Butterflies are Fabulous

April Stamp Club Card

As time goes by, I find myself more and more drawn to butterflies.  I seem to have quite a few stamp sets with butterfly images.  I've even filled a picture frame of butterflies using the Beautiful Wings embosslit.  It looks something like THIS but with a dark brown frame.  And above it, I have a wrought iron butterfly.   So here is a card using a butterfly.  What is hard to see in the photo is the Crystal Effects covering the entire butterfly image.

Butterfly using Rock and Roll Technique with a Twist:

Stamp one half of the butter fly in So Saffron ink.  Stamp the other side of the butterfly in Certainly Celery ink.  Roll butterfly stamp around the edges of the stamp in Pool Party ink.  Stamp on card stock.   


Tip:  Apply Crystal Effects over the entire butterfly image.  Make sure you do this once the card has been completed and assembled.  Or you will have to wait many hours until the Crystal Effects dries before adhering it to the card.

Supplies:

Stamps:  Fabulous Florets, Word Play
Paper:  Whisper White, Pool Party
Ink:  Pool Party, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Basic Black
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Crystal Effects 


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October Stamp Club

French Foliage

Rock & Roll and Collage Techniques

Directions:

Collage Background:

Randomly stamp French Foliage images over Very Vanilla card stock in the following inks:

• Poplar leaf in Cajun Craze ink
• Oak leaf in Cajun Craze ink.  Stamp- off once on scrap paper before stamping on card stock. This gives it a lighter colour
• Script in Rich Razzleberry ink
• Paris Circle in Rich Razzleberry ink
• Ink up an Acrylic Block in More Mustard ink

Small Square Image:

1.  Sponge edges of Very Vanilla square with More Mustard ink.

2.  Stamp Script in Rich Razzleberry ink in center of Very Vanilla square.

3.  Ink Poplar Leaf in More Mustard ink.  Roll the edges in Cajun Craze ink.  Stamp on Very Vanilla square.

Complete card:

1.  Adhere layers together.

2.  Add dimensionals to the back of the Collage image and the small square Leaf image.

3.  Add ribbon to collage image.

4.  Finish card.

Dimensions:

Cajun Craze Card Base:  5 1/2 x 8 1/2

Rich Razzleberry:  3 3/8 x 4 5/8

Very Vanilla:  3 1/4 x 4 1/2

Cajun Craze:  2 x 2 1/4

Rich Razzleberry:  1 7/8 x 2 1/8

Very Vanilla:  1 3/4 x 2

Supplies:

Stamps:  French Foliage, Acrylic Block

Paper:  Cajun Craze, Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla,

Ink:  Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Rich Razzleberry

Accessories:  Rich Razzleberry Ribbon, Dimensionals, Sponge

4.25 x 5.5 card



Baroque Motifs and Big Beautiful Butterfly



Directions:

1.  Stamp Baroque Motifs flourish, small flower and sentiment in Soft Suede ink on Soft Suede card stock. 

2.  Use Scallop Trim Border Punch to punch both edges of Newsprint DSP.  Adhere to Cherry Cobbler strip.

3.  Add Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding and then Lace to the strip.

4.  Use Bigshot to cut out small butterflies (Beautiful Wings Embosslit).  Glue to background with a Two-way Glue Pen.

5.  Fold Naturals Ivory square in half and place over the "half butterfly" on the Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die.  Run through Bigshot.  TIP:  When placing your folded card stock over the half butterfly, make sure that your see the ends of the lines of the middle part of the butterfly.  Doing this will ensure that you cut your butterfly completely.

6.  With a clean Baroque Motifs flourish stamp, stamp on butterfly with VersaMark.  Emboss with Clear Embossing Powder.

7.  Sponge over butterfly with Cherry Cobbler and Soft Suede ink.  (If you would like your butterfly multicoloured, add more ink colours as suggested in the Supply List.  The example that was followed is on page 133 in the Stampin' Up Idea Book & Catalogue).  Once you are done sponging, take a tissue or baby wipe and gently wipe the ink off the embossed flourish.

8.  Punch a 1/8" hole with Hand Held Punch.  Add brad.  Add dimensionals to back of butterfly.

9.  Complete card.

Dimensions:

Natural Ivory Card Base:  5 1/2 x 8 1/2

Soft Suede:  4 1/8 x 5 3/8

Cherry Cobbler Strip:  1 7/8 x 5 1/4

Newsprint Designer Series Paper:  2 1/8 x 5 1/4

Butterfly Square:  3 1/4 x 4 1/4 

Natural Ivory Scrap:  for Beautiful Wings Embosslit

Supplies:

Stamps:  Baroque Motifs

Paper:  Naturals Ivory, Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler, Newsprint DSP

Ink:  Soft Suede, VersaMark, Cherry Cobbler (Multicoloured Option:  Elegant Eggplant, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard)

Accessories:    Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz Die, Bigshot, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Cherry Cobbler 1/2" Seam Binding, Vanilla Lace Trim (from the dollar store??), Brad, Dimensionals, Two-way Glue Pen, Clear Embossing Powder, Sponge, 1/8" Hand Held Punch

4 25 x 5 5 card



The club had the option to make a multicoloured butterly.  Just like in the Stampin' Up Idea Book & Catologue (p.132)



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New Amy Butler Clear Stamps

The new paper and stamps are my sale purchases from Michael's last week. I think the paper and the stamps coordinate very nicely even though they are from two different companies. It's nice when that works out. Makes it more versatile.

























This first card is super easy. I stamped the "medallion" in black stazon and cut it out. The "thank you" is a separate stamp that actually can be taken out of the medallion if you want to use it some other place. I was very excited when I found that out. Versatile, again. Next I took a little flourish stamp, inked it in Old Olive, stamped off on a piece of scrap and then four times in the center of the medallion. I added ribbon and brads and Voila....done.

