butterfly congratulations...
Hello my fabulous friends!
Can you believe this year is almost over?
Today I'm looking at the new Butterfly Bliss Garden Shutter set from Spellbinders, and while this is designed to be 5x7 interactive shutter card set, I've decided to just use the elements in it to create a regular A2 card.
Let's take a closer look!
Please note, while Spellbinders did send me product and ask me to create with it, my opinions remain my own.
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Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Decofoil Flock sheet, vellum, DCWV
Embossing folder: Darcie Damask Background
Foil: Spellbinder Silver, Polished Brass
Hot Foil Plate: Spellbinders Mini Everyday Sentiments
These butterflies are fun to layer with patterned paper! I used vellum as my base layer to give the wings a translucent edging, and flocked paper for the body so it's soft and fuzzy! Because these butterflies are small, I went with paper that had very a small patter. I find that 6x6 patterned papers usually have a smaller pattern then their 12x12 siblings. That's why I like having both around.
I also had fun with the decorative panels. I wanted them to be foiled, and colored... I know you can get beautiful colored foils (I have some, and I love them), but I wanted to customize my colors, so I did some experimenting...
I started by die cutting the decorative panels 3 times from white card stock
I then used the Spellbinders Glimmer system to foil them in Silver. And honestly, I liked the silver foil, it is beautiful!!! However, I wanted to bit more color behind the butterflies.
So, I used Comic markers to tint the panels in various blues. I used my Comic airbrush first, since that's usually the best way to get an even coat on a coated or nonporous surface, however it didn't work very well. You could hardly see any color.
So I used the markers to color. That worked a lot better.
The foiled surface doesn't take ink like I expected it to.. I had to use fairly dark colors to get the color to show. However, it was a fun experiment, and something that I'll keep in mind when considering coloring my foil in the future.
I will say that it is a lot easier and overall cleaner look if you buy the foil already colored... This experiment was more because I didn't have all the colors I wanted for this card and I was curious if this might work to fill in the gaps of the colors currently offered.
Finally, I foiled a banner cut from flocked paper. I absolutely LOVE the look of hot foiling on flocked/velvet paper. It looks so striking!
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