Sympathy Butterfly Card

Hello

Happy Easter!

Sorry for being a little late in posting today, our internet has been down for a little over a day due to the storm that blew through yesterday.  It is only when you lose something that you realise just how dependent you have become.......

Anyway, today's card is a sympathy card with a pretty rainbow butterfly and an embossed vellum background.

Materials:

• Black and white card, vellum
• Embossing folder (Cuttlebug) and die-cutting machine (Cuttlebug v2)
• Gold embossing powder (Ranger) and embossing ink (Versamark)
• Watercolours
• A 'with sympathy' stamp (Rosie's studio) and large butterfly stamp (Kaisercraft)
• Gold brads

Directions:

1. Cut black card to form a top folding base.  Cut a piece of vellum to leave a small black border.  Emboss the vellum with the folder through a die-cutting machine.  Cut a small strip of black card for the sentiment which is wide enough to cover the width of the vellum piece.
2. Stamp the butterfly with the embossing ink and heat set with the gold powder.  Using a rainbow of colours, add the watercolour to the butterfly and leave to dry.  Stamp and emboss the sentiment on to the strip of black card.  On the vellum piece, stamp the top section of the butterfly and emboss with the powder so you don't have to cut around the antennae. Cut out butterfly.
3. Adhere the butterfly to the vellum lining up with the stamped antennae.  Adhere the black strip towards the bottom of the piece.  Using the brads, attach the vellum piece to the black base adding additional adhesive behind the strip and butterfly if you want to.
   

There you go!  I love the butterfly, it is so pretty and I'm fairly certain I will do many more butterflies like this one in the future!

Till next week!

Stacey

Again this project has been added to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.  Check it out at http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/simon-says-animal-antics/