Butterfly Card Tutorial

Hello, today I am going to share a card I made with step by step instructions on how I made it.  There are a lot of pictures, so grab a cuppa and get comfy.

I thought I would share the finished card with you first, then show you how I made it.

 

1 Here are the ingredients for the card;

6x6 Card Blank, Navy Card, White Stamping Card

Swallowtail Butterfly Stamp from Stampin Up

Memento Ink in Paris Dusk

Promarkers in; Indigo Blue, Island Lagoon, Mint Green, Pink Lobster, Pink Carnation, Tropical Orchid, Orchid, Lavender, Tropical Sunrise, Soft Peach, Canary, Lemon.

Kuretake Wink of Stella Brush Pen in Clear

Stix2 PVA Adhesive & 3D Foam Pads

Oval & Scalloped Oval Punch

Sentiment Stamp

2  Trim down your navy layer of card to 14.4cm x 14.2cm 

Your white stamping card to 14cmx13.8cm

Place your stamp onto an acrylic block or cd case and ink it up.

3  I stamped the image off centre, to make the card slightly more interesting.

4 Start colouring your butterfly from the centre using Island Lagoon Promarker.

5 Take your Mint Green Promarker and colour over the darker green continuing to fill in the empty area with colour.

6 Using Tequila Sunrise colour the next section of the butterfly, use the shading lines of the stamp to guide you where to place the colour.

7  This time use Soft Peach to blend with the Tequila Sunrise.

8  Take your Canary pen and finish the section and start the next part of the wings.

9  Using the Lemon Promarker, go over the Canary section and colour in some of the next section.

10  The Pink Lobster pen is the next one to use.

11  Go over the Pink Lobster sections with Pink Carnation.

12  Use the Tropical Orchid, colour the next section.

13  Go over the Tropical Orchid with Orchid to blend the colours in.

14  Finish off the section with Lavender.

15  Use the base colours of Tequila Sunrise, Pink Lobster, Canary and Island Lagoon to fill in any empty section and highlight parts of your butterfly.

16  Put your card together by sticking down your navy layer to the card blank, then stick down your butterfly layer.  Time to add lots of subtle sparkle with your Wink of Stella Brush Pen.

Here is a super close close up of the finished butterfly, isn't that sparkle just gorgeous?

17  Stamp the sentiment onto white card and punch it out using the oval punch.

Make a layer to place it on using the navy card and the oval scalloped punch.

Glue your sentiment onto the layer, and pop some 3d Foam under the navy layer and place on your card.

I hope you have enjoyed this step by step post as much as I enjoyed doing it.  Thanks for popping by today.

Carol x