;

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Festival of Trees

I'm taking a break from Halloween and Thanksgiving cards and gifts to focus on Christmas a little bit.  My next craft show is Thanksgiving weekend, and I'm feeling the crunch.

When I saw the Festival of Trees stamp set with its coordinating Tree Punch in the Holiday catalogue, I must admit I wasn't too thrilled!  So, I did not order it.  But the stamp set grew on me, and finally I broke down and ordered it.  I'm glad I did, because I now quite like it.

I also used the Filigree embossing folder for the first time - and it's so elegant!

I started out by embossing the Whisper White card stock, and using Sky Blue ink, stamped snow in the middle of it.
In the meantime I was stamping the trees using Old Olive ink, punching them out with the Tree Punch.  The poor trees just needed to stand in a bucket, so I stamped them with Chocolate Chip ink and hand cut them, then attachied them to the trunk of the tree with glue dots.

Next came the cardinals.  I could have made them Blue Jays, but in my mind's eye I saw Cardinals.  So I stamped 3 with Real Red ink and hand cut them - a bit tedious but well worth it.  Before cutting thems out I touched them up with a Cherry Cobbler marker go give the birds some dimension.

Seeing it was snowing in the background, there had to be snow on the trees, so I applied some dazzling diamonds to each tree.

Now I attached the trees to the embossed whisper white layer using dimensionals, staggering them so they weren't in a straight line.  The birds were attached with glue dots.

Finally the sentiment.  It is from More Merry Messages, and I die cut it using Itty Bitty Framelits, curled it up and attached it to the bottom using glue dots.

Stamps: Festival of Trees, More Merry Messages
Inks: Soft Sky, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler marker
Papers: Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories: Tree Punch, Filigree Embossing Folder, Dazzling Diamonds, Itty Bitty Banner framelits, dimensionals.