I cannot get enough butterflies this spring and I’m so smitten with the versatility of this stamp set! There are so many possibilities with the shapes and patterns but the solid butterflies also offer a chance to play with fun inking techniques like this one!
Here are the Distress ink colors I used:
Carved Pumpkin
Picked Raspberry
Wilted Violet
Mermaid Lagoon
Salvaged Patina
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you were inspired by this technique and card.
Hi everyone! Rebecca here. One of the many things I love about Pretty Pink Posh dies is that they often cut an adorable image AND faux stitched or pierced lines. Combining different Pretty Pink Posh dies with these additional elements makes creating a pretty Mother’s Day card with tons of interest so quick and easy!
Use other colors of cardstock to cut out several Stitched Butterflies Dies and flowers from the Spring Mug Additions Dies. Adhere the layers of the flowers together and then pop up the butterflies and flowers around theEyelet Circlesentiment. Adhere some of your favorite confetti mix to add some shine! And that’s it.
I think you will be amazed when you see how much interest these dies add! Thank you so much for stopping by!
Hello crafty friends. It’s Lisa Mears on the blog today. I’m going to be using the Stitched Butterflies dies from the newest release to make two cards. I knew I wanted my butterflies to have more than one color on their wings so a great way to achieve that look is to do some ink-blending.
If you would like to see how I made my cards, watch my video below or on YouTube.
First, I die cut the Stitched Butterflies with Scrapbook.com Mixed Media White Smooth Cardstock. The smooth white cardstock, coupled with the Ranger Distress Oxide inks, made the ink-blending so effortless. The smooth and creamy texture of Distress Oxide ink allows for seamless blending, creating a beautiful gradient from one color to the next one.
The Distress Oxide inks I used for the butterflies in my first card include:
Top Butterfly: Tumbled Glass and Squeezed Lemonade Middle Butterfly: Kitsch Flamingo and Squeezed Lemonade Bottom Butterfly: Shaded Lilac and Kitsch Flamingo
I used the Layered Butterfly Floral Stencil for the background of my card. This stencil has a mix of butterflies and flowers which I inked in several different spring color Distress Oxide inks including Shaded Lilac, Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemonade, Saltwater Taffy, Cracked Pistachio, and Tumbled Glass. I even ink-blended two colors of ink for the butterflies in the stencil using a very detailed ink blending brush to get into the small areas of the stencil.
For my next card, I used the Pierced Leafy Vines Plate for my card background. I die cut it with Scrapbook.com Mixed Media White Smooth Cardstock and added the following Distress Oxide inks: Saltwater Taffy, Squeezed Lemonade, Cracked Pistachio, and Tumbled Glass.
Hi everyone! Rebecca here with a spring themed card! Today I am creating a butterfly wreath! To create the background for this card, I used some light colorful inks on the Layered Floral Vines Stencils.
To create the butterflies, I used the Decorative Butterflies stamp set to stamp a whole bunch of small, medium and large butterflies. The great thing about this set is that you have the option of creating outlines, solids and patterns and can really play with different color combinations. I stamped and heat embossed several gold butterfly bodies. I then used the Decorative Butterflies coordinating dies to cut out all of the butterflies and their bodies.
For the sentiment I used a stamp from the Decorative Butterflies stamp setand stamped it on one of the solid pink butterflies I had created. Then I popped that up on a small Eyelet Circles die cut out of white cardstock. Then I used the Eyelet Circles dies to cut a larger circle to use as the base of my wreath. The sentiment circle went in the center and I popped up the butterflies on the edge of the large circle. First I bent up the wings and then I placed one small foam square in the center of the butterfly to give it even more dimension.
I had so much fun creating this spring themed Hello Friend card, but this design and sets could be used for a variety of other cards and would be perfect for a mother’s day card! I hope you’ll try these sets and create your own butterfly wreath with your favorite colors!
Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video today. I felt inspired to combine flowers for a Spring wreath from this year and last year’s Spring releases!
I started with my background and I had a natural, apricot cardstock in my stash and I did a tone on tone look by blending Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide with the Easter Words Stencil. After splattering a green, metallic watercolor, I used the largest Stitched Torn Rectangle Die when it was dry.
Next I stamped my images with an alcohol marker friendly black ink – I stamped the wreath and small flowers from the Leafy Spring Wreath Stamp Set along with the daisies and bow from the Daisies Stamp Set. I used my OLO markers to color them in and you can see the colors in my video today.
When I was done coloring, I used the Daisies Coordinating Diesand Leafy Spring Wreath Coordinating Dies to cut all of the images out. I planned out my wreath and adhered the flower and bow to the wreath with liquid adhesive. I used foam adhesive to attach my wreath to the stenciled panel.
I had a yellow, scalloped Sentiment Strip Diecut from another project and was happy it matched the yellow of my flowers! I cut another strip from white cardstock and stamped my sentiment from the Sentiment Strips: Easter Stamp Setwith pink ink. I layered the die cuts together and popped it up on my panel with foam adhesive as well.
The panel was attached to my card base and I added a few 4mm Clear Droplets on the wreath to give it some subtle shine and a dewy look! I hope you enjoyed today’s card – I’m so inspired by the apricot, pink, green and yellows… Beautiful colors for Spring!
