Majestic Butterfly

Majestic Butterfly

Hello everyone, hope you are keeping safe and well.

Today it’s my turn to do a post on the blog. I have used the new

Majestic Butterfly and Trailing Foliage stamps designed by

Anne Ruffles for Lisa to create this card.

Items required

Majestic Butterflies stamp

Trailing Foliage stamp

Alcohol based pens in shades of green, turquoise, salmon and pale gold

Lisa Horton die for Creative Expressions – Scalloped Layered Squares –

CEDLH1055

6” x 6” blank white card

Extra smooth white stamping card

Place the largest scalloped edge die with one side of the cutting edge just

over the fold on the 6 x 6 card and die cut, you will now have a shaped card.

Die cut the largest scalloped square from the smooth white card.

Stamp the trailing foliage with Tuxedo Black Memento ink in the top left

corner (see sample picture for positioning))

Stamp the squarer butterfly (top image on pack) in the bottom right corner

(again see sample picture for positioning)

Colour the images.

Stamp a few of the small swirls randomly around the images.

Die cut an aperture from the middle of the scalloped square with the

9cm stitched edge square.

Attach the frame with aperture to the front of the shaped card and then

attach the stitched square into the aperture.

Stamp the butterfly twice onto smooth white card and colour the top two

layers of wings on one and just the top layer on the other before carefully

cutting out. Curve the wings slightly. Add a couple of pearls either side of the

head.

Paper piece onto the butterfly on the front of the card and attach with

glue gel or 3d foam pads

Happy crafting until next time, Sue xx

Sunburst Butterflies

I am absolutely thrilled to have been accepted onto Lisa’s design team and have created this my first card using the new Butterfly Flourish stamp and die sets in conjunction with one of my favourite stencils - Sunburst

To create the background I laid the stencil on a piece of watercolour card then sprinkled pixie powders over the stencil before spritzing with water and leaving to dry.

Then place a piece of card over the stencil and smooth over with a brayer. Lift the top card away and you will have a positive and negative image. I used the negative image as the background.

I created another background just using the powders which I again spritzed and once dry cut out the butterflies. They can them be mounted onto the butterfly frames cut from plain white card.

You are then ready to create your card.

Happy crafting

Sue x

All About Sue Hobbs

- MEET THE TEAM -

SUE HOBBS

I always loved knitting and sewing and after having my two daughters I got a part time job working for a haberdashers in the 90's. I then took up cross stitch as that was very in vogue and paper-craft was just making an appearance so my employer took it on board and I became totally hooked. Peel-offs and wooden stamps were the big thing then!! 

I made samples for the shop and did demonstrations there and also at craft fairs and eventually workshops as well as buying for the company ( I was lucky enough to go to CHA in Los Angeles which was amazing). 

I was also lucky enough to go on a Dreamweaver stencil course which got me into stencilling where I am currently on Sweet Poppy design team. 

 I semi-retired a couple of years ago but still do three sometimes four workshops a month which I love. My seven and six year old granddaughters love to craft and to them I am the best crafter in the world, LOL. It's all they want to do when they come to stay with me.