Beautiful Butterflies Die

Look what I found to make my butterfly antenna. It is an old heart shaped paper clip! I cut it in half, flipped the pieces around and voila! Look closely above the card and you will see one uncut. I bet you have these in with your supplies someplace!! The rest of the card was a snap to put together. I stamped the flower stamp in pear pizzazz then colored over the flowers with a marina mist marker. I did this twice on the butterfly.

Sets: word play, charming

Cardstock: whisper white, marina mist

Ink: marina mist, pear pizzazz

Accessories: big shot, beautiful butterflies die, elegant bouquet embossing folder, marina mist ribbon, marina mist marker, heart shaped paper clip, rhinestones, mono glue

Word Play Butterfly Card

I am still on the butterfly theme. This time I used our butterfly punch. Before I punched out the vellum butterfly I ran the vellum through the Big Shot using the dotted folder. What a great effect! I sponged the edges of all the cardstock pieces with pink. It helps soften the paper. I used wire to make the butterfly antenna because it sparkles. The butterfly is mounted with dimensionals. The vellum wings are bent up.

Sets: word play
Cardstock: pretty in pink, very vanilla, certainly celery
Ink: white craft ink, pretty in pink
Accessories: clear embossing powder, Big Shot, little leaves, dotted folder, butterfly punch, vellum paper, dotted pretty in pink designer paper, pretty in pink button, sponge, rhinestones, wire, glue dots, pretty in pink wide striped and narrow taffeta ribbon, dimensionals

Word Play Wedding

I am working on another workshop. Maybe Brides and Babies or Beautiful Butterflies. Hmmm...

This card is very elegant in all whisper white and silver. The big butterfly is 3 layers. Two of the largest and one of the dotted. The wings are bent out so all three layers show. It is on a white branch form the bird punch. White on white doesn't photograph well. The saying is embossed in silver. The bow is tied with a small filigree brad.

Sets: Word Play

Cardstock: whisper white, silver

Ink: versamark

Accessories: silver embossing powder, Big Shot, beautiful wings die, vintage wallpaper embossing folder, filigree brads, rhinestones, silver cord, corner rounder, organza ribbon

Every Moment

The camera could not quite the beauty of this card. I think we will be making this one for our October 16th class. I stamped the woodgrain background stamp on chocolate chip with chocolate chip ink. Then I stamped the flower from Every Moment using the masking technique with black stazon. The words are from Word Play, also stamped with black stazon. I used a blender pen and the razzleberry ink pad to color in the flower petals. I used an olive marker for the stems and a daffodil marker for the centers. I punched old olive paper with the border punch and added it to the top and bottom. Then I spritzed the whole thing using a bashful blue marker. After I mounted this I added three gold brads. Then I put crystal effects over the daffodil centers. Wow... beautiful!

Aviary

This is one of my favorite sets in the new catalog. For this one I used Pair Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, and Poppy Parade. I stamped the cages in black Stazon, stamped the birds over the cages, then added some of the Rhinestone bling just to add a little sparkle.Wish Big comes from Word Play. I used markers on the rubber to get the multicolor effect. I love the Daffodil bird standing on the B. I added a pewter Jumbo Eyelet on the side and threaded the Pear Pizzaz ribbon through it. I used the Ticket Corner punch on the layers. I had to start this card over more times than I wish to admit because the black Stazon kept smearing so be careful.