Diamonds and Butterfly Card

I've been sharing lots of Spellbinders projects for their new releases this month and today is no exception. The new Glimmer Greetings collection went live this week and I'm featuring two products from that release; the Essential Diamonds Etched die set and the Glimmer Essential Diamond Hot Foil Plate. Scroll down for creative details, plus product links at the end of this post.

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One can never have too many encouragement cards. My first inclination was to use these products in that manner. My stacked diamond centerpiece in the photo above was created using the black and aura hot foils with my glimmer machine. I foiled them on the Spellbinders Glimmer specialty cardstock, then used my Essential Diamond dies to cut them in different sizes, running them through my manual die cut machine.

I also die cut some patterned paper from my stash to layer with my foiled diamond images, using colors that would tie to my watercolored butterfly.

I recently purchased the Spellbinders Butterfly Sentiments stamp set, designed by Bibi Cameron. I adore butterflies and love the sentiments included for so many different occasions. I stamped and heat embossed my butterfly on Canson mixed media paper which you can find at Walmart or other hobby stores.

Next, I watercolored with my Catherine Pooler inks, pressing the ink on a craft mat and grabbing the color with my water brush to paint. Once dry, I spritzed on some Ranger Hickory Smoke distress spray stain and heat set it. The colors I chose are the same colors found on a Madagascar butterfly which I used for my entire color scheme. Yes, I googled a Madagascar butterfly, and the application of where to apply the color was taken into consideration as well.

The center of my butterfly was inked with black hybrid ink and has black glitter glue applied. My sentiment strip was also heat embossed on black cardstock with white embossing powder, then popped up on multiple layers of adhesive foam.

Lastly, for the back drop of my diamond centerpiece and butterfly I die cut the A2 sized Stitched Diamond Argyle etched background die on white cardstock and backed it with black cardstock. 

I also embellished my centerpiece with the Winter Evergreen Branches die set on white cardstock. Both of these die sets were also newly released this week.

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Terri

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