Tuesday, May 1, 2018

You Move Me - a Pop Up Butterfly Card - in Retiring Colors

Somehow 2 years go by too fast, and the following  In-Colors are about to retire the end of this month:  Emerald Envy, Dapper Denim, Sweet Sugarplum, Flirty Flamingo, and Peek-a-boo Peach.

Fortunately one of these colors is going to remain as a new member of  one of the color families.

In this pop up Birthday Day card,  I use all of these In-Colors  - plus I bring back a retired DSP to help coordinate them.(Playful Palette DSP)


The card base is Basic Black card stock, layered with Whisper White, and then the Playful Palette DSP.

On the card front I adhere a window frame die cut in Basic Black with some Vellum adhered behind it (this prevents the images from getting lost in the pattern of the DSP) 

All images were stamped using the Stamparatus and die cut using the Move Me Thinlets. At the top of the window is a cluster of  tropical flowers stamped in Flirty Flamingo ink with Basic Black centers.  The leaf was stamped with Emerald Envy ink.  I stamped the Hummingbird using Emerald Envy and Dapper Denim ink.  A tiny Peek-a- boo Peach butterfly is seen hovering at the base of the window.

This focal piece is added to the card front using dimensionals.  Below is a close up.



The sentiment, stamped in Dapper Denim, using the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set, was die cut using the layering oval framelits and added to the window sill with dimensionals.

Opening the card reveals a string of 5 double die cut butterflies adhered in such a way as to pop open and closed in an accordion manner.



Each butterfly consists of a Basic Black base and a more intricate inner layer die cut in each of the In-Colors. These layers are adhered together only at their bodies.

The paired butterflies are adhered together at their upper wing tip of the Basic Black butterfly only (I used glue dots but other adhesives could be used as well.  Only the two butterflies at each end are adhered to the inside of each side of the card - and then only by half the back wing, and at an angle.  This leaves the rest of the butterflies floating free.

Each half of the inside of the card is first layered with Whisper White card stock, and then I added a  window frame which I die cut using the DSP ( the reverse side although I used the original pattern for the sill.  I attached the butterflies to the window frame on each side.


Supplies Used:
Stamps:  You Move Me, Beautiful Bouquet
Inks:  Black Memento, Sweet Sugarplum, Emerald Envy, Peek-a-boo Peach, Dapper Denim, Flirty Flamingo
Papers:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Sweet Sugarplum, Emerald Envy, Peek-a-boo Peach, Dapper Denim, Flirty Flamingo, Vellum, Playful Palette DSP
Accessories:  Move Me Thinlet Dies, Layering Oval Framelits, Dimensionals, Glue Dots, Window frame Thinlet Die







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