Beautiful Day Butterfly - Fun Fold Easel Card

This birthday card is for a young great-niece - I thought she'd like a colourful butterfly.

An Easel Fold card featuring the butterfly image from the Beautiful Day stamp set

I stamped the butterfly image onto Window Sheet (acetate) with Stazon ink and then used some Stampin' Blends alcohol markers to colour it in .... on the back.  As it turned out, I decided it needed a piece of white cardstock behind the image to make it pop more and to obscure the easel fold.

To make the easel fold - I cut my base card to 11" x 5 1/2" and scored at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2".

A side view of the easel fold

I used the method shown at the bottom of this post to "resize" the Stitched Rectangle with the greeting.  The butterflies were cut with the Butterfly Beauty dies from Lovely Lipstick cardstock and adhered to So Saffron cardstock before trimming around the butterflies.  I find this quicker and easier than paper piecing when I'm time-poor.

I coloured Basic Rhinestone Jewels with the alcohol markers so that they would match.

I wanted to ensure that I cut identical frames for the back and front of the piece and so I used some old washi tape to keep them in the correct position, allowing for multiple identical frames to be cut.

I use my cutting mat to help align the dies for my frame

I then use washi tape to keep the frame in the correct position for cutting multiple identical frames

The closed easel card

I also made a variant of this card for a sympathy card.  This butterfly is stamped onto vellum but I still added the piece of white behind it to make it pop more.

Looking back at these photos has been really interesting.  Believe it or not, both cards were made with the same Bermuda Bay cardstock but I photographed one with my phone and the other with my Canon camera - they look quite different.  I do apologise for that!

Beautiful Day butterfly stamped onto vellum and coloured with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers

The view of the closed card

To make the die cut narrower, I positioned the die as required and then placed the top cutting plate only over the area to be cut - as shown in the image below. TIP:  I "wiggle" the die gently until I can feel the blade of the die fitting into the die cut to match what has already been cut.

This is how I resized / reshaped the die cut.

Thank you for visiting.

'Til next time!

Stephanie

Product List - All products are available for purchase from my online store

Beautiful Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$37.00

Window Sheets

$8.75

Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad

$17.50

Lovely Lipstick Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

$7.75

Bermuda Bay Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

$7.75

Mango Melody Dark Stampin' Blends

$7.75

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

$15.25

Lovely Lipstick A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

$17.00

So Saffron A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Stitched Rectangle Dies

$61.00

Butterfly Beauty Dies

$68.00

Merry Christmas Dies

$49.00

Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$17.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

$8.75

Foam Adhesive Strips

$14.00

Butterfly Wishes & Butterfly Beauty Dies

The gorgeous Butterfly Wishes stamp set

Having stamped the branch onto Sahara Sand card with Calypso Coral ink, I added colour with Stampin' Write Markers in Calypso Coral, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Call Me Clover and Shaded Spruce and blended a tiny bit with an Aqua Painter.

The butterfly and greeting are stamped with Early Espresso ink.

Using Calypso Coral card, I cut a single butterfly from the grouping in the Butterfly Beauty Dies.  I then cut another from an offcut of Petal Pink card and did a little paper piecing.  I coloured the antennae and body with my Early Espresso marker and added a Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewel.

Simple but effective.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All available for purchase from my online store

Butterfly Wishes Cling Stamp Set

$40.00

Butterfly Beauty Dies

$68.00

Stitched So Sweetly Dies

$56.00

Calypso Coral A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock

$15.25

Petal Pink A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Aqua Painters

$20.00

Springtime Impressions of Butterfly Beauty

I'll admit right now that this card didn't come out as I'd hoped and I'm really unhappy with the result.  However, creativity and radiation don't seem to mix well for me so I'm presenting it anyway, with apologies.

Springtime Impressions and Butterfly Beauty

I ran a piece of Highland Heather cardstock through the big shot, set up for embossing, with the Springtime Impressions piece and then heavily spritzed it with water before gently dabbing on Gorgeous Grape and Bermuda Bay ink before leaving it to dry.

Since I wasn't happy, I repeated the spritzing and inking a few times.  Then, once thoroughly dry, I also added a little ink with a sponge for good measure!  I also added a touch of Frost White Shimmer Paint - but it doesn't show up in the photo!

The butterflies are cut using the Butterfly Beauty dies and the sentiment (stamped with Gorgeous Grape) is from the Free As A Bird stamp set.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All products are available for purchase from my online store

Springtime Impressions Dies

$50.00

Butterfly Beauty Dies

$68.00

Gorgeous Grape A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Highland Heather A4 Cardstock

$15.25

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

$15.25

Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad

$13.00

Stampin' Spritzer

$5.00

Sponge Daubers

$9.00

Country Floral Silver and Black

To start this card, I embossed some Basic Black cardstock with the Country Floral Embossing Folder (until 31 March FREE with a $90 purchase!).

The photo does not do justice to the silvery shimmer in this card

I then gently swiped a Whisper White ink pad over the embossed piece and let it dry.  The white ink takes a while to dry, so this is an ideal opportunity to work on another project, go shopping or do whatever tasks you have on your to do list!

Once the ink was dry, I used a sponge dauber to gently add some Frost White ink to the flowers and foliage with the deepest embossing.  I did this a couple of times.  Try as I might - I can't get the shimmer to show up in my photos!

Close up endeavouring to show the white and silver sponging on the Country Floral embossing

Then I cut my piece in half to make two cards.  Each piece has a silver frame and is adhered to a black base card.

Country Floral embossing enhanced with white and silver inks

The sentiments are from the Eastern Beauty stamp set.  I punched them out with a 1" circle punch and then added a layer of black card cut with the smallest of the Layering Circles dies.

The foliage for the thank you card is cut from Silver Foil with dies from the Butterfly Beauty set and the foliage for the other card is punched with the Sprig and Leaf punches.  Some of the foliage is sponged with Stazon Jet Black ink.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

Product List - All products are available for purchase in my online store

Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$0.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Silver Foil Sheets

$7.00

Whisper White Craft Stampin' Ink Refill

$8.00

Frost White Shimmer Paint

$14.00

1" Circle Punch

$21.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

$58.00

Eastern Beauty Photopolymer Stamp Set

$37.00

Sponge Daubers

$9.00

Leaf Punch

$28.00

Sprig Punch

$31.00

Butterfly Beauty Thinlits Dies

$68.00

Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad

$15.75