Moody Mauve with Beautiful Butterflies
Initially, the large butterfly image was gold embossed a couple of times on Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper using Versamark ink, Wow Gold Emboss powder from the Metallic Emboss Powder Pack, Heat Tool and the Embossing Accessories pack. The embossed butterflies were water-coloured with Moody Mauve, Berry Burst and Bubble Bath Classic inks as you can see below. Once dry, it was die cut with the 2nd largest open die.
This is the 2nd butterfly that was coloured. I had created 2, just in case 1 went haywire. The butterfly on the card was also dry embossed in the Beautiful Butterflies Embossing Folder. The gold veins matched perfectly with the dry embossed image and it added special dimension. I acknowledge, that the dry embossing is hard to see given the abundance of ribbons - you will need to squint at the photographs and use some imagination to see the indentations
A panel of Moody Mauve card-stock was folded in half and the largest butterfly die was laid over the folded section to create a butterfly card with the fold at the top edge of the wings. The top section was scored to fold along the “line” between the top wings and bottom wings. The same die was used to cut another single butterfly. The two pieces together have created a simple easel fun fold in the shape of a butterfly. Some blending in Moody Mauve ink was added to the edge of the single butterfly. Don’t do what I did and add it last - it would be better to add it at this stage, before the bottom wings of the single butterfly were adhered to the top of the folded double butterfly.
Two detailed butterflies were cut from Basic White card-stock and then cut in half down through the body. The half die cut butterflies were tucked under the water-coloured butterfly that had been popped up on a strip of Dimensionals. Two sets of lower wings were used but only one set of top wings were needed. A splattering of White Craft ink was added with a medium Water Painter.
Some Iridescent Striped Trim, coloured with a Light Moody Mauve Stampin’ Blend, was cut in half lengthwise. It was combined with 2 lengths of Gold Twisted Trim to tie a large bow. The bow was adhered in place with Glue Dots.
The base section of the card was covered with a Moody Mauve piece of Wildly Flowering DSP. A small detailed die cut a Basic White butterfly and the body was popped up on a Mini Dimensional. Two seperate sentiments were white heat embossed on Moody Mauve card-stock and fussy cut. The sentiments were popped up on Dimensionals as well. I noticed when photographing the card that either the small butterfly or either of the sentiments could be used as the stopper to hold the front panel in standing position. Check out the last 3 photos and the next photo to see the card standing using the different “stoppers”.
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