Gilded Butterfly Beauty

Hello!

Welcome to the Butterfly Inspiration Hop!

Butterflies are simply one of those magical creatures!  They start their life as a worm with legs and then transform into something delicately beautiful!  

One of the new products introduced in the Jan-June 2021 mini catalog is Gilded Leafing so of course I wanted to try it.  Since the blog hop is all about butterflies I decided the Butterfly Beauty Dies would be perfect.  This die set is designed for layering to create the gorgeous details you see below.

Stunning!

Patience is the main technique used for this card 😄

Die cutting these two layers, getting them lined up and applying the leafing to show the detail is a lesson in patience for sure, but worth the time! 

Notice the brilliance and depth the gilded leafing provides.  The gilded leafing is a bit tricky to work with as it is thinner than tissue and in very delicate flake-like pieces.  It's best to take a few flakes at a time and gently press them onto the areas where you want it.  To smooth it on and have the detailed cutouts show I used an extremely soft-bristled brush and very slowly and gently worked in circular motions to brush off the excess.  You can see there are some rough edges and that's part of the charm with this product.  Too much rubbing takes away the shimmer as the adhesive starts to peak through.

The Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper provides a beautiful background for these butterflies. It's gradient coloring suggests seeing the butterflies just as the sun is setting and also works beautifully to fill in the wings on each butterfly.  The addition of a few Blue Adhesive-backed Gems provides the finishing touch.

The Butterfly Beauty Dies and the Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper are both retiring with the expiration of the 2020-2021 annual catalog so if you love them and want them, I encourage you order right away to avoid missing out.

DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS...

Materials and measurements:

• Paper
• Basic Black - 4-1/4 x 11, scored at 5-1/2 for card base, 2 pieces of 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 for die-cut butterflies
• Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper - 4 x 5-1/4
• Embellishments:
• Gilded Leafing
• Blue Adhesive-backed Gems

Tools & Supplies:

• Tools:
• Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine
• Paper Trimmer
• Take your Pick Tool
• Adhesives and more:
• Adhesive sheets, Stampin' Seal

Assembly Tips & Techniques:

• For this design I die cut the detailed butterfly die with an adhesive sheet on both the top and bottom of the cardstock. I ran it back and forth through the Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine three times to make sure I had nice clean cuts through all the layers.
• I would not have attempted this project without the adhesive sheets for both the layering of the butterflies and for attaching the gilded leafing.
• Slowly and carefully open the container of gilded leafing!  If you plan to keep it in the container it comes in, I recommend closing the lid as soon as you remove the pieces you are working with so the air movement doesn't blow pieces out of the jar.  The other recommendation is to transfer the contents to a larger container with a lid that seals tightly.
• Make sure you have a clear work surface when working with the Gilded Leafing as it floats around.  Pick up what you don't use and put it back in the container to use for your next project.
• The Take Your Pick tool is your perfect assistant for pickup and placement of small items like the gems.  There are multiple tips for a variety of uses.
• Have fun!  Enjoy the process and enjoy the result.

Enjoy all the beautiful creations by everyone today!

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Product List

Butterfly Beauty Dies [151819]	Artistry Blooms Designer Series Paper [152495]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121045]	Adhesive Sheets [152334]
Gilded Leafing Embellishment [154560]	Blue Adhesive-Backed Gems [153547]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Paper Trimmer [152392]
Take Your Pick [144107]	Stampin' Seal [152813]	Grid Paper [130148]

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A Wrapped Bouquet with a twist

Greetings!

I have an amazing Stampin' Up! upline leader in Dawn Olchefske.  As a leader she does a fabulous job of giving her team monthly challenges which we can opt to participate in.  They usually consist of creating at least 9 different cards or projects.  The criteria for one of the designs this month is to pair something unexpected.  I'm sure you'll agree that we all tend to have favorites we pair our creations with, whether it be a certain type of embellishment, a textured embossing folder, a color or DSP, etc. It took a bit of time for me to decide what would be an unexpected pairing that would still produce a pleasing result.  I really love how this turned out!

an unexpected pairing

  Camouflage and flowers - a gorgeous duo!

This Camouflage background stamp is beautiful in the way it is designed!  It looks like I used at least three different ink colors doesn't it?  It's all one big stamp!  The way the rubber is textured it holds more or less ink to provide this varied look.  Ingenious!  This makes it very easy to create an interesting background with no fuss or difficulty of lining up multiple stamped images to create this look.

