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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Pink Butterflies Card


A few months ago, I was using an old Anna Griffin background stamp to make embossed gold backgrounds. Today I decided to use this one to make a card.

I matted the embossed piece with gold mirror card and mounted it onto some interesting moire paper I bought a few years ago at an art supply store. The background paper was run through my Xyron and mounted onto white CS first, then matted with more of the gold card and it was all mounted onto a 5x7 card.

The butterflies are Cheery Lynn. The filigree part was cut from gold mirror card, and the other part was cut from Core'dinations pearl. As usual, when using heavy paper like this, you have to use the die on one side of the paper, then carefully line it up on the back side to cut the other side, since Cheery Lynn only makes the background cutting dies as half a die for some strange reason. (It's a big pet peeve of mine, so I always mention it in the hopes that they will make whole dies instead). I love using this very heavy Core'dinations paper, and I love Cheery Lynn Dies, but it is too heavy to work with what they call their Angel Wings. After cutting all the butterfly pieces, I glued them together and colored them with Gelyroll pens.

The Happy Birthday is from JustRite, and was cut with a Spellbinders tag die and embossed with gold EP. The pearls are Liquid Pearls.

This card couldn't be any pinker, so as usual, when I make a pink card, I'm reminded of my loyal internet friend Jill!


7 comments:

Sasha said...

Lots of lovely rich gold on your card, Kathi. Love your embossed background and pretty butterflies. Gorgeous card! x

Myrna said...

Kathi
Gorgeous card. All the elements are so pretty.
Myrna

Marie-Louise said...

Beautiful. Great idea to gold emboss your own background paper. The butterflies are fabulous.

Alison Scott said...

Wonderfully pink card. Beautiful.

craftieodmae said...

beautiful, I love the butterflies!

JD/ Jill said...

This is absolutely beautiful! And Of course, the pink makes even nicer....smile...

Greta said...

Beautiful, feminine, elegant card--love it!