Butterfly Fold Back (by Anne)

Good morning. Here is one of my samples for the butterfly stamp set shows featured on Hochanda recently.

Materials:

• Patchwork Butterfly stamp set
• 6 X 6 inch square card blank (black), white watercolour card
• Inkpads: Versamark and Versafine (Onyx Black)
• Heat embossing powder (pearl blue)
• Sparkle brush pens (gold, teal)
• Watercolour pens (purple, teal)
• Stickles glitter glue (Icicle)
• Glossy Accents

How to make it:

1. Make a vertical score line half way across the card front and fold back.
2. Open the card out flat and stamp the swirls around the edges with Versamark ink to frame. Use a gridded acrylic block to help align the stamp with the card edges. Also stamp the verse and small butterfly. Heat emboss with the pearl blue powder. Colour the butterfly with sparkle pen and add glitter glue dots for added sparkle.
3. Stamp the large butterfly onto white card with Versafine. Using watercolour pens directly onto the stamp, colour the lightly spritz with water and overstamp onto the black image. This will give a watercolour effect. Add more colour with the sparkle pens. Cut out and glue to the edge of the card fold back. To make it neater you could paint the back of the white card with black acrylic.
4. Finish with more stickles and add some Glossy Accents to some areas of the butterfly detail.

Amazing day (by Brenda)

Good morning Peeps, today I would like to share some more Butterflies with you and judging by how quickly they sold out on Hochanda you love them as much as I do.

For the above card I stamped one of the Butterflies from the Just Butterflies stamp set six times using Black Versafine onto some yellow DP and cut them all out. Using an A5 white card blank I added a piece of the same paper which I matted onto black before fixing onto the base card.

Next I used a mannequin die and cut from black cardstock and mounted onto the card base at an angle and then fixed five of the Butterflies to create a skirt and added a yellow tripe bow at the waist. The sentiment from the Words to Dazzle and Sparkle is stamped with the same black ink onto white card, matted onto black and fixed to the card with foam pads. I added the sixth Butterfly to the card and used small black pearls down the thorax of all the Butterflies and wire antenna to the single one.

For my second card I stamped the large Butterfly from the Patchwork Butterfly set slightly off the page using Versamark and heat embossing with Detail Gold and Ruby Embossing Powders. I sprinkled some aged Spice Frantage around the image and heated and finally stamped the sentiment from the Pretty Poppies set again using Versamark and Detail Gold Embossing Powder.

For my final card I used Distress Inks Broken China, Vintage Photo and Peeled Paint to colour a piece of card, cut a panel and then randomly stamped the flourishes from the Patchwork Butterfly set using Versamark and Detail Gold Embossing Powder. Using the remainder of the inked piece of card I stamped three Butterflies from the Just Butterflies set and cut them out. The sentiment is from the Words of Love set stamped in Coffee Archival Ink, the Butterflies placed into position with wire antenna added and Liquid Pearls down the thorax and trail.

I hope you all have a lovely sunny day and my thanks for your visit today.

Patchwork Butterfly Jewellery (posted by Claire)

Good morning, Claire here with a project made using the lovely Patchwork Butterfly stamp set. I love these stamps, they are so versatile.

To make the necklace and earrings I stamped the largest butterfly and the smaller coordinating butterfly on shrink plastic using Gold Stazon ink. I coloured the back of the butterflies with alcohol markers and cut them out. I punched holes for the jump rings using a crop-o-dile using the largest punch as the hole will shrink when heated. I heated the butterflies to shrink them, the largest one was flattened with an acrylic block but I curled the wings of the smaller butterflies while they were still warm. I added some beads from my stash to complement the colours of the butterflies.

I recycled a gift box to put the little butterflies in. I covered the box with some paper that I'd coloured with dye inks and mica sprays, crumpled and left to dry. I highlighted the texture with gilding wax and added some stencilling with gold texture paste. The butterfly was stamped on acetate and embossed with gold.

Thanks for visiting today, have a lovely weekend

Claire xx

Butterfly Blessings (by Anne)

Good morning. Here is one of my samples for the butterfly stamp set shows featured on Hochanda recently. The bundle that included the matching stencils and masks was a ‘sell out’ - but these should be available again soon (direct from the Chocolate Baroque website).


Materials:

• Patchwork Butterfly, Just Butterflies and Butterfly Stencils 
• 8 X 8 inch (20cm) square card blank, heavy weight acetate
• Inkpads: StazOn (Jet Black), dye based multi-coloured (purples, pinks, blues), Versafine (Onyx Black)
• Metallic acrylic paint (Lilac)
• Sparkle pens (purple, pink)
• 3D glaze pens - work on acetate (purple and deep pink)
• Fine tipped pen (purple)
• Glitter glue (violet)
• Red liner tape (extra strong double sided tape)

How to make it:

1. Cut a 6 X 6 inch aperture into the front of the card. Stamp the swirls using multi-coloured ink to the inside panel. Stamp the butterfly and verse using Versafine. Colour the butterfly with sparkle pens.
2. Trim the acetate to fit inside the front panel. Stamp the swirls with StazOn. Tip: stamp one side of the frame, turn the card 90 degrees, stamp again and repeat to make the swirl frame design. An acrylic block with grid markings will help you align the stamp with the card edge.
3. On the other side of the acetate stencil the butterflies and dragonfly with metallic paint, leave to dry. Overtsamp the butterfly detail with StazOn. With the paint side orientated to the outside the panel will insert with the swirls orientated in the opposite direction to the inside panel. Glue to the inside with strong double sided tape. If you would like a neater inside finish cut a frame to cover the ‘workings’.
4. Add faux stitching and glitter glue dots to frame the outside panel. Finish by adding extra colour to butterflies and dots around the swirls using the 3D glaze pens.