Hello friends! Today's card is using a die set I've had for many months and decided to bring it out of the NBUS pile and give it some use. As I was finishing it up, I saw that it would work perfectly for the current Toppings at Seize the Birthday, which is Anything with Wings.
I didn't quite realize how detailed the dies were until I started cutting them out. There are some teeny tiny bits to keep track of if one wishes to inlay, which is what I intended.
The butterfly wings were die cut out of white plus four colors of card stock. Thank goodness for little trays to keep all the bits contained lol! There is no backer die for the inlay, so after watching Sandi McIver on YouTube here, I used her hack of applying good old Scotch Tape to the back of the wings and then inlay all the parts. Sure, it's rather fiddly and initially I felt a bit overwhelmed, but after I decided on where each color would go, it was almost meditative. Assembly of the butterfly was a piece of cake after that.
Due to the size of the butterfly, the card base is A7. I settled on a large embossing folder with a leaf background. I used Altenew's Dew Drops Crisp Dye ink, the closest match to the aqua cardstocks used for the die cuts, and used the ink pad directly on the flat side of the folder and ran through the die cut machine. I did this about 3-4 times. After adding it to the base, the butterfly and sentiment were popped up with foam tape. I finished things off with a bit of sparkle by adding a few opal gems.
Thanks for taking time to visit! I'll be back tomorrow and Sunday with new posts; stop by if you have a moment. Take care and have a great weekend.
Stef
- Alex Syberia Butterfly Bliss Die Set
- Altenew Essential Sentiment Strips die
- Spellbinders Leafy ef
- Simon Says Stamp Opal Dazzling Gems
- Spellbinders cardstock in Coral, Sicily, Seaside and Waterfall
6 comments:
This was so worth dealing with all of those fiddly little bits! What a beautiful card!
What a gorgeous card, that butterfly is lovely, so detailed and perfect with the embossed background. Thankyou for playing along at Seize the Birthday, Cathy x
Gorgeous card Stef! Beautiful embossed and inked background. I LOVE your new butterfly. Definitely need to have patience inlaying all those pieces, but it turned out AMAZING! Seems like a lot of dies these days have teeny, tiny pieces to keep track of. I always seem to misplace one little piece and have to do more cutting. :) xx
That is one gorgeous card, Stef! The work involved with the intricate pieces was certainly worth the effort. Your balance of colors is wonderful too. Save this one for August, would you? 😝 Thanks for joining us at Seize the Birthday and for including the Topping!
A very lovely card with the gorgeous butterfly! Love the colors, too!
What a glorious butterfly, Stef! I am wild about the colors and I'm amazed at the coverage of the aqua you got by adding ink to your pretty e/f! I do that scotch tape trick, too, and find it soothing to add the bits. I wonder if jewelers feel that way, because that's what your butterfly reminds me of ~ a gorgeous brooch! Thank you for inspiring everyone to use their NBUS! Hugs, Darnell
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