This Butterfly Birthday card uses several different techniques: paper layering, embossing, stamping, glittering and punch art. It’s made with card stock with a glittered design, plain card stock, vellum, plain scrapbook paper, glitter glue, vellum and a purchased scalloped circle.
First, I sized this card to fit an envelope. Sometimes I just can’t be bothered messing around to get envelopes to fit my cards! LOl
The background is glittered, patterned card stock. The blue band is card stock that I have embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the Big Shot. The link goes to a video tutorial showing how to do this if you are unfamiliar with the tools mentioned.
The white scalloped circle is purchased, as I mentioned before. I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment with a stamp from Studio G. I went over it with a little yellow artist chalk because the white looked “too white”, somehow. I’m a big fan of artist chalk and often prefer it to some of the other media that crafters use for adding color.
I used plain black ink to stamp, then added a couple of punched flowers with a floral punch from Make an Impression. I put a few dots of glitter glue here and there in the center of the flower and on the hat.
Making the Stamped Butterfly
To make the butterfly, I started with the Butterfly stamp from Make an Impression. Incidentally, this company has wonderful tutorials on their web site showing how to use their stamps and punches together.
Anyway, I stamped the butterfly on white card stock, then tinted it yellow with decorator chalk. I cut the butterfly out using precision scissors. Next, I stamped the butterfly on a pale purple vellum. If you are new to working with vellum, you need to know that not all inks will dry on vellum. Brilliance and Stazon will work and possibly others that I don’t know about.
Referring to the velum butterfly, I cut out the two wings and glued the wings over top of the card stock butterfly. I aligned the two sets of wings so they are almost, but not quite on top of one another. The vellum wings are just a bit off center to reveal some of the card stock butterfly. I then bent the butterfly wings slightly so they rise upwards from the body on each side.
Finally, I punched out some flowers from pink scrapbook paper using the same small floral punch from Make an Impression. I shaped the small pink flowers by placing them on a mouse pad and then pressing in the center with a finely pointed embossing tool. I glued the pink flowers in place, then added some reddish-brown glitter glue in the centers.
Last steps involved gluing the scalloped circle and and the butterfly in place.
I’m a big fan of Make an Impressions stamps and punches. You can make some great cards with their products.
