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Summery cards with Uniko butterfly stamps, we have seen more butterflies around since the sun came out which is lovely. The verse with this stamp set says 'Butterflies drift in the gentle breeze, in an English country garden'
6x6" white linen base card. I cut a smaller piece of white linen card and stamped the butterflies with ombre ink, using 2nd & 3rd generation ink to give more faded butterflies in the background. I then used a square frame die in the middle of this panel which gave me 3 pieces of the background, i adhered the outside and middle pieces to the card front flat and then the middle frame piece i attached with foam tape - this is just to add a bit of interest to the design
The butterflies i had left over from previous cards when i made up more than i used. I stamped the butterflies onto vellum, added colour to the back with alcohol markers and cut out, adhere to plain white paper and cut around, using white on the back just helped them stand out and keep them clean looking. I gently shaped their wings and added to the base with glue gel.
I stamped the verse onto more vellum, backed with white paper and adhered to the card front with foam tape. Gold gems hide the glue on the vellum and gold gems on the butterfly bodies to finish.
Version 2. I used distress inks to stamp the background butterflies in shaded lilac, tumbled glass, bundled sage & iced spruce. I spritzed with water and dabbed, this gave a more muted subtle background than version 1. Butterflies again left over from previous project, this time instead of adding the colour to the back of the vellum, i left the vellum clear and added the alcohol markers to the plain paper butterfly i had underneath - again this is a much more subtle effect. I added glitter glue to the bodies and then sprinkled the gold gems about the background.
Items Used:
Uniko stamps 'English Country garden - butterflies'
Kaliedacolor ombre inkpad
Distress inks
MFT scalloped square frame die
Vellum
White paper
CraftUK ltd white linen card
gold gems
Ranger stickles 'diamond'
Thank you all for stopping by. Hugs Emmaxxx
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10 comments:
Beautiful butterflies Emma, gorgeous cards. Jxx
Both versions are beautiful Emma,love your choice of colours
What a wonderful effect you'e achieved and a fab layout. Both versions are so pretty. Thanks for joining us at Allsorts challenge.
Beautiful cards Ginny
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beautiful cards Emma
Kate x
They both are so beautiful with this great design and love the sentiment! Thanks so much for sharing at Allsorts challenge!
Both are beautiful Emma and can't choose a fav colour way, that sentiment is also lovely, thanks so much for sharing with us at Allsorts Summer challenge.
Sadly we have seen very few Butterflies this Summer so far, but we do seem to have an abundance of Dragonflies, some huuuuuge which seem to want to take up residence in the conservatory which hubby persuades outside on the end of a feather duster.
B x
Gorgeous pair, I do love the more subtle version ... I'm now humming the English Country Garden tune in my head! Steph x
2 gorgeous cards Emma and fabulous techniques. Thanks so much for sharing with Allsorts
Pauline x
Beautiful cards Emma, love this set. Did treat myself to them too, just need to find my mojo. Big hugs Kirsty. x
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