The Wrapped Bouquet bundle is a new introduction in the Jan-June 2021 mini catalog.  The little newspaper wrap is a stamp that coordinates to a die which is scored to fold into the finished piece as you see on this card.  How fun is that!  I first tried the newspaper stamp on Crumb Cake cardstock which is the color the Camouflage background is stamped onto.  It looked okay but I wanted something visually lighter so I thought, aha, vellum!  The newsprint is heat embossed on the vellum with the Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder.  It gives it the lighter appearance, almost like a tissue, don't you think?  

The Petal Pink is such a beautiful color to provide a nice balance against the darker tones. The Layering Ovals dies offer a wonderful selection of sizes to help frame your project. Cutting a nice large oval to put behind the bouquet really helps spotlight it and give it a degree of separation from the background.  For the finishing touch a lovely little bow out of Linen Thread and yellow dots from the Ice Cream Corner Sprinkles to draw attention to the unpainted flowers.

DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS...

Materials and measurements:

• Stamps:
• Camouflage 
• Wrapped Bouquet bundle * (Wrapped Bouquet stamp set & Wrapped Flowers dies)
• Paper
• Petal Pink - 4-1/4 x 11-1/2, scored at 5-1/2 for card base, 4 x 3 for oval die cut
• Crumb Cake - 4-1/8 x 5-3/8
• Very Vanilla - 3 x 3 
• Vellum - 2-1/2 x 3
• Ink:
• Crumb Cake 
• Old Olive  
• Blender Pens**
• Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends
• Petal Pink Stampin' Blends
• Versamark ® and Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder
• Embellishments:
• Ice Cream Corner Sprinkles
• Linen thread - 10"

Tools & Supplies:

• Tools:
• Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine
• Heat Tool
• Clear Block Bundle - all the blocks you'll need for every project you do
• Adhesives and more:
• Stampin' dimensionals, multi-purpose liquid glue, mini glue dots

*A bundle is a stamp set & die or stamp set & punch 

sold together as one item #

Use the Bundle Item # to receive a 10% discount!

Assembly Tips & Techniques:

• The Camouflage background is inked with Old Olive, stamped onto Crumb Cake cardstock.
• **To get the two large leaves to be Old Olive; ink your stamp with Crumb Cake then take a Blender Pen and remove the ink from the two leaves, wiping off the tip onto your grid paper as needed to get rid of the ink during removal. After you've removed the Crumb Cake ink, dip your Blender Pen tip into the Old Olive stamp pad to grab the ink.  Color in the leaves with Old Olive,  then breathe on the whole stamp to remoisten the ink before stamping onto my cardstock.  You may have to do this a couple times to get the look you want - it takes a little practice :).
• The flowers are colored in by using both the Light and Dark Stampin' Blend duos. I used Petal Pink on the small flowers, using the writing tip and dotting each petal.  The larger flowers are colored in Daffodil Delight and I again used the writing tip, drawing the lines using the stamped lines as guides. 
• Before inking your cardstock for heat embossing, I recommend rubbing a piece of wax paper over the cardstock.  This eliminates any sticky spots that may allow embossing powder to stick on areas not stamped.  Heat emboss the image onto your vellum cardstock before die cutting.  This particular die has multiple score lines for folding up the piece to look like a wrap for the bouquet.
• The ice cream corner sprinkles are adhered by using a small dot of multi-purpose liquid glue.  The bouquet is tucked into the wrap and adhered to the oval with Stampin' dimensionals.  The linen thread bow is adhered with a mini glue dot.

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Product List

Wrapped Bouquet Bundle (English) [156217]	Camouflage Cling Background Stamp [152547]	Layering Ovals Dies [151771]	Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146985]
Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101650]	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101856]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090]
Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116]	Blender Pens [102845]	Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154893]	Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154883]
Versamark Pad [102283]	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]	Linen Thread [104199]	Ice Cream Corner Sprinkles [154568]
Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Clear Block Bundle [118491]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]
Mini Glue Dots [103683]	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755]

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I appreciate you stopping by!  I hope you've been inspired to try something a little bit different and flex those creative muscles.  Have a beautiful day! 😁

Daisy Lane and friends

 Hello, Hello!

It's a beautiful sunshiny day and Spring is in the air!  

Spring to me means happy flowers everywhere and daisies are certainly a flower that brings a smile to my face!    

