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Embellish a Spring Butterfly Card with 28 Lilac Lane

By Nancy Nally on March 21, 2017 in Card Making, Paper Crafts

It’s officially spring, so let’s use some 28 Lilac Lane to create a butterfly card to send some spring greetings with!

Supplies needed:

28 Lilac Lane “Love Story” embellishment kit
PPA Matte Adhesive
card base
smooth cream cardstock
foam adhesive
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Abandoned Coral, Weathered Wood, & Peeled Paint
Graphic 45 “Nature’s Sketchbook” 6×6 paper pad
Hero Arts “Many Everyday Messages” stamps
Hero Arts “Newsprint Butterfly” stamp

This butterfly card uses the “Love Story” kit by 28 Lilac Lane. With cream ribbon, heart charms, and embellishments in shades of red, pink & white, this kit is as versatile as it is gorgeous! Although at first glance this kit is a Valentine’s Day, wedding, or “I love you” themed kit, projects like this one are a great reminder to look at the kits for the colors of their contents as well as their themes.

To start making this butterfly card, cut a piece of green patterned paper to 4.25″ by 5.5″, ink the edges, and adhere it to the card base.

Cut a piece of blue patterned paper to 3.75″ by 5″ and ink the edges. Tie the ribbon ends together, and then secure the ribbon around the back side of the blue patterned paper. Adhere the blue patterned paper panel to the card front.

Stamp the butterfly and card sentiment on cream cardstock. Cut out the butterfly. Trim the sentiment into a 5/8″ wide strip, and snip the ends to make a banner.

Adhere the sentiment banner to the top left of the card front, and glue a button on top of it.

Squeeze a strip of glue down onto the body of the butterfly, and then layer seed beads on top of it. Once the glue is dry, use foam adhesive to attach the butterfly to the card front.

And your butterfly card is all finished, except to choose someone special to send it to!

Say “hello” with an Embellished Butterfly Card!

By Nancy Nally on February 7, 2017 in Card Making, Paper Crafts

Today is “send a card to a friend” day. What better way to celebrate someone special in your life “just because” than with a sparkly embellished butterfly card?

Supplies:

28 Lilac Lane “Birds of a Feather” embellishment bottle
PPA Matte Adhesive
Graphic 45 Nature’s Sketchbook (6×6 paper pad & decorative chipboard)
Indigo Blu MegaFlake Starter Kit & Flutterby Dinkie stamp
Blank card (blue)

One of my favorite things about creating with the 28 Lilac Lane embellishment bottles is that they come in an entire rainbow of colors. This means that there is always the perfect bottle for whatever paper collection I’m in love with at the moment. For this new Graphic 45 collection called Nature’s Sketchbook, I reached for “Birds of a Feather”. It’s a perfect match for the blue tones in the papers, and a great way to add pops of colorful sparkle to my metallic butterfly!

This metallic butterfly was created with a glue and metallic flake stamping technique from Indigo Blu. It creates an opaque image even on dark paper, perfect for creating visual pop.

The butterfly is gorgeous on its own but it needed some more color to make it coordinate better with the chipboard. Also, it needed more dimension so it wasn’t overwhelmed by the chipboard elements. The blue sequins and seed beads from “Birds of a Feather,” along with the white pearls, provide just the right touch to take the butterfly from simple to gorgeous!

A few buttons from the bottle finish off the holes on several of the chipboard elements, and the whole thing is tied together beautifully! By mounting the black background on a blue card background, it keeps all of the embellishment contained and coordinated.

Who do you know that would love a blue and gold butterfly greeting? Flutter an embellished butterfly card their way!

Take a Doodle Picnic and Create Some Button Fun Cards

By Admin on June 7, 2013 in Paper Crafts

It summertime…a great time to picnic…creative style. I packed up my bag and headed to the nearby creek to create. This is what I came up with.

I doodles a few flowers and the framed them in and colored them with my Tombow markers and cut them out.I used Power Adhesive Tabs to mount them to pre-cut note cards with envelopes then added buttons from the Laura Kelly collection of bright colors to make them “pop”!