Hi Crafty Friends! Carly here and I can’t wait to share my latest card with you! It’s got butterflies, rainbows and a surprise inside…perfect for spring!
The Stitched Butterflies die set on the card front make for a cute, clean & simple card! But the butterflies also look amazing adhered together and hidden inside for a rainbow surprise!
The interactive element is so easy to do and can easily be customized to make your card more or less dimensional.
Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video on the Pretty Pink Posh YouTube channel today. I’m continuing my collection of making holiday themed box cards with Spring and Easter!
I started with die cutting the Scallop Box Card Dies out of yellow cardstock for the base pieces and smooth, white cardstock for the scalloped pieces to do some ink blending. I used the new Layered Butterfly Floral Stencils with Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberry, Saltwater Taffy, Salvaged Patina, and Squeezed Lemonade to create the design on the scalloped die cuts. I assembled the Scallop Box Card base together and added the stenciled scalloped pieces to the panels.
Using a large piece of watercolor cardstock, I used the same Distress Oxides to ink squish and blend all the colors to give a watercolor look. I also splattered on gold watercolor for some sparkle! When it was dry, I used theStitched Eggs DiesandDecorative Butterflies coordinating dies to cut out eggs and butterflies. I die cut as much as I could out of the panel, but only a used a few for today and I’ll save the rest for a future project.
I glued all of the layering dies together and created a scene on the shelf piece of my box card with the eggs, butterflies and flowers. I love the softness of the eggs and bright pink of the flowers! I stamped my sentiment from the Decorative Butterflies stamp set onto my die cuts and added the sentiment to the front of the box card. My little bunny feet are sticking up above the sentiment and they’re my favorite part of the box card!
Box cards have been so fun to make and I love having my Valentine, St. Patrick’s Day and now Easter box cards on my desk! I’d love to know what I should make for May – probably something for Mother’s Day? What would you like to see?!
Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video today. I was inspired by some birthday patterned paper I had in my crafty stash to make colorful balloons on a birthday card!
I started with die cutting the Pierced Stars Plate Die from a piece of confetti patterned paper to be the background of the card. Then I cut out different pieces from the Party Balloons Dies to make six different balloons – the traditional and star balloons. I layered different pieces together to create a striped, star balloon and a balloon with star details. There are also balloons cut from holographic paper to create the look of mylar balloons!
Once the balloons were ready, I also had the balloon strings from the Party Balloons Dies in a dark blue cardstock, I layered them with liquid glue and foam adhesive in 1mm and 2mm thicknesses on to the Pierced Starsbackground.
My sentiment is stamped from the Birthday Train Stamp Set to create “Hooray It’s Your Day”. I stamped “Hooray” on white cardstock in blue ink and used the Birthday Train Coordinating Die to cut it out. “It’s Your Day” is stamped in the same blue ink on cardstock cut into a banner from the Sentiment Strips Dies.
I added the sentiments to the card, under the balloons, with foam adhesive to finish the card! I hope you enjoyed today’s process video for a fun and relatively quick and easy party card.
Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video today. Last month I made a Valentine’s Day Box Card and I was inspired to create one for St. Patrick’s Day as well!
I started with all of my die cutting of the Scallop Box Card Dies and Stitched Shamrocks Dies from different shades and paper types of green cardstock. My Scallop Box Cardbase was die cut from a solid green cardstock, the scalloped pieces from white cardstock, and the Stitched Shamrocks from a mix of glitter, shimmer and solid light green cardstock.
Using the Layered Shamrocks Stencils, I ink blended different shades of green ink using the Pinkfresh Studio Over the HIlls Ink Cube Bundle onto the scalloped die cut pieces from the Scallop Box Card Dies. Once I was happy with the shamrocks, I also splattered on some metallic gold watercolor and set them aside to dry.
Next I colored in the pot of gold, gold coin, rainbow and shamrocks from the Lucky Stamp Set with alcohol markers, then used the Lucky Coordinating Dies to cut them out. I also stamped the “Lucky” sentiment and solid shamrocks in dark green ink on white cardstock, and “You’re So” with the same ink on a Sentiment Strip cut from light green cardstock.
I love making scene cards and theScallop Box Card die set makes it so easy to create a fun little scene inside.
I started by coloring the stamps from the Penguin Pals stamp set and the Party Time stamp set using Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens in the following colors: Turquoise Green, Bright Yellow, Yellow, Light Carmine, Light Gray, Cool Gray 6, and Lilac.
Next, I used the Layered Balloons Stencilto create a background of balloons. I inked the balloons using the following Distress Oxide inks: Shaded Lilac, Salvaged Patina, Squeezed Lemonade, Worn Lipstick, and Hickory Smoke.
Once I finished inking the stenciled background, I die cut it with the layering dies from the Scallop Box Card. I stamped the sentiment from the Party Time stamp setonto the rectangular layering piece that goes in front of the box card and then added all of the layering die cuts to the card base. I wanted it to look like there were balloons floating throughout the sky.
Finally, I added the stamped images to the box card to create a fun little birthday scene. I love using this Scallop Box card die setto create little scenes with stamps. It makes it look so dimensional too!
Thank you so much for stopping by today. Have a great day! Lisa Mears