I have loved the Daisy Lane stamp set ever since it came out and wanted to feature it in case I have to bid it a fond farewell soon. We are within the last 6-7 weeks of the current annual catalog which means we'll be saying goodbye to some things in the near future. The Forever Greenery DSP will most likely be retired as well and it is a paper collection that easily works for every season of the year.  Pairing these two together to create a springy card is what I am sharing with you today.

A simply happy card

A great feature of this card style is how it shows off your stamped image by extending beyond the folded card base. There's still plenty of room on the inside of the base for you to personalize it with your handwritten note. Another great feature is the gorgeous font for the word friend and it's such a nice size!  No need to get wordy when one word will do 😁.

Are you feeling the spring breeze?  The beautiful greenery on this background paper feels light and airy with the leaves scattered on the white background.  Think of DSP as your assistant!  It's a fantastic tool for deciding color combinations,  providing wonderful backgrounds or accents that are quick and easy to include, and because they are printed in Stampin' Up!'s exclusive colors, you NEVER have to wonder if they will coordinate with your inks, cardstock, markers or embellishments!  Stampin' Up! is always the one-stop shop for all of your needs and you can be confident in the coordination of every layer.

This card really packs in a lot of texture.  Not only is it suggested with the background paper, but with all the other additions as well.  The wooden elements are beautiful and sit behind the daisy perfectly as it is raised on a Stampin' dimensional.  The Old Olive/Pretty Peacock reversible ribbon wonderfully enhances the gorgeous blue adhesive-backed gems.  These gems are so iridescent!  The gems provide a wonderful array of color and the great news is they will be in the new 2021-2022 annual catalog so we get to use them for another year +!!  Yippee!  They were introduced in the holiday catalog this past winter and I'm very happy they will be available for another year.

 DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS...

Materials and measurements:

• Stamps:
• Daisy Lane stamp set
• Paper
• Bumblebee - 4-1/4 x 8-1/2, scored at 4-1/4 for card base
• Garden Green - 4 x 3-1/4
• Basic White - 3-3/4 x 3, 2 x 4 piece for daisy layers
• Forever Greenery DSP - 4 x 4 
• Ink:
• Bumblebee
• Old Olive - stamped off once for fern leaf
• Bumblebee - stamped off once for each daisy layer
• Garden Green - for the word Friend
• Embellishments:
• In Good Taste elements
• Blue Adhesive-backed Gems
• 3/8" Old Olive/Pretty Peacock reversible ribbon - 16"
• Early Espresso Stampin' Write marker
• Shimmery Crystal Effects

Tools and Supplies:

• Tools:
• Medium Daisy Punch
• Paper Trimmer
• Adhesives and more:
• Stampin' dimensionals, multi-purpose liquid glue, mini glue dots

Assembly Tips & Techniques:

• Stamping Off means to stamp the image onto your grid paper once or twice before stamping onto your cardstock.  This creates a much softer hue of the ink you are using. 
• For placement of the top part of the card, place the folded base in the lower left corner of your grid paper so the bottom edge of the card is on the bottom ruled line.  The top folded edge of your card should be on the 4-1/4" grid line.  Place the stamped framed image piece so that top edge is on the 5-1/2 measurement and center 1/2" in from either side.  This way your card will still fit in the regular envelope as the overall dimension is 4-1/4 x 5-1/2.
• The DSP is a 4 x 4 piece which gives you a total of 9 pieces out of one sheet of DSP.  This is a great size for getting the most out of one 12x12 sheet and avoiding any waste.
• This reversible ribbon is an organdy ribbon which means it has great body to it.  Your bows will tie beautifully and once you shaped them how you want them they will hold their shape very well.
• Use the Early Espresso writing tip on your Stampin' Write marker and repeatedly dot the center of the daisy to create the look on this card.  For added impact, put little drops of Shimmery Crystal Effects on top. Allow for drying time after you do this step, so resist handling the daisy for at least an hour or two following application.

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Product List

Daisy Lane Cling Stamp Set [149325]	Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper [152492]	Medium Daisy Punch [149517]	Garden Green 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [102584]
Bumblebee 8-1/2X11 Cardstock [153077]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090]	Bumblebee Classic Stampin' Pad [153116]
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [147089]	In Good Taste Elements [152476]	Old Olive/Pretty Peacock 3/8" (1 Cm) Reversible Ribbon [149496]	Blue Adhesive-Backed Gems [153547]
Shimmery Crystal Effects [150892]	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [147158]	Paper Trimmer [152392]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

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I hope your day has been filled with sunshine and happiness!! See you next time!