This started with me just wanting play with the Concord and 9th butterfly stencil and dies I got some time ago and really haven’t done much with … and ended up being lots of fun with leaves and pretty yellow butterflies!
In total these three cards probably took over 6 hours of work but they were made in stages. I actually had made all three backgrounds in a completely different playtime and stuck them in my backgrounds to finish off pile with no knowledge I would end up grabbing them all in one play session to play with the butterflies!
I have done posts on using the zero waste leaf die before so please check them out. These were three in one go type of things … a green mop up piece, a Kraft one and then plenty of white versions underneath for dimension. The third panel is the leftover bits from the other two.
Now onto the stars of the show … those butterflies.
This was my first set …. Soft yellows with a touch of pink added in … then die cut. Then used the same colours to ink some cardstock and that’s where the little ones got die cut along with the mat layer for the sentiment.
Stacked up lots of white butterfly die cuts under the inked version for dimension.
Then loads of tiny pearls into the space around the leaves for embellishment.
I love that soft background with the subtly patterned butterflies.
Next up this Kraft quite bold background onto white. This time used the patterned dies and also die cut the bodies for the three main butterflies from the Kraft to coordinate them with the background.
Again stacked the die cuts for dimension and also raised the centre of the sentiment too.
Just three pearls for embellishment that I added some peach alcohol ink to so they coordinated.
And finally this was a really busy background with both the green and the Kraft.
So it needed bolder butterflies. In addition to the stencilling I added gold wink of Stella to some of the pattern which gave depth of colour and some sparkle.
I didn’t bother adding die cuts under the butterflies … I figured this had enough going on to not need the additional dimension to them… I did however add a little foam under the sentiment strip.
As the background had both glittery circles and glossy circles I didn’t add any more embellishment.
Love all three of these cards and really surprised myself as I wasn’t expecting this was what would happen when I sat down to play with the stencil. It has however cemented my belief that having backgrounds ready to go is super helpful when making cards … so need to make sure I routinely sit and just create backgrounds so I can easily get a card made that is extra special like these without 6 hours worth of work all in one go!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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