How to Make an Easy Embossed Butterfly Watercolor Splash Card

Hello ~ Kathy here from Create.365 to share an easy card with you that I made using 2 of my favorite ScraPerfect products! This will be one of the cards the gals at my local library will get to make in the month of September at our cardmaking class, but I will also be entering it @ Shopping Our Stash for "Butterflies, Bees & Bugs", @ Pause Dream Enjoy for "Summer Bugs" and @ Happy Little Stampers for both the Watercolor and CAS July challenges.

Making the watercolor background on this one layer white A2 size card is as easy as scribbling with 3 colors of Metallic Gel Sticks and then wetting it with a flat, wide water color brush! I used the purple, blue and green sticks today.

While the background was drying, I prepped a scrap of white cardstock with the Perfect Crafting Pouch to remove static and stamped the butterfly from Fun Stampers Journey in Versamark ink on it. I then heat embossed it using black powder. I really won't do this anymore without the Crafting Pouch because tiny bits of stray black embossing powder can ruin a card front in the blink of an eye, lol! Once the powder was cool, I brushed the Perfect Cleaning Cloth over the image to remove any residue and then fussy cut it out with small detail scissors.

 Once I added the butterfly to the card front with foam pop dots, I brushed clear Wink of Stella over some of the butterfly details to add shimmer that matches the shimmer in the metallic gel stick watercolors.

After stamping the sentiment in black ink at the bottom center of the card, I rounded all four corners with a corner punch.

Keeping it Clean and Simple (CAS), I only stamped the "happy birthday" sentiment (retired from TAC) on the inside in more black ink.

That's it for me today...until next time, happy crafting with ScraPerfect~

Try Stampin' On Tuesday(Or Not) Challenge #310

Today's card is one that the ladies at my local library will get to make at our April card class and it was inspired by the sketch over @ the Try Stampin' On Tuesday blog, but I didn't go with their optional "sweet thoughts" theme this time.

I started out with a half sheet of 8.5 x 11 periwinkle cardstock that I top folded and then rounded the bottom corners using a corner rounder punch. I used Versamark to get the tone-on-tone look for the Easter eggs (retired -CTMH) I stamped randomly across the card front to make my own background paper. The Easter basket was stamped in a charcoal dye-based ink and colored with (Stampin' Up) markers. I then cut a circle around it, trimmed off the bottom, hand pierced a border around the edges and sponged the lightest blue ink I could find around the edges.

The Sentiment and Easter basket stamps came FREE as a Bloom Benefit that I earned by placing a $50 order from my Fun Stamper's Journey web-store and is only available in the Bloom This Way mini catalog until March 31st! I stamped the sentiment in Versamark ink and embossed it in lilac embossing powder onto a trimmed piece of pale peach cardstock that had a bit of a texture to it. I then layered that on to a coral piece of cardstock to help it pop off the background.

The butterfly (from a Momenta Butterfly stamp and die set) was stamped in Versamark ink, embossed in clear glitter powder and colored with one of the same SU! markers I used to color the Easter eggs. I then cut it out with a matching diecut and gently bent the wings up for some dimension. The sprigs (dies from Maker's Mark/Spellbinder's Die of the Month Club) I adhered under the butterfly were diecut from vellum and attached with mini glue dots, as was the butterfly. The last step was popping up the focal circle with foam dots and then I was finished!