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Hello crafty co-horts! I’m up on the Pinkfresh blog today with a pretty layered butterfly card. I loved working with something so whimsical as a paper butterfly so I thought to make a wreath of them using the new, beautiful Small Butterflies hot foil plate, stencil set and die.
The sentiment that I wanted to use inspired the color choices of mostly yellow with one purple butterfly and it’s from the Butterflies stamp set.
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I began by hot foiling them with Glimmer foil colors Citrine and Fuchsia Flower. The colors that I used to shade the butterflies are: Lemon Whip, Sunshine and Sweet Mustard and Soft Lilac, Lavender and Candy Violet. I used the Small Butterflies stencil set which has 4 layers but I elected to use only 3 to keep some white spaces in them. (And oh-my-gosh I’m loving the layered stencil sets! So quick and easy to use!) I die cut them out using the Small Butterflies die. Then I die cut out, using one of the smaller Stitched Scallop Circles, a couple of scallop circles to adhere the butterflies onto, in order to make it easier with arranging them.
I also hot foiled some small butterflies onto heat resistant acetate and used one of them to layer the single purple butterfly over.
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I decided that I wanted to layer some flowy, curved yellow leaves and shapes in the background behind the butterflies to help add more interest, movement and color to the card so I pulled out the Reason to Smile Wreath stamp set. When I stamped it onto my square card base, because I knew that my wreath of butterflies was slightly larger than the stamp, I moved the halves of the wreath apart by stamping the top and bottom halves separately. Then colored them both in with some colored pencils.
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The circle was adhered to the card base with more foam tape (dimension is life!) before I started arranging my butterflies. They were adhered with more foam tape to the scallop circle and I ended up alternating the heights in order to make it easier to fit them all together on the ring. The wings were gently bent up a bit, adding even more dimension. I decided that the purple one needed some fun purple branches around it to balance out the colors just a bit more so I die cut them out using the Garden Wreath die set.
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I put a sentiment strip across the middle and added a scattering of Sunshine yellow jewels and my butterfly wreath card was done. I really enjoy how the butterflies almost look like they’re about to flutter away. It’s such a gorgeous design and there are so many choices with the stamp set, stencil set, hot foil plate and die available.
Thanks so much, for coming by! I hope this has inspired you to make something new today.
-Anne
Gosh, such a gorgeous card, love it! ?
Hi Rachel! That’s super kind of you to say, thank you!!