Greetings Special Friends! How are you? Are you crafting anything fun this week? I hope you get in some creative time - I feel like that's so important. Even if I don't create, I make sure to come in my studio every single day. Sometimes I just organize or look through things, sometimes I don't think I'm going to create, but the mood strikes me once I'm in here! I've thoroughly enjoyed doing the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge this time around. I didn't make something every single day, but I tried!! It's coming to a close in a few days... I'm getting around to posting the cards I made with all the elements I colored along the way. Today's card is just that! I colored these gorgeous butterfly stamps a while back...happy to share the card with you today!
The stamps I used today are Butterfly Garden and Special Friends from Penny Black. I heat embossed everything with gorgeous gold and then watercolored with my fav water color set. I used to do gold embossing all the time, but it's been a while. I'm so happy with how this turned out. The finished card is an A2 white card base.
I started by stamping/embossing the butterflies and the banner. It was all stamped onto watercolor paper. I die cut them out with the matching dies. I die cut a stitched rectangle, also from watercolor paper. I stamped the pretty leaves directly onto this panel.
Next, I watercolored all the elements! I chose pretty, bright shades! I let everything dry, and then added some splatters.
Here's a close up of the embossing and watercoloring...
The gorgeous butterflies! I have some extra saved for another project some day!
To assemble the card, I added a pretty layer of blue cardstock and then my stamped panel. The butterflies and the banner are affixed with foam tape onto the card.
Thanks for coming by today!! I hope you have a blessed, happy and creative day! XOXO CLICK HERE for today's supplies, or CLICK on the graphic below. (Affiliate links used) See you on Friday with the first Christmas card of the year, and a GIVEAWAY!!! Yeah!!!
Such a lovely card in every way! I always love the butterflies and your color choices enhance every project!
Posted by: Julie L | 07/11/2019 at 11:37 AM
Wanda!! Beautiful butterflies!
Posted by: Francie Meng | 07/10/2019 at 09:16 AM
Simply gorgeous colors Wanda. I just ordered a butterfly set from Reverse Confetti. Can't have too many you know. Keeping cool and working on some layered peonies from Altenew.
Posted by: Anne Sturgeon | 07/10/2019 at 08:50 AM
WOW... simply gorgeous.
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Martha H. | 07/10/2019 at 07:50 AM
Beautiful
Posted by: Nancy Hassan | 07/10/2019 at 07:44 AM
Ooh!!! So pretty! I should use gold embossing on my next card. Thanks for that awesome idea!
Posted by: Theresa | 07/10/2019 at 07:05 AM
Love how beautiful your butterflies are! I was trying not to need them but yours have sort of made that decision for me!
I guess having Another set of butterflies can't hurt!
Beautiful card!! Thank you.
Posted by: Peggy | 07/10/2019 at 06:37 AM
Your beauties are just as gorgeous as any of the 80 we bloomed last week, Wanda! You'd think I would own every single butterfly stamp, wouldn't you? This one fluttered right by me, somehow! xx
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Posted by: Michele | 07/10/2019 at 05:40 AM