Butterfly Brilliance in Rainbow and Mint

Butterfly Brilliance was my pick for a quick card this morning because I had to work on my monthly newsletter for April.  

I used the new Blending Brushes to create the rainbow in the background.  The colours I used were Highland Heather, Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Real Red.  The butterflies were stamped with Versa Mark and embossed with gold.  I could have done the embossing resist technique with this - but didn't think about it until later.  I DID, however,  make sure that I used one of my old Embossing Buddies so that the embossing powder only stuck to where I wanted it.

I strung three lines of some retired black Baker's Twine and used a greeting from Gather Together on one of the Stitched Nested Labels  and added some gold Metallic Pearls - all of which are retiring at the end of April.

This card was made a couple of days ago stamping the Butterfly Brilliance with Memento Tuxedo Black onto white cardstock.  My Light Mint Macaron Stampin' Blends marker was used to colour in the entire background.  When I had the background covered, I went around each of the butterflies with the maker to create a bit of a shadow. Then I covered the background again.  This helped to get rid of some of the marker lines that were created the first time and made the background darker.

One of the scalloped Stitched So Sweetly dies was cut out in Vellum to go behind the greeting from Itty Bitty Birthdays.  I'm going to miss that stamp set.  I've ended up using it quite a bit.  The dies are also retiring.

That is it for today.  I can't wait for butterfly season to begin! 

Thanks for stopping by,

Joan

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