Saturday 26 January 2019

Pootlers Blog Hop - Sale-A-Bration - Botanical Butterfly


How exciting new catalogue lots of new yummies to stamp with the choices are amazing there is something for everyone, I have opted for this hop to keep it super simple and more or less let the Designer Series Paper do all the work.

These papers are AMAZING I love butterflies and they do have a very special meaning for me, my nephew Jamieson passed away at 4days old he was very premature but was doing great and was off all the machines but the feeding tube they had inserted the day before pierced the wall of his heart and the fluid constricted the heart from pumping the name for it is cardiac tamponade but almost immediately we started calling him our little butterfly, Jamieson would be 7yrs old in May had he survived, so as you can imagine butterflies are very close to our hearts and using them makes me smile as I remember how strong and brave our wee butterfly was.

Anyway for our card I chose the black and white 
Floral and Butterfly Design
I cut the DSP down to 13.8cm x 9.5cm
and layered it on to Basic Black Cardstock measuring 14.3cm x 10cm
and layered them on to a pre bought white A6 Cardbase
I then used the sentiment from Butterfly Gala
and using Tuxedo Black Ink Stamped it on to a scrap of Whisper White and trimmed down to leave a nice border I then adhered that to Basic Black cardstock and trimmed it down leaving a 0.5cm border and attached dimensionals and positioned it in the lower right section of my card.
I then chose to colour one butterfly using my stampin blends to make it stand out I coloured the whole butterfly with Light Mango Melody and then added some Dark Mango Melody and some  Light and Dark Calypso Coral for shading areas, I used the Light Mango Melody to blend the colours together, Once I was done I wanted to add some shimmer/sparkle So I used some of our Vegas Gold Shimmer Paint (which is now retired but you can use the champagne mist to create a very similar effect)
and to finish it off I added 3 Basic Rhinestones
Simple and yet classical looking card.








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19 comments:

  1. Stunning card Karen live the beautiful butterfly dps (its Karen Tolley lol) xx

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  2. Stunning card Karen love the beautiful DSP butterflies x

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  3. I love these papers and you card is lovely Karen

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    1. thank you Angelina x the papers are stunning x

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  4. Love this DSP Pack. Beautiful card. X

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    1. Thank you Deborah x me too x it is definitely one I will be hoarding ;) x

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  5. Beautiful card, my favourite dsp x

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  6. Lovely card Karen - I am in love with this paper! x

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  7. Gorgeous colouring of the butterfly

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  8. Fab! These DSP are so so beautiful. Lovely card, Karen x

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  9. Love the splash of colour, just beautiful Karen!

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  10. Beautiful Karen. Anything using butterflies is a winner with me. xx

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