Lately I've been loosely challenging myself to use as much up of my paper when I pull something out of a pad. So this card started with leftovers from yesterday's card and the other Lavender scraps in my stash. I stamped and embossed the sentiment from Hope Lifts directly on a piece of patterned paper and cut with a stitched circle die. I matted this with a lacey circle die cut from Spellbinders. Next I arranged my layers to fulfill the sketch, cutting a Lacey Frames die cut for the second circle. I then set to work on the butterfly from Hope Lifts.
I already had one butterfly embossed in white, watercolored, and then cut with the Butterfly Dreams set laying on my desk from a previous project. So I stamped the butterfly from Hope Lifts again on watercolor paper, embossed in white and cut with the coordinating Lifted Hope die set. Next I watercolored with pugnacious purple and plum tuckered out shimmerz products. The white was a bit for my antiqued card. I recently picked up some vintage collage medium on clearance, so decided to give it a go over the embossed butterflies to age things a bit. I finished off with lots of distressed edges and a little paper flower in the center of the butterfly.
Enabler's List
Stamps: Hope Lifts (Verve Stamps)Paper: Lavender (Prima), crumb cake (SU!), cream (Neenah)
Ink: early espresso (SU!), antique lace distress (Ranger), Plum Tuckered Out Vibez, Pugnacious Purple Inklingz (Shimmerz)
Accessories: Lifted Hope, Lacey Frames and Butterfly Dreams die sets (A Cut Above by VERVE), white embossing powder, paper flower, circle dies (Spellbinders), corner rounder, paper distresser, Vintage collage medium (Ranger)
3 comments
Another gorgeous card Julee. I love the sentiment stamped on the patterned paper and the pretty layered butterfly. TFS
Have a wonderful day.
So very beautiful!!
I too have been thinking more about using up scraps and man have you done a gorgeous job!! The layers are perfect and I am in LOVE with all the butterflies!
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