Butterfly Brilliance Class Card

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This card I created for my class last Saturday was inspired by a card I did a while ago. It’s a similar layout but I think it looks completely different.

Measurements:

Basic White Thick cardstock	5 ½” x 8 ½”, scored at 4 ¼” (cardbase) 3 ¼” x 5 ½”, 2” x 2 ¾”
Polished Pink cardstock	2” x 2 ¾”
New Horizons 6”x6” Designer Series Paper (DSP)	2” x 5 ½”

Instructions:

1. Using Polished Pink, stamp the sentiment on the 2” x 2 ¾” piece of Basic White Thick cardstock, die cut using a Stitched Rectangle die.
2. Using the cloud border die, cut the 3 ¼” x 5 ½” piece of Basic White Thick cardstock lining up the edges at about 1 ¼” from the bottom.  (Make sure the clouds are the way you want them.)  Emboss the cut pieces.
3. Die cut the butterfly from the Polished Pink cardstock, cover with Clear Wink of Stella.
4. Stamp the butterfly on the inside of the cardbase, fold in half.  Adhere the piece of DSP about ¾” from the bottom. 
5. Add dimensionals to the die cut cloud pieces, use a tiny amount of liquid glue to the dimensionals and add to the front of the cardbase.  (The liquid glue will give you some wiggle room to line up the pieces.)
6. Fold the 2 ½” piece of ribbon and adhere behind the sentiment rectangle.  You may want to use glue dots for this.  Add to the cardbase using liquid glue.
7. Add a few dots of liquid glue to the middle back of the butterfly and adhere on the patterned paper as shown.

This is the card that inspired me.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Butterfly Brilliance, Celebrating You
Die Cutting & Embossing – Basic Borders dies, Brilliant Wings dies, Stitched Rectangle dies, Timeworn Type 3D embossing folder
Ink – Polished Pink stamp pad
Paper – New Horizons 6″x6″ Designer Series Paper, Basic White Thick cardstock, Polished Pink cardstock
Accents & Embellishments – White Glittered Organdy ribbon
Coloring Tools – Clear Wink of Stella
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Bone Folder, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue, mini glue dots

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Technique Squad April Blog Hop

Welcome to the Technique Squad April Blog Hop. This month we are featuring the stained glass technique. Again, I’ve never tried this one before but it looked like fun.

I stamped my butterfly onto a window sheet using Staz-on ink and then colored the BACK of the image with my Bermuda Bay and Melon Mambo Stampin’ Blends. You want to color on the back of the window sheet or you will smear the Staz-on since it’s an alcohol based ink.

I really wanted to do this with the Wild Roses background stamp but it had just a bit too much that stamps and I couldn’t get it quite fully black on the window sheet. The retired Beautiful Bouquet stamp would be beautiful for this, I may need to pull that out.

Nicole Mahler
Carole Garrison
Amy Jo Farkas Rudd
Vy Tran
JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Mackenzie Grimme
Kristie Strum

I cut apart my Butterfly Brilliance stamp set and Brilliant Wings die so the butterfly stamp was a little easier for me to place. You can do it with the butterflies all together but it may be a little more challenging to get the butterfly in the right spot.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Butterfly Brilliance, Simply Succulents, Wild Roses
Die Cutting & Embossing – Brilliant Wings dies, Potted Succulents dies, Tasteful Textile 3D embossing folder
Ink – Staz-on stamp pad, Versamark stamp pad, Pool Party stamp pad
Paper – Basic Black cardstock, Basic White cardstock, Pool Party cardstock, Window Sheets
Accents & Embellishments – Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon
Coloring Tools – Bermuda Bay Stampin’ Blends, Melon Mambo Stampin’ Blends
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini glue dots

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Butterfly Brilliance Get Well

The background is embossed using the Parisian Flourish 3D embossing folder (I thought the swirls made it look a little like butterfly trails) and then I used a blending brush to ink it with Bermuda Bay, I wanted some color but not a lot.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Butterfly Brilliance, Well Said
Die Cutting & Embossing – Parisian Flourish 3D embossing folder, Brilliant Wings dies
Punches – Classic Label punch
Ink – Bermuda Bay stamp pad
Paper – Basic White Thick cardstock. Bermuda Bay cardstock, Pool Party cardstock
Accents & Embellishments – Basic Pearls, Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle ribbon
Coloring Tools – Blending Brushes
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals. liquid glue

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Technique Blog Hop

This month’s technique is Masked Grid or Retiform. Nicole has picked another technique I’ve never tried before but it was fun to experiment. I bought some large 6″ x 8″ post it notes to use for this. I probably could have done more areas but I like how it turned out. I included a picture of the process with all the post it notes and one of the background before I added anything. I chose to overlap some of the color segments and not some of the others, there was really no plan going in.

