Butterfly Birthday

 

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Isn't this Layered Mixed Butterfly stencil beautiful!

It's a new one from A Colorful Life Designs and I just had to play with it to make a card.

With this one, you get the details and the butterfly outline as well.

Today, I just used the details portion of the stencil.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I laid the Butterfly stencil onto a piece of white cardstock then decided what colours I wanted to use to ink it up with.  I finally settled on these Distress Oxide ink colours:  Picked Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers and Shaded Lilac
• Now, I was feeling very lazy and didn't want to take the time to mask off all the areas that I wanted to use different colours on so, I decided to use my finger to apply the ink.
• I rubbed the Distress Oxide pads onto a piece of acetate, one at a time, sprayed with water to dilute and then dabbed the colours onto the stencil using my finger.  I could really control where the colours went and keep them where I wanted them to be without blending together too much.
• After I had the butterfly all inked up, I fussy cut it out, splattered it with my white Posca pen and set aside to dry.
• I stenciled the body of the butterfly with some Black Soot DOX ink and cut that out as well.
• Next, I stamped and white heat embossed the sentiment and die cut it out.
• To add more interest, I embossed another piece of white cardstock using an old Sizzix Embossing Folder. 
• I glued the embossed piece to some pale mauve cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I pop dotted the butterfly over that, glued on the butterfly body and pop dotted the birthday sentiment over the center of the butterfly.

Here is the stencil I used:

Layered Mixed Butterfly

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Seize the Birthday- BUTTERFLIES or HUMMINGBIRDS

Simon Says Wed.- FEMININE

Just Us Girls- FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Sentiment Strips (TE)

Inks- Distress Oxides; Versamark

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Layered Mixed Butterfly (A Colorful Life Designs); EB folder;

white embossing powder (Lawn Fawn); Posca pen