Butterfly cards

Hi, we just got back from our summer holiday - camping on the Yorkshire coast. It was lovely. The English schools hadn't broken up yet, so it wasn't too busy :-)

I have a Particraft party booked for next week so I spent some time today making some mini-cards in preparation for that. I used the "Butterfly 1" unmounted stamp set from Particraft for the 2 very different butterfly mini-cards and the Bears unmounted stamp set, also from Particraft for the bear card. The mini-cards are a little smaller than A6.

The green card was painted with a mallard green radiant rain paint dabber, and the small butterfly border was stamped using the same paint. The large butterfly was stamped with black ink and painted with adirondack pens.

The black butterfly card was made by stamping the butterfly onto cream card and embossing it with clear embossing powder. It was painted with cosmic shimmer watercolours and cut out with a craft knife. The wording was stamped and glitter stars added using "dries clear" glue with a metal tip, and glitter.

It's great to be able to make such different cards from the same butterfly stamp.

For the bear card I stamped and embossed the bear with gold metallic embossing powder and painted it with nutmeg radiant rain paint dabber. I painted the heart with Scarlet sunset cosmic shimmer watercolour paint. The wording was also embossed with gold and the edges softened with the nutmeg paint.

Hope you like them - if you are coming to the Party in Shetland on Wednesday, you'll get to see them "in real life"!

Hope you are enjoying the Summer!

Teri