just a butterfly note

Hello there! I’ve got another of my favourite stamp sets to share with you today – the ‘SHAC Love Japanese flowers & butterflies’, which I’ve combined with one of my favourite colour schemes, the pink & blue from Color Hues and the theme from Addicted to CAS

This is another of Clarity’s two-way overlay sets, with an outline image and a matching infill stamp for the background. I started by stamping the outline with black Archival ink ono a small square of stencil card, then sponged ‘broken china’ Distress Ink onto the infill (avoiding the butterfly and the flowers) and stamped that into place. With these stamps, I find it easiest to line the dry infill stamp up on the outline first and then pick it up on a mount – you know you’ve got it fully lines up when the image is nicely in focus. Having stamped the background, I pulled out the separate butterfly infill stamp, sponged ‘worn lipstick’ Distress Ink onto it and added that to the card (having lined it up first in the same way as the background).

I used pink & blue Pergaliner pencils to add more colour to the flowers and leaves, plus a micron pen to fill in the butterfly’s body, then sued a small square embedder to emboss a frame around the image.

I embossed a second frame with a larger embedder onto the front of a 6×6 card blank, mounted the topper on a piece of Waimea Falls companion paper and attached it to the card. I finished with a phrase from the ‘essentials sentiments’ set

This does feel like a last glimpse of summer with these pretty colours!

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  4. Deborah, your card is stunning yet soft like a breath of fresh air. I love thinking it’s a last tribute to summer. Your colors are beautiful, love this! We are so glad you joined us at Color Hues!

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