Floral Butterfly Card

Hello friends. I'm sharing this card for Scrapbook.com, featuring the new Sizzix & Stacey Park release. I'm working with another addition to the Cosmopolitan collection, a stamp and stencil set called "Farfallina", which in Italian, means butterfly. I chatted up Stacey herself (she's lovely, by the way) to inquire about the naming of this set. I won't go into all the details but suffice it to say, it represents overcoming tragedy and the little blessings in life. Scroll down for creative details, plus I'll have a clickable supply list at the end of this post, as well.

(FTC Disclosure: as an affiliate for various companies in the craft industry, I will receive a small commission for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.)

 

This stamp set is so gorgeous and I love the lines in the stamped images. The stamps are rather large, so I chose to go a little bigger than my usual A2 size card. The total dimension of my card is 4.50  x 6.25  inches so this will fit nicely in a 5 x 7 inch envelope. I used Neenah 8.5 x 11 inch cardstock for my trimmed and scored card with a side-fold. You would need to trim your card down to 9 x 6.25 inches. I've created a graphic for you to see the measurements for scoring, below. 

I started with a sheet of the Scrapbookcom white mixed media cardstock from the 6 x 8 inch paper pad. It's heavyweight and sturdy and great for watercoloring. I then trimmed it down to 4 x 6 inches.

I wanted to keep this a mostly one layer card, with the exception of the popped up sentiments. I pulled out my mint tape, and stamped a couple leaves, fussy cutting the tape leaves with scissors, so I could use them to create a masked, stamped border along the top and bottom of my card.

The masked leaves allow you to create an overlap on your stamping, without disturbing the integrity of your stamped images.

After stamping all my images, I went in with the stencil and my Catherine Pooler Inks. I ink blended all the images with my blender brushes but kept my inking very minimal on the flowers and butterfly, as I wanted to go in and add more depth of color by watercoloring. This is achieved by pressing your ink pad on a craft mat and spritzing with a little water. Then, simply grab the mixture with a water brush and just start painting!

I love that there is only one stencil, with all the images cut out on it. I think the cut images are spaced out nicely, however, if you have large blender brushes, you may want to consider using tape to cover the surrounding cut-outs, so you don't muddy up space on your card because your brush was too big.

I didn't do any watercoloring on the leaves, only the flowers and butterfly, layering on colors with my ink and a waterbrush. Next, I started watercoloring around my stamped images, creating a painted blue outline. When done, there was a little ink left on my craft mat, so I took my card panel and tapped it onto the inky mixture. That's where some of the blue splatters came from. 

My next step was to add more splatters, so I grabbed my Ranger Black Marble shimmer spray, unscrewing the bottle and tapping the feeder tube to get droplets on my panel.

I also used the Spellbinders Splatter White for paint splatters. A tiny bit of this was mixed with water. Next, I flicked the mixture off the edge of an acrylic block using a paint brush.

I used a really pretty sage green paper from the Scrapbook.com 6x8 inch Peppermin Solid Paper Pad. I love the subtle effect of color from the paper, in my background.

My card panel and background paper were adhered flat to my white card. For my sentiment, I heat embossed one of the sentiments from the stamp set onto my SBC black mixed media cardstock, using SBC premium clear emboss ink and Wow embossing powder. I love the spacing between the words, which allowed me to chop up my sentiment and scatter it about on my card. The words are popped up on SBC adhesive strips.

I hope you like my card, I'm kind of crushing on it myself!  I have convenient affiliate links below, if you'd like to do some shopping. There is no additional cost to you, for using my links and I appreciate it so much when you do! 

Thanks so much for popping in. Let me know if you have any questions, in the comment section.

Terri

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Peony Birthday Wishes for Spellbinders

Hey cardmakers. I'm back with another project for Spellbinders, featuring products from the Glimmering Flowers collection. I whipped this card out lickety split, believe it or not! It helps that I had already foiled several card panels at once recently, so I had some on hand ready to be inked up. I'm creating with the Glimmering Peonies Glimmer Plate and stencil bundle, plus the Glimmer Curved Everyday Sentiment plate/die set. Scroll down for creative details, plus a little chit chat about bulk foiling sentiments! I'll also have a clickable supply list at the end of this post.

(FTC Disclosure: as an affiliate for various companies in the craft industry, I will receive a small commission for purchases made through my convenient affiliate links, at no additional cost to you.)

 

For my foiling, I chose my Spellbinders Glimmer Polished Brass hot foil for use with my Glimmer Peonies plate and Glimmer Hot Foil System and white cardstock. Next, I used the layering stencil set and inked up my blooms with a variety of Catherine Pooler inks, in blues and browns.

I also embossed a layered grey background panel using the Spellbinders Four Petal Floral 3D embossing folder for some added texture.

I also had a bunch of foiled sentiments on hand from some bulk foiling I did recently using the Glimmer Curved Sentiments plate and die set. The great thing about this set is, it comes with the curved banner die so you can cut all kinds of solid banners and layer them with your foiled sentiment. As you see above, I have a solid black die cut banner layered under my sentiment.

This set is designed for bulk foiling and it has been a lifesaver in my cardmaking. As you can see in the photo below, there are 2 glimmer foil plates with 7 sentiments attached to each plate. You can foil 14 sentiments at once! The curved banner die is also attached, so all you have to do is lay it over each batch of sentiments to die cut. So, two passes through your Platinum 6 die cut system and you have 14 foiled sentiments all cut and ready to go. 

And, here's my storage tray below, with my bulk foiled sentiments! I actually foiled a batch of sentiments on white cardstock with black hot foil, and the other batch on black cardstock with white hot foil.

Let me mention, the overall dimensions are a bit larger than an A2 card. My foiled card panel was almost 5x7 inches and I did trim it down a bit to layer with my embossed background and card. The dimensions are 4.50 x 5.75 inches.

 Finally, I finished off my inked panel with splatters using my Ranger Ink Dylusions Black Marble spray. I didn't spray it though. I unscrewed the nozzle spray from the bottle, then sprinkled droplets all around by tapping the feeder tube attached to the nozzle. I also adhered some embellishments from my stash.

If you missed my last card using these products, you can check it out here. If you decide you'd like to shop, I have convenient affiliate links provided below. I appreciate it so much when you shop through my links! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Terri

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