Today I am sharing this fun butterfly birthday card. It features a few different cardmaking techniques including ink blending, stenciling, glitter paste, heat embossing and die cutting. Let’s get started.
The first thing I did was grab a white piece of cardstock and this Brutus Monroe butterfly heart stencil. I pulled out four Catherine Pooler mini inks in an ombre order. The ones I picked were pucker up, flirty fuchsia, grape crush and drive in. Using Catherine Pooler blending brushes, I applied the inks in rainbow order through the stencil. I took a cloth and lightly wiped any extra ink off of my stencil. Next I applied a thin layer of nuvo glimmer paste through the stencil, right on top of the stenciling. This gel can be tricky to clean up, so I quickly removed and washed my stencil in some soapy water.
For the sentiment, I used white embossing powder to stamp out the Happy Birthday to you sentiment from LDRS special occasions stamp. I then used the same CP inks to ink around the sentiment. When I was happy with my blending, I buffed the excess ink off of the embossed sentiment to make it pop. Then I used a coordinating die to cut out the sentiment.
All that was left to do is assemble my card. I grabbed a piece of purple cardstock from my stash and used it to create a standard A2 size card based. I trimmed down my butterfly panel slightly smaller than the size of my card front. I adhered the card front to the purple cardstock and used some foam tape to pop up my sentiment. I finished the card off by adding a few Pinkfresh Studio iridescent clear drops.
I think this project would be really fun to repeat using some other fun color combinations. It would also be a great one if you need to mass produce a lot of cards really quick.
Thanks so much for checking out my project today!
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