Let's Celebrate... Butterfly on tree bark background A6 card

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Let's Celebrate... Butterfly on tree bark background A6 card

Hi Craft addicts!

I really enjoyed making this card as it combines backgrounds I have created myself using Alcohol inks or Tim Holtz Distress Crayons with stamps and dies...


How I made this card-
  • I had coloured a piece of card using bright coloured Alcohol inks (or watercolours) and decided that I would use it to make one of the Butterflies in the Butterfly Embellishment Die set from The Paper Boutique (Creative Crafting World) and so cut out the body/wings in it and then the Antennae and mat layer in black card and stuck them together using PVA Glue.
  • I then added some Versamark sticky ink to it and heat embossed it with Clear embossing powder to give it both a sheen and more stability.
  • I had also coloured a piece of white card with brown shades of Tim Holtz Distress Crayons and thought that if I stamped the tree rings/bark image (from the Back to Nature Backgrounds For The Love of Stamps set) over it it would look exactly like bark/tree rings...I used Gina K Black Amalgam ink to do this -  I really liked the effect it created and will do more like it soon!
  • I edged it with a black alcohol  marker to make it stand out.
  • I cut a strip of brown paper approx 1.5" high (from Hunkydory's Colour Families Brown pad and stuck it to the centre of an A6 White card using PVA glue.
  • I then attached the bark/tree topper to the centre of that and then stuck the butterfly on top (at an angle to make it a bit more interesting).
  • Finally, I stamped the Let's Celebrate! sentiment (from the Sweet Sentiments For The Love of Stamps range) in the bottom right hand corner again using Black Gina K Amalgam ink.
Products used for these projects:-
  • A6 White Card and envelope
  • Butterfly embellishments die set from The Paper Boutique from Creative Crafting World
  • Sweet Sentiments stamp collection from For the Love of Stamps by Hunkydory
  • Back to Nature Backgrounds stamp collection again from For the Love of Stamps
  • Tim Holtz Distress Crayons
  • Alcohol inks or Watercolour inks
  • White card
  • Black card
  • Brown paper from the 8" paper pad from the Colour Family ranges again from Hunkydory
  • Black Amalgam ink from Gina K
  • Clear Embossing Powder
  • Versamark ink pad
  • Collall All Purpose Glue
  • Cosmic Shimmer PVA glue
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