Blog Roll
Nicole Mahler
JoAnn Pollock (you are here)
Carole Garrison
Rachel Tessman
Vy Tran
Mackenzie Grimme
Kristie Strum

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Special Someone
Die Cutting & Embossing – Brilliant Wings dies, Stitched Rectangles dies
Ink – Bermuda Bay stamp pad, Petal Pink stamp pad, Rich Razzleberry stamp pad
Paper – Basic White cardstock, Basic White Thick cardstock, Bermuda Bay cardstock, Petal Pink cardstock, Rich Razzleberry cardstock,
Accents & Embellishments – Elegant Faceted gems, Square Vellum Doilies
Coloring Tools – Blending Brushes
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue

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Stamping INKspirations Blog Hop

Welcome to the March Stamping INKspirations Blog Hop. This month’s theme is anything Easter and/or Spring!

The snow is melting, the birds are chirping and I’m looking forward to seeing butterflies as the weather warms.

I used Versamark to stamp the butterflies on white cardstock and heat emboss with white embossing powder. Using blending brushes, I inked the background with Bumblebee, Magenta Madness, and Misty Moonlight. The background is also sprayed with shimmer paint to give it some shine.

MARCH 2021

Angie McKenzie  ●  Mikaela Titheridge  ●  Alejandra Gomez
Leonie Stuart  ●  Danielle Kassing  ●  Annette Ball
Vicki Milyard  ●  Aurélie Fabre  ●  Kristie Wilson
Mo Rootes  ●  Gez Carpenter  ●  Terry Hamilton
Deb Macdowell  ●  Narelle Fasulo  ●  Karen Henderson
  Jill Chapman  ●  Melissa Faust  ●  Susan Webster
Anne Marie Hile  ●  Chris Smith  ●  JoAnn Pollock
Cheryl Hamilton  ●  Tricia Butts  ●  Teri West
Susan Simpson  ●  Rochelle Laird-Smith  ●  Lisa Mackey
Libby Fens  ●  Ann Krucek  ●  Jan Musselman
Shel Anderson  ●  Sue Allen  ●  Jo Blackman

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – Butterfly Brilliance, So Sentimental
Die Cutting & Embossing – Brilliant Wings dies, Hippo & Friends dies
Ink – Bumblebee stamp pad, Magenta Madness stamp pad, Misty Moonlight stamp pad, Versamark stamp pad
Paper – Basic White Thick cardstock, Misty Moonlight cardstock
Accents & Embellishments – Elegant Faceted gems
Coloring Tools – Blending Brushes, Frost White Shimmer Paint, Stampin’ Spritzer, white embossing powder
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals

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Butterfly Bouquet Swap Cards

I participated in a swap using the new Butterfly Bouquet Suite of products and these are the beautiful cards I got in return.

There are too many supplies to list but here are the items in the Butterfly Bouquet Suite
Supplies:
Bundles – Butterfly Brilliance Bundle, Butterfly Brilliance Collection
Stamp Sets – Butterfly Brilliance
Die Cutting & Embossing – Brilliant Wings dies
Paper – Butterfly Bijou Designer Series Paper, Natural Touch Specialty Paper
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Butterfly Brilliance Swap Card

I joined in a swap for the new Butterfly Brilliance bundle and the limited time only paper (Butterfly Bijou 6″ x 6″ designer series paper and Natural Touch Specialty paper).

Not only do I have the butterfly swap in this post but I have two others to show how the same layout can be made no mater what you have. One of them is even masculine.

The squares are 1 1/2″ and the mat is 1 5/8″ with alternate corners rounded.

I sprayed Frost White Shimmer Paint mixed with rubbing alcohol on both layers of the butterfly but you can’t really see it in my photos.

The dragonfly was stamped on vellum cardstock using Mossy Meadow and then embossed using clear embossing powder. It works on vellum because the dye ink doesn’t dry quickly, if at all.

My photo also doesn’t show how the gold embossing is shiny on the globe and base as well as the brass in the goldish paper.

Supplies:
Stamp Sets – A Little Lace, Beautiful World, Butterfly Brilliance, Dragonfly Garden
Die Cutting & Embossing – Brilliant Wings dies, World Map dies
Punches – Dragonflies punch, Detailed Trio punch
Ink – Misty Moonlight stamp pad, Mossy Meadow stamp pad, Versamark stamp pad
Paper – Butterfly Bijou 6″x6″ designer series paper, Dandy Garden 6″x6″ designer series paper, World of Good Specialty designer series paper, Basic Black cardstock, Basic White Thick cardstock, Misty Moonlight cardstock, Vellum cardstock
Accents & Embellishments – 2020 – 2022 In Color enamel dots, Rhinestone Basic Jewels
Coloring Tools – Clear embossing powder, Gold embossing powder, Frost White Shimmer paint, Stampin’ Spritzer
Tools – Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored, Stamparatus, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick
Adhesive – Stampin’ SEAL, Stampin’ Dimensionals, liquid glue

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