11 April 2021

Citrus Butterfly Loveliness

Good morning all,

I was working on a butterfly panel over the weekend and heat embossed some butterflies with the intention of doing a lovely multi coloured blended background. However, as I completed the panel I realised it really had not worked the way I had intended!! So back to the drawing board and you will see the results I was really looking for later in the year as I was creating for one of my DT positions. 

So this left me with some lovely Distress Ink blended butterflies to use up. I decided to cut them out and give them a black background to really make them pop!


The Butterflies are from Uniko set English Country Garden - Butterflies and I have heat embossed them in Wow! Opaque White powder before ink blending with Distress Oxides in Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemon and Twisted Citron. I have fussy cut them and layered them onto a narrow black panel before layering this onto a white slimline card blank. Finally I have added the sentiment using the really great Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Background stamps and co-ordinating die.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:


























Thanks for stopping by today. Nice comments always appreciated and give that warm fussy feeling!
Much love
Steph x




9 comments:

  1. OH! I love this fabulous card, gorgeous colour mix and butterflies on the black. Love it.
    Faith x

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  2. This is such a beautiful card! Love how well those butterflies stand out against the black background! Thanks for joining us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

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  3. Your bright butterflies are so pretty on the black! Sweet card! Glad you joined us at FMS!

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  4. Love the way these beautiful butterflies pop against the black panel! Thanks for playing along with us at FMS.

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  5. Putting those Uniko butterflies to good use Steph, they look amazing against the black. Thanks for playing at Uniko, hope to see you join in with future challenges too. Stay safe and keep crafting!

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  6. The butterflies really pop against the black background. Thank you for joining us at Happy Little Stampers Watercolor Challenge.

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  7. Those butterflies certainly pop against the black background, butterflies are definitely a sign of spring. I saw quite a few peacock ones the other morning basking in the sun as well as lots of small tortoiseshell ones flitting around. Thanks for sharing at Uniko. :)

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  8. Just love the pop of colour against the black!

    Thank you for sharing with us at 'Happy Little Stampers Watercolour' this month
    Stay Safe
    Hugs Shell xx

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  9. Stephanie, great use of the amplification effect of black against any colours! Your country garden butterflies pop out so nice! Love the CAS style of your card.
    Thank you for sharing this beauty with us in the Uniko Spring Challenge #64.
    Creative greetings from Wiebke (Uniko Brand Ambassador)

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