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My name is Natalie and I love anything to do with card/paper. I have been a papercrafter for many years now and I never get bored playing with all the wonderful products available. I've been married to my wonderful husband Nathan for 35years now and we are still very much in love with each other as the first day we met each other. We have 3 wonderful children and 5 gorgeous grandchildren so we have lots to be thankful for. Since joining Stampin' Up! in 2018 I've grown so much in confidence with myself and I even tackle technology, which for me is a huge step to have taken, but I'm getting there slowly.

Monday, 8 March 2021

Butterfly Bouquet - Thank you card

 

Hello everyone and welcome back to another Kylie Bertucci Monthly International Blog Highlights. Can you believe we are already in to March and it's that time again. Well as some o you might be aware I was very fortunate to have come in the top ten last month, which was absolutely amazing for me so once againa huge thankyou to all of you who voted for me, let's see if I can do it again!!
Today I've made a card using the really beautiful new early release of the Butterfly Brilliance bundle. I love to see butterflies and just couldn't resist getting this bundle to use. So on with the card.............


Materials needed:

Basic white thick cardstock

1 piece 5-7/8" x 8-1/4" scored on longside at 4-1/8" - cardbase

1 piece 4" x 5-3/4" - inside card layer

1 piece 3-7/8" x 5-1/2" - front of card layer

2 pieces approx 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" - die cut solid butterfly base layer


Misty Moonlight cardstock

1 piece 1-15/16" x 5-5/8" - front of card layer

Scrap piece to punch out 3 x 1-1/2" circles

1 piece approx 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" - die cut detailed butterfly top layer


Just Jade cardstock

1 piece 1-15/16" x 5-5/8" - front of card layer

Scrap piece to punch out 3 x 1-1/2" circles

1 piece approx 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" - die cut detailed butterfly top layer


Butterfly Bijou 6" x 6" dsp

2 sheets with large butterflies - die cut 2 x misty moonlight/jade colour

1 sheet with small butterflies - fussy cut 3 out


Basic Black cardstock

1 piece approx 2" x 2" - stamp and heat emboss sentiment


Opal Rounds

5 x front of card


Basic pattern decorative masks

Dotty one for front of card pattern


Blending Brushes

Creating front of card pattern


Misty Moonlight classic stampin' pad

Just Jade classic stampin' pad


Card Instructions

Fold and burnish the cardbase and glue the inside white piece to the inside of card.

Using the dotty mask and 2 blending brushes apply both shades of ink, very gently over the front of card white layer. Glue the 2 different pieces of coloured cardstock to the reverse side of this layer, having a small border of colour showing around the edges, but different colours on each side. Glue this whole section to the front of the cardbase.

Punch out the circles and cut them up so that they rest against the sides of the white layer and glue into place flat.

Die cut all of the different layers of the butterflies and then with the dsp pieces and the coloured pieces give them a slight curl using a bone folder. Apply wink of stella to the dsp ones and then just applying glue to the backs of the butterfly bodies glue all of the layers together, the white layers will remain flat and then these can be glued onto the front of the cardbase.



Fussy cut some of the smaller butterflies out, give them a slight curl with the bone folder and attach these in place with glue just on the backs of the bodies.

Using versamark ink, white embossing powder and a heat tool, heat emboss the sentiment. Fussy cut around the wording using snips and then glue the wordings into place flat.

Attach the Opal rounds onto the front of the card, these fit perfectly onto the dots that have been inked onto the card.


That's the card finished, hope you liked it as much as I liked putting it together it was a quick card but quite lovely with the butterflies.

I'd love it if you liked my card if you could vote for me and hopefully I can reach the top ten again.

Take care everyone till next time and keep crafting

Huge Crafty Hugs

Natalie xx

Please remember when voting you get to place 5 votes in total so do have a look at all of the amazing entries from some really talented people and give the ones you love your vote thankyou x


MARCH HOST CODE

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Remember if shopping with myself on line and you live in the UK if your order is under £150 to use my host code so that I can send you a small thankyou gift through the post the following month x


Product List
Opal Rounds
[154289]
£7.00
Bone Folder
[102300]
£6.50
Paper Snips
[103579]
£9.25
Paper Trimmer
[152392]
£23.00



14 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! Love the layering of the butterflies. Thanks Natalie for being part of my International Blog Highlights this month and all the best with voting!

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  2. What lovely colours and I love the use of the embossing paste

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    1. Thankyou Helen I do love to use butterflies think they are so prety on any card x Natalie Arnold

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  3. What a lovely card, Natalie! ~ Kim Kroeker

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    1. Thankyou so much Kim very kind of you to say x Natalie Arnold

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  4. Beautiful card Natalie love the colours and your design, have put my vote in xx

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    1. Awwww thankyou so much Ruth really appreciate x Natalie

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  5. Wow, Natalie, fabulous card, love your background composition with the circles and masking, really sets off the beautiful flutterby's :) many thanks for sharing these great techniques. Good luck with the voting :)

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    1. Thanks so much Anne really appreciate your commenting good luck yourself your card is amazing x Natalie

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  6. Wow, what a lovely card with such different backgrounds

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    1. Thankyou so much Liane very kind of you x Natalie

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  7. very neat card, love those masks the card definitely has beautiful dimension

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    1. Thankyou so much Lesley really appreciate you hopping on and commenting x Natalie

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