The second card is pretty simple too, but it took me a bit longer to figure out what I wanted to do with it. The main "urn-like" image had the "happy birthday" inside it, but I was able to take it out and stamp it at the bottom of the card. In retrospect, I think next time I will stamp the sentiment in Cameo Coral to match the scalloped square. The "leaves" in the centre of the urn is stamped off first before stamped on the card stock. The butterfly is inked in Cameo Coral and then "rock and rolled" in Ruby Red.
























Supplies for both cards:

Stamps: Lotus Greeting Stamps by Amy Butler (K & Company)
Paper: Oasis Paper Pack (SEI), Whisper White, Old Olive, Basic Black
Ink: Black Stazon, Old Olive, Cameo Coral, Ruby Red
Accessories: Dimensionals, Gingham Ribbon, Olive Satin Ribbon (Gales), Black Brads, Square Scalloped Punch (Marvy)

4.25 x 5.5 card

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Celebrate You in Polka Dot Blue

Happy Monday. Today's card was inspired by Amy from Pickled Paper Designs. This is a blog I look at everyday and pretty much like every card she makes. I really liked the layout and cut out flowers on her card and I took it from there to create my card.

Maybe you've already noticed that this card is similar in colours and techniques as a previous card I've posted. This card is actually the first card I made. All the details on making the flowers are in that post. The one think I forgot to mention was that I stamped the flowers on the Basic Grey designer paper.

Supplies:

Stamps: Ginormous Flowers, Celebrate Everything
Paper: Naturals White, Not Quite Navy, Oh Boy line (Basic Grey)
Ink: VersaMark, Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, White Buttons (unknown), Stamp-a-ma-jig

5.5 x 4.25 card

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Weekend Sketch Challenge #46

I had this Basic Grey designer paper still sitting on my desk (the Oh Baby line) from a previous card that I have yet to post. So it was convenient to use for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.

The flower from Ginormous Flowers is stamped in VersaMark and rolled in Not Quite Navy ink and them embossed three times with Clear Embossing Powder. The word "celebrate" is also embossed. When an image is embossed more than once, it gives it a thicker and smoother look. As a result, the flower curls up a bit, which is an added bonus.

I also used Clear Micro Pellets as embellishments. I stuck them on with Mini Glue Dots. By the way, I found them at Dollarama and there are 1,000 in the package. I think they will last my lifetime. LOL

Supplies:

Stamps: Ginormous Flowers, Celebrate Everything

Paper: Oh Baby line (Basic Grey, Bordering Blue, Not Quite Navy, Naturals White,

Ink: Not Quite Navy, VersaMark

Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Clear Micro Pellets, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Small Corner Rounder Punch, Sponge Dauber

3 x 6 card

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Ginormously From the Heart

Today the water has been shut off in our house. Last night a pipe started leaking at the back of the sink. It is in a very unaccessable place so we need to get someone in to fix it. It looks like most of the pipes have been replaced except for this one piece. I can see why. The guy is going to have to cut a hole in the floor or in the wall at the back of the sink to reach this itty bitty piece of lead pipe to fix it. The joys of having an older home.

On this card I used the Kissing and Rock & Roll technique:

1. Ink up the Stitched Background stamp in Cranberry Crisp. Set it down face up.

2. Stamp the Ginormous flower in Cameo Coral ink and stamp off on scrap paper. I wanted a lighter background colour so the Stitched BG will show up better.

3. Stamp the flower on top of the inked up Stitched BG stamp. This is called Kissing.

4. Roll the edges of the flower in the Cranberry Crisp ink. This is called Rock & Roll.

5. Finally stamp the flower on the Whisper White card stock.

6. Follow the above steps with the leaves in Sage Shadow and Always Artichoke. (I left out Step 4).

Supplies:

Stamps: Ginormous Flowers, Holidays & Wishes, Stitched BG

Paper: Whisper White, Blush Blossom, Wild Asparagus DP (my mind's eye)

Ink: Cameo Coral, Cranberry Crisp (retired), Sage Shadow, Always Artichoke

Accessories: Crystal Brad (making memories), Dimensional, Grey Ribbon (Michael's), 3/4" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch

4.75 x 4.75 card

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Sketch Challenge

This is the card I made for last week's sketch challenge on Splitcoaststampers. I have finally found the time to upload it. With Zachary starting Kindergarten (and Caleb back at nursery school) I feel like I have begun a new job as well. We are having very early mornings compared to the summer. I have to get used to this new routine and not feel quite as harried. It will get easier.

A couple things to note about this card since it is hard to see on the photo: I used the "dotted" print stamp on the Bashful Blue card stock with Bashful Blue ink, stamped the three-flowered stamp over it with VersaMark and finally, embossed with clear embossing powder. I also distressed and sponged all the edges of the card stock except for the card base in Sahara Sand.

Technique: Rock & Roll

Using the Rock and Roll techique is simple but fun. Make sure you are using a bold image stamp. Stamp your image in a light coloured ink first and then roll the edges in a darker colour ink. Now stamp on your card stock. Done! Very easy. Make sure you are using light ink first otherwise you will add ink to the second ink pad. If this does happen, lightly dab away the darker ink with a paper towel or baby wipe.

Have a great day!

Recipe:

4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card

Stamps: Looks Like Spring, Holidays & Wishes (from the heart)

Paper: Sahara Sand, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Basic Black

Ink: Sahara Sand, Bashful Blue, Basic Black, VersaMark

Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Cutter Kit (distresser), Ribbon (Michael's), Silver Brads, Gemstone (Paper Studio), Sponge Dauber