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This week I’ve been playing with the Floating & Fluttering stamp set and co-ordinating dies from the Stampin’ Up! January – June 2021 mini catalogue. I’m sure I’ve mentioned before how much I love butterflies and knew the moment I saw this bundle at our OnStage@Home event last November that I had to have it in my craft room.
So today I’m sharing two birthday cards made from one stamped piece of white card – I love this 2 for 1 technique and the largest stamp in this set includes 3 different butterflies and three bits of foliage so the stamping is done in a jiffy!
I was inspired to make these cards after doing an online class hosted by the very talented Emma Goddard, Coastal Crafter. It was such a fun class and the projects we made (five cards and one 3D project) are all gorgeous. I haven’t run any classes on-line yet but do keep in touch once a month with my lovely in-person class regulars via Zoom but can’t wait until we can get together again and craft. In the meantime, joining Emma’s classes and being part of her lovely crafting community is helping to keep me sane.
For my cards I started by repeatedly stamping the largest image in Memento ink on a piece of white card cut @ 10 cm x 14.2 cm. I used the single foliage stamp to fill any blank spots. Other stamps in the set made it easy to add colour using So Saffron and Mango Melody for the butterflies (adding the lightest colour to the stamp first and then rolling a part of the stamp in the darker colour to get a two tone effect) and Pear Pizzazz on the foliage. Drawing around the images with a Pool Party Stampin’ Blends make them really pop. The aperture was cut with the label die from the Fluttering dies and I used one for each card.
Both card bases are cut from one A4 sheet of So Saffron. On the first card, I stamped the sentiment from Happiest Birthday in Versamark in the first centre on the front and heat embossed with Black Glitter emboss powder (sadly retired). The stamped piece was added with dimensionals.
On the second card, I created a background on the front of the base by randomly stamping one of the sentiments from Itty Bitty Birthdays in So Saffron. On another piece of So Saffron cut @ 7 cm x 9.5 cm, using one of the stamps from Floating and Fluttering I created another tone on tone background and inked the edges. I glued the die cut piece to the panel and then added it to the base with dimensionals. Happy Birthday, another stamp from Itty Bitty Birthdays, was heat embossed in white on a thin strip of Basic Black and added with dimensionals. The gems on both cards are Basic Rhinestones coloured with a black sharpie.
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As always, thanks for stopping by and remember keep it crafty.
Lynnie C
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