After all of the Christmas cards I have made this month it was very hard to think of a non-Christmas design. In the end I looked for inspiration in my favourite Stampin' Up Swallowtail Butterfly stamp. I really love working with this stamp, no matter how you use it, it always looks fabulous. I had never tried it in a metallic colour before and I was delighted with the effect.
There is a lot of fine detail in this stamp so I decided to use gold ink rather than emboss it as I find that embossing can sometimes loose that detail. The drawback of the gold ink is that it seems to take forever to dry and I ended up with it all over my fingers and fingerprints on my card. Luckily, I manage to get rid of the fingerprints with a pencil eraser.
I stamped the image onto some linen effect card ad then layered it with gold mirri card. The sentiment is a Stampin' Up stamp. The champagne coloured flat backed gems are from Kanban Crafts.
The Crafty Boots Design Team has been busy making some very glitzy inspirational projects, please make sure you take a peek when you enter your projects in the challenge.
Good Luck.
Dionne
This is beautiful. Your layering is so neat and accurate too xx
ReplyDeleteAh, you are too kind, it is all done by eye!
DeleteDionne xx