Bright butterflies

 

 

 

Another week, another card. I don't know what it is that makes butterflies so great for cardmaking: their relatively simple shape, the multitude of colours you can make them in, the idea of their lightness or something fourth? Whatever the answer, I often find myself creating cards where butterflies play a role. This week is no exception.

 

My first step was to cut a piece of watercolour paper to a size that would fit in the butterf ly folder from the Textured Impressions Embossing Folders 2PK - Butterfly & Garden Set and run it throug my Big Shot.

 

 

Next up I used masking tape to attach the embossed piece of watercolour paper to a heavy piece of cardboard with the debossed side facing up. Then I drenched the entire paper with water and once it was good and wet I started adding colours to the debossed butterflies. Using Distress Inks and a lot of water I coloured in som of the butterflies in 4-5 different colours and the added a light touch of yellow or pink to the rest of the butterflies so they wouldn't be stark white against the coloured ones. It looks a hot mess while you work on it but don't give up - once you let it dry (or take a heat gun to it) it will sharpen up some and once you cut it into size and mount it on your card it looks gorgeous.

 

 

I like the fact that the colours bleed outside the lines of each butterfly - because you can still tell one butterfly from the other because of the debossing.

 

 

I needed to add a sentiment to my card and I decided to go with the Thinlits Die Set 12PK - Ornate Labels as a place for my sentiment to go. The set gives you the option to die cut various sizes and styles of labels and then layer them for a cool look.

 

 

 

Besides from the label with the sentiment, I tied a large black bow around the patterned paper and added some enamel dots in colours similar to the once I used to colour the butterflies. Everything was then mounted on pink cardstock and added to a black card base.

 

Supply list:

Sizzix Big Shot Starter Kit (Powder Blue & Teal)
Sizzix Accessory - Magnetic Platform for Wafer-Thin Dies
Textured Impressions Embossing Folders 2PK - Butterfly & Garden Set

Thinlits Die Set 12PK - Ornate Labels

Cardstock

Distress Inks

Enamel dots (My Mind's Eye)

Ribbon

 

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Endnu en uge, endnu et kort. Jeg ved ikke, hvad det er med sommerfugle, der gør, at de er så velegnede til kort? Er det deres enkle form, lette udtryk, de mange farver man kan lave dem i eller noget helt fjerde? Hvad svaret end er, så ender jeg ofte med at vælge sommerfugle, når jeg laver kort. Og denne uges projekt er ingen undtagelse.

 

Første skridt var at skære et stykke vandfarvepapir til i en størrelse, der passer i sommerfuglefolderen fra Textured Impressions Embossing Folders 2PK - Butterfly & Garden Set, og løbe det igennem min Big Shot.

 

Herefter brugte jeg malertape til at sætte vandfarvepapiret fast til et stykke kraftigt karton - med den debossede side opad. Så druknede jeg papiret i masser af vand, og da det var gennemblødt, gik jeg i gang med at tilføje farve til hver enkel sommerfugl. Jeg brugte Distress Inks og masser af vand til at farve nogle af sommerfuglene i 4-5 forskellige farver, mens jeg gav resten af dem et let strøg af enten gul eller lyserød, så de ikke var kridhvide i forhold til de farvede sommerfugle. Det ser farligt ud, mens man arbejder med det, men når man lader det tørre (eller kører sin varmepistol henover det, til det tørrer), bliver det skarpt igen. Når man så skærer det til og monterer det på et kort, ser det fantastisk ud.

 

Jeg synes, at det ser fedt ud, at farverne flyder ud over kanterne af sommerfuglene, fordi man på grund af debossingen stadig tydeligt kan skelne den ene sommerfugl fra den anden.

 

Der skulle også en hilsen på kortet, og jeg valgte at bruge Thinlits Die Set 12PK - Ornate Labels til det formål. Det er et fedt sæt, hvor man har mulighed for at mixe og matche forskellige størrelser og mønstre af labels.

 

Jeg bandt også en stor sort sløjfe omkring det mønstrede papir, tilsatte lidt enamel dots, monterede hele molevitten på et stykke pink karton og derefter på en sort kortbase, inden jeg besluttede, at kortet var færdigt.

 

 

Ingredienser:

Sizzix Big Shot Starter Kit (Powder Blue & Teal)
Sizzix Accessory - Magnetic Platform for Wafer-Thin Dies
Textured Impressions Embossing Folders 2PK - Butterfly & Garden Set

Thinlits Die Set 12PK - Ornate Labels

Karton

Distress Inks

Enamel dots (My Mind's Eye)

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