This card took me a lot longer than I wanted  it to as it was the first time I have ever used a digital stamp. After today better quality printing paper is now on my list of things to buy I ended up using photo paper which made things a bit more complicated as using pens made for using on peel off stickers did not work so I resorted to using felt tips and clear embossing over. I think I went through about 7 butterflies in the end. 

The Rose Butterfly by Crissy Digi’s was bought from Wimsy stamps 

Purple Butterfly Card

 What I Used

I changed the butterfly image slightly by deleting the added dot detailing in ms paint before printing. I coloured the image in adding clear embossing powder as I went and then used a heat gun to melt the powder and seal the colour. I then added silver embossing powder around the edges of 2 wings and the patches using a paintbrush to remove any stray powder before heating. I used a craft knife and scissors to cut round the image removing the antenna which I drew in later with a pen. You can’t see in this image but I also cut between the 2 wings on both sides and when I attached the image to the purple card I used double sided sticky tabs to attach the top wings and body and tape to attach the bottom wings to give some dimension.

The silver tissue paper was crumpled and straightened before I added it to the card using a glue stick. The vellum was backed onto the same purple card used in the forefront using double-sided sticky tape. Then the elements were just layered and attached using tape and glue.

Challenges

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