Butterflies Galore by Janet Katz

I'm a sucker for butterflies on cards and this card is the evidence. I started work using a premade watercolor background. It was just an abstract painting using a few colors of bright pink ink on watercolor paper.

Next, I used the new Stained Glass Butterfly Collage die, which is a single large die, to cut out the butterfly "windows" from a piece of 110lb white cardstock. You can see the watercolor beneath. 

I was really taken with the three tiny butterflies towards the bottom of the die. I had a premade ink-blended background of three yellow Distress Oxides. I cut only the lower half of the die so I could pop out the tiny yellow butterflies. Next I wanted a bright pink butterfly outline. I was working on the card away from home and didn't have bright pink cardstock with me. No problem. I sponged Picked Raspberry Distress Ink onto a square of thick white cardstock and ran it through my die cutting machine with the Large Stained Glass Butterfly.

I cut out the coordinating background of this die from the white pearl paper inside the Poppystamps Vintage Pastel 6x6 Mirror paper pad. Finally, I cut the body of the butterfly from brown cardstock. I adhered these three together down the center only so the outline could lift off the pearl background.

I saw a card online with flowers added to butterfly wings, so I decided to do the same. I cut the smallest flowers from the same yellow ink-blended background using the Potpourri Flower Set and the Petite Blooms Flower Set. The green leaves are from the Floral Cake Pop Up Easel die set. I stacked two flowers for each bloom and glued a brown enamel dot in the center of each.

 

I adhered these to the butterfly and then used foam adhesive to glue the flowers to the butterfly. I adhered the white panel to a bright pink card base. Finally, I added a premade sentiment strip along with the 3 tiny yellow butterflies to the card.

 

Have you used a butterfly on a card lately? 

 

 

Supplies

 

2515 Stained Glass Butterfly collage craft die

2516 Large Stained Glass Butterfly and Background craft die

2469 Floral Cake Pop Up Easel craft die

2526 Petite Blooms Flower Set craft die

2512 Potpourri Flower Set craft die

FP1002 Vintage Pastel Mirror Pad 6x6 pack

Comments

Hi Janet, This is such a pretty card.
Lots of love from Patricia xx

Posted by: PATRICIA HOWARTH | 06/20/2022 at 03:17 PM

This card is so stunning!!
Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: Marilyn C | 06/21/2022 at 11:11 AM