The Sweetest Butterfly

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Hey crafty friends…it’s Michelle back on the blog sharing a new colour and fabulous colour combination with you! This week I decided to use the gorgeous new Candy Buffet Trio, which is part of the new May 2024 release. This is the prettiest trio of soft pastel shades of lilacs, blues and purples paired with iridescent sparkles…..I thought it was perfect for a beautiful butterfly. Follow along for all the details on how I made The Sweetest Butterfly. Let’s get started, shall we!

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The Sweetest Butterfly

Creating the Background

1. For the background, ink up a script background stamp using the ultra slow drying embossing ink pad and stamp on a piece of watercolour paper cut to 4.25×5.5″. Sprinke on opaque bright white embossing powder and heat set with your heat embossing tool.
2. Add a wash of watercolour or pigment powders using a coordinating shade of purple, making sure to only add colour to the center of the script embossed background and doing it kind of roughly, not going to the dges of the paper. You want it to have a loose kind of organic feel to it . I used pigment powders here, but watercolour will work equally as well and give you the exact same look. This will give you a resist effect, as the embossing powder will resist the wet powders and will not settle on top of it, allowing the embossed script to show through.
3. Once the background is dry, add some black paint splatters concentrating on the center of it, where the wash of purple is. Set this aside to fully dry.

Creating the Butterfly

1. For the butterfly, take a piece of superior smooth white cardstock and stamp the large butterfly image using archival black ink or a black ink that will withstand the embossing ink and not smudge. Be sure to use a stamp positioner for this, as the image will stamped a second time. Leave the stamp in the stamp positioner, making sure not to move it at all.
2. The butterfly consists of 5 stencils. Take the 1st stencil and secure your stamped image securely to the stencil and go direct with your ink pad to the stencil. This first layer of the butterfly is the of largest of the wings. Sprinkle on Grapefruit Fizzos embossing powder, from the trio. Remove the stencil and heat set using the heat embossing tool.
3. Add your second stencil, which will be the bottom wings and add your embossig ink. Remove the stencil and sprinkle on Rock Crystals embossing powder and heat set.
4. Add the 3rd stencil for the middle and smallest wings, add your ink and sprinkle the lightest shade of the embossing trio, Fairy Clouds and heat set. For some of the inking of the stencils I added some of the ink from the Mixed Media Embossing Brush tool to my glass work top and added the ink to the stencil using a foam ink blending tool reserved for using with embossing ink. Both methods work just as well.
5. The last 2 stencils are comprised of the tips of the wings and the body of the butterfly. For the top and bottom wings as well as the body, I added ink as before and then sprinkled on Ebony embossing powder and for the middle wings, I used the Rock Crystals embossing powder, to keep it in the same colour family.
6. Add the butterfly image back to your stamp positioner and make sure it is excatly in the same position as when it was stamped the first time. As the original stamped image has faded a bit by now and is slightly covered from all of the heat embossing , by stamping it a 2nd time and heat embossing it, this will bring the details back to the butterfly and allow the lines of the image to show. Ink up the image using embossing ink and sprinkle on Ebony Super Fine Detail embossing powder. Make sure you press down well on the stamp to get a good impression, but not so hard that you risk getting too thick of the fine lines of the butterfly (if that makes sense lol). As we will be embossing on top of an already embossed image, you want to ensure you get a good impression. Heat set using your heat embossing tool. Diecut the butterfly using the coordinating die.

Assembling the Card

1. Trim the background piece down 1/2″ on each side, so that the final piece measures 3.75×5″. Add it to an A2 cardbase using liquid adhesive.
2. The butterfly was added using liquid adhesive on the center body of the butterfly and some foam tape on the wings to pop them up off the background.
3. The sentiment was cut out from theFab Foilers – Sweet Sentiments. These sentiments were designed to be foiled, but they work just as well in their natural state of black on the white cardstock. The sentiment was popped up with some small foam circles.
4. A few sparkly gems were added to it to finish it off.

Thank you so much for stopping by today for a new and gorgeous colour combo. Did you get a good look at all of that sparkle and iridescence??!!! It is gorgeous…..absolute perfection! Thanks again and I wish you all the most wonderful and colourful day! Until next time 🙂

Supplies

• WOW! Trio Candy Buffet Embossing Powder
• Opaque Bright White Embossing Powder
• Primary Ebony Super Fine Embossing Powder
• Clear Ultra Slow Drying Embossing Pad
• WOW! Dual Speed Heat Tool
• WOW! Superior Smooth White Cardstock
• WOW! Mixed Media Embossing Brush
• WOW! Fab Foilers Sweet Sentiments (by Natasha Davies)
• PinkFresh Studio Butterflies stamp set, stencils and coordinating die
• purple pigment powder or watercolour
• black watercolour paint or gouache
• paint brush
• foam ink blending tool
• Misti stamp positioner tool
• Crafty Meraki Magical Iris Sparkle gems
• liquid and foam adhesive

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