Butterflies, a Stencil and a Vintage Key

Hello and welcome! 

I hope you had a nice Easter weekend. We had plenty of sunshine here and I enjoyed the beautiful weather, it was perfect timing for a little blogging break over the holiday weekend! 

But we are back again at Allsorts challenge this week with a new theme set by Tracy who wants to see... Butterflies, birds and/or bugs. Hope to see you joining in for a chance to win! We have a new sponsor this time, Helping Hands Craft , who are giving away a  £15 Voucher to one lucky randomly selected winner!

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My card was inspired by this week's MFT sketch. 

To make my card, I started out by stamping and heat embossing the beautiful Penny Black stamp Gathering Together (an older wood mounted stamp) using Pumice Stone Distress Oxide ink (a great neutral ink color) and clear embossing powder. Then I used a circle die to cut this out. 

Next I stamped all the butterflies (the large one is part of the stamp Gathering Together, the small ones are from the retired Stampin Up set Kindess Matters), using Memento Tuxedo ink and I colored using Copic markers. Cutterbee scissors were used to fussy cut all butterflies and I placed them on small die cut circles for some added interest. The main image circle was inked along the edge using Tumbled Glass and Broken China Distress inks.

I used a Tim Holtz stencil from this stamp kit to add a stencil design to the card base with Tumbled Glass ink and then inked the edges here using Broken China ink.

The sentiment from the Penny Black set Snippets was stamped directly onto the card base using Versafine Onyx ink. Foam tape was used to adhere the image circle onto the card base and I finished it off by adding a few black sequins to the circle. These sequins were part of the February 2019 Hero Arts stamp kit.

You can see a closeup above.

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope to see you over at the challenge blog!

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