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Hero Arts Wild Columbine Floral cards

In today’s card project, I played with the Wild Columbine bundle from Hero Arts an some distress inks to make a beautiful floral birthday card with a hint of vintage inspiration. Come and visit me on YouTube for the full video tutorial:

To start this project, I stamped out the floral image from the Hero Arts Wild Columbine stamp set and heat embossed using some gold embossing ink. I then used the coordinating stencils to color in the flower using Distress Inks in wilted violet, villainous potion, salvaged patina and peacock feathers. I cut out the image using the coordinating die.

For the background, I stamped out the Hero Arts positive script bold prints stamps and heat embossing using gold embossing powder. I then trimmed down the panel to 4×5.25 inches using the Tim Holtz deckle trimmer. Next, I created a gradient background from purple to white by blending wilted violet and villainous potion inks and fading the inks into white across the card.

I heat embossed the happy birthday for you sentiment from the wild columbine stamp set and heat embossed that with gold embossing powder. I used foam tape and extra die cuts to stack up my elements for some fun dimension.

I also made this card some friends using some different color combinations.

Spun sugar, saltwater taffy, cracked pistachio and lucky clover:

Kitsch Flamingo, picked raspberry, stormy sky, chipped sapphire

Squeezed lemonade, fossilized amber, stormy sky and chipped sapphire:

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EASY ombre butterfly cards with metallic accents and rub-ons!

Hey Crafty Friends! I am so excited to be back on the blog to share another fun card with you all today. I had lots of fun making this one as I was very excited to try some sentiment rub-ons. I generally tend to add sentiments with either stamping or die cutting, so this was different for me. I also challenged myself to think outside the box and use a slimline die for a regular A2 size card. I want to challenge you to take a look at your background dies and see if they have any small elements that you could use to stretch your supplies.

If you would like to watch the tutorial, please click here:

https://youtu.be/Dr-VEoxPUKI

To start this project, I selected 4 colors of cardstock from the warms smooth cardstock paper pad. I love these small paper pads because the colors go together perfectly, and I don’t need to dig through multiple paper packs to find colors that pair nicely together. I went with yellow, orange, coral, and red-ish shades. I then die cut each of these using the slimline spring floral die.

Ombre butterfly card with die cut layered butterflies and gold accents with rub ons

Once all my images were die cut, I layered 6 butterfly die cuts, while making sure I had the lighter shade on top. I adhered them in the middle with liquid glue and fluffed up the wings for dimension.

For the sentiment, I trimmed out gorgeous metallic rub on that says “wishing you a wonderful day”. This sentiment is from the card maker sentiments, rub-on transfers, also from scrapbook.com. I applied the rub on to a white A2 size card base.

Next up, I adhered the butterflies along the left edge of my card, in ombre color order. There was a bit more white space than I wanted, so I filled in the gaps by layering up some of the tiny floral die cuts from the same background die.

To complete the card, I added some metallic accents with some Hero Arts gold pearls, both on the butterflies, on the centers of the flowers, and to fill in some of the background.

Disclaimer: This post features affiliate links when possible.  Affiliate links are at no additional cost to you and they help support this channel. Thank you so much for shopping using my links! (I purchased all of the supplies used in this video)