BA Inspiration - Bright Butterflies Layering Stencil

Good morning, Julie here with a little bit of BA Inspiration using a stencil released earlier this year, Layering Bright Butterflies .

It's my daughter's birthday today and she loves the colour purple, and hates florals, so butterflies are always a good option for a card theme. Here is what I came up with. 

This is a 5 x 7 inch card, so it needed quite a few butterflies to cover it. My idea was to give them a bit of dimension by layering the top wings over the base ones. To achieve this I started by inking through the outline stencil with a soft lilac, Wilted Violet DI and a light hand. On some scrap white card, I also inked the top half of the butterfly. Each layer was then added using more of the Wilted Lilac, increasing the strength of the inking with each layer. A white gel pen was then used to add a small dot to the center of all the circles and a larger center for the flower.

Now to the tricky bit, fussy cutting all the elements. I chickened out on the body and antennae and used a die from an MB set cut some from silver glitter paper. The top half of each butterfly was added with foam pads and the silver body with glue.

I made a base card from an A4 piece of lilac card and cut a smaller rectangle with a die to create the raised central panel. This was raised up over the card front with a panel of purple fun foam. The butterflies were then arranged over the whole card and attached with glue or foam pads where necessary. All over hanging bits were trimmed away. To add more interest, I mixed up a thick mix of white acrylic paint and water and splattered it all over. A few clear sequins were added for even more bling!

My sentiment, MCM Everyday Sentiments, was stamped on white and heat embossed with silver EP before being fussy cut and glued to the finished card.

So that's all from me for today, I did veer from my normal clean and simple style but it was for my daughter's birthday card!

Happy crafting!