Friday, October 7, 2016

Wild Card - Day 1


I've been taking Online Card Classes' newest class, "Wild Card," this week. The focus of the class is on shaped & interactive cards. Debby Hughes had a lesson on Day 1 on making shaped cards. My card was inspired by hers.

I used the largest of DoCrafts' Xcut "Butterflies 1" dies to cut a piece of 140 lb. watercolor paper. I inked it with Distress inks in Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, & Candied Apple, and spritzed it with my homemade Perfect Pearls + water mist. When that had dried, I spritzed it lightly with my Distress Sprayer, to get larger water drops on it. I let that sit for several seconds, then blotted up the water, which bleached the color underneath.

For my greeting, I used Hero Arts' "Acts of Kindness" stamp set. I stamped one of the greetings on a vellum strip in Versamark ink, and heat embossed it with Recollections Gold Detail embossing powder. I also used a heart from the stamp set for the butterfly's body. I stamped it in Versafine Onyx Black ink, so I could more easily keep track of where I had stamped, and heat embossed it with Stampendous Marcasite embossing powder. (This is a black embossing powder that has sparkles in it. It's hard to get the glitter to show up in the photo!) When that had cooled, I adhered my vellum on top, and trimmed the ends of the strip to follow the outline of the butterfly.

I finished my card by creating a card base from white cardstock, and adhering my card front to that. I really like how this mini card came out! I will send it to Darlene at Live Love Cards, to send a note of encouragement to a Meals on Wheels recipient.

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp's Work It Wednesday: Use Red, Orange, Yellow, and/or Brown
Pile It On Challenge #118: Sparkle
Die Cut Divas: Time to Emboss
Incy Wincy Designs: All that Glitters

10 comments:

  1. This is so gorgeous! Love how you colored and embossed the butterfly-some lucky senior will love recieving this. Thanks for joining us at Die Cut Diva's embossing challenge!

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  2. Great idea to use the hearts on the body of the butterfly!

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  3. What a beautiful butterfly and I never think to use vellum so you can still see the beauty of the butterfly underneath. Lovely card.

    So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas.

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  4. Beautiful butterfly. Thank you for joining in the All That Glitters challenge at Incy Wincy Designs.

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  5. Beautiful card - love the colours!
    Thanks for playing at Pile It On!
    Helen x

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