Sometimes a card comes together really easily and sometimes it takes me forever to make my original idea work. This card was one of the take forever kind. I had the idea of butterflies on a slimline card so using the GINA K BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLIES I stamped and colored 4 of the images that I thought would work on the card and die cut using the co-ordinating dies. I first ink blended on Neenah solar white with distress inks and then used a 3d EMBOSSING FOLDER FROM MEMORY BOX that I had to emboss twice to be able to cover the whole card. And yes, one was upside down but since it was an overall pattern once the butterflies were on, you couldn't tell. Once it was embossed I went over it with a slightly darker ink to bring out the highlights. However, when I placed the butterflies on the card they didn't seem grounded so I used WAFFLE FLOWER SLIM LAYER DIES to cut a border die out of TONIC SILKY SKY metallic paper. That contained the butterflies but I felt the colored ones overpowered the card. Using an older MFT beautiful butterfly stamp set and dies, I stamped on heavyweight vellum using a sparkle embossing powder and placed those in between the colored butterflies. I added a few jewels in between the butterflies. I used the CONCORD & 9TH PERFECT PAIRINGS BIRTHDAY DIE for the inside sentiment and one of the leftover colored butterflies. For the envelope I used a 12 x 12 paper from my stash and the TIM HOLTZ PERSPECTIVE BUTTERFLY DIE and die cut the name with the same Tonic silky sky paper. Probably the most elaborate card I have ever made, hope you like it.
