Birthday Butterfly

Welcome to the studio!  I have been fluttering around my desk putting together another birthday card.  This is one of my favorite kind of cards to make since there is always a birthday to celebrate and it's good to have cards on hand.   I have a box of old photos - ones that I saved from the trash -remember before digital cameras when we had to have film developed and a lot of them never made it to a photo album or were not good enough to frame.  I kept some of those rejects thinking that I could find ways to repurpose someday.  I have used 2 of those rejected photos (shown below) in the making of this card. You can estimate how many years I have had them.  

Using a recently learned Cloisonne Technique, I stamped an old butterfly stamp from Layers of Color with Versamark ink on the sunset glossy photo and heat embossed with gold EP and fussy cut the image. (Be careful not to get paper too hot or it will blister.) I trimmed the second photo of flowers and used it as a background mat on my card.  I attached the butterfly and added with some die cut words cut with Cheery Lynn dies.  I wanted the gold edge of the card base and the gold of the words all to match the gold on the butterfly so I used the same gold embossing powder to edge the white card base and to create a gold embossed strip to cut the words.  That's what I call coordinating my golds.

Challenges:

ModSquad Challenge: Birthday Butterflies

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite Occasion (and Why) Birthdays.  I enjoy sending a specially designed card to someone having a birthday as well as keeping a variety of birthday cards on hand. And I can be as creative as I want making every card in a different way.

As You See It Challenge: #268 Techniques. A favorite technique of mine is Cloisonne Technique using heat embossing. This is a new technique that I recently learned. 

Thanks for dropping by. I love reading your comments. Theresa

Love with Hearts and Flowers

Hello!  The card that I am posting was inspired by the challenge at CAS Mix Up challenge which is to use Faux Cloisonne. This technique is new to me so I watched the tutorials listed with the challenge and had to give it a try.  I chose a page (shown below) from an old Martha Stewart Living magazine to use for my design.  I stamped a portion of the glossy page with a Gina K Design stamp from Tropical Blooms set (2018) using Versamark ink and then heat embossed with Gold EP. Next time, I think I'd attach the glossy page to a cardstock before stamping since the paper stuck to the stamp and I only got one chance to stamp with ink even though I was using the Misti.  

I used a Gina K die to cut the image which I attached to Stick It before cutting.  This made it much easier to adhere the image to the card stock panel of Gina K White CS. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from Gina K You Have My Heart Set. I also added a die cut heart cut with Gina K Die from GKD Gold Metallic CS. To finish, I edged the panel with Pilot Gold Metallic Marker, attached it to a layer of Pink CS from stash, and then to a White Card Base. 

I will be sending this card to my Mother for Valentine's. I think the Cloisonne technique gives an "antiquey" vibe to the card. 

Challenges:

ModSquad Challenge: Hearts and Flowers. Used Gina K Stamps and Dies as listed above. 

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon Says With Love.  I put a lot of love into my card.

Retro Rubber Challenge: 175 Love, Love, Love! Stamps used are all from 2018 sets. 

Cas Mix Up Challenge: Used Stamping, Die cutting, Heat Embossing

Stay Safe and Healthy! Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments. Theresa