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Cards and other handicrafts made by Jean Straw

Tuesday 7 April 2015

Butterfly With Corners

Hi I'm back again because I wanted to enter this card at Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge and I am only just going to make it in time. The challenge theme this time is Butterfly + C for corner. I used these Chocolate Baroque stamps from a set called Harlequin Butterfly. I stamped it with a black Memento ink pad, but I'm afraid it is getting dry and I need to replace or re ink it. So  I wasn't very happy with the impression but rather than stamp it again with a different ink and have to emboss it so that I could use Promarkers for colouring, I decided to trace over the corner design with a gold gel pen, I tried to use a light touch for this so that it didn't quite cover all of the black.  I was reasonably pleased with the result and so I also added some gold to the harlequin background as well, again I used a light touch and blotted away some of the ink with a paper towel. I stamped parts of the image again and coloured the butterfly with Promarkers. For the flowers I used a red Colour Soft pencil for the tips and edges of the petals, and the coloured all over them with a pale yellow Promarker which served to blend the pencil colour to achieve the effect I wanted. My inspiration for this is on the right
here, a beautiful gerbera that was given to me on my birthday last
year and which has just flowered again. I cut out all the extra flowers
and butterfly by hand and used silicon glue to stick them over the main image ones, adding an extra layer to the bottom right hand one.
I used a Krylon pen to make a gold edge before matting onto pearlised turquoise card. I used a white 15cm square base card and stamped the large corner stamp in the top right hand corner and gave it the same treatment with the gold gel pen. The greeting is a free magazine stamp. I gave the finished butterfly a coat of clear Wink of Stellar but I'm not sure how much it shows in the photo. I'm adding a close up below to see if it shows up better, it looked really sparkly in the sunshine this morning.
I am quickly off to link this up at the Butterfly Challenge now, thank
you for taking the time to visit and for your comments, I really
appreciate the all.
Jean

18 comments:

  1. Beautiful card Jean. Great minds think alike! I have been using this stamp too, but for the CB Pot Pourri challenge.

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  2. Very pretty indeed Jean, I love the swirly corners, fabulous work!
    hugs Jacee
    Simply Paper Card Design

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  3. A stunning card Jean. The colours on the Gerbar flower are beautiful, and I do
    your idea to use a gold Krylon pen for the flower edges.

    luv
    irene
    xxxx

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  4. Gorgeous card. I love the touches of gold. xx

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  5. You have the patience of a saint to go over that intricate stamped image with a gold pen! What a fantastic look though!

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  6. Well shoot! I wasn't finished typing when my comment posted! LOL Anyway, as I was saying (before my fingers took a road of their own)......the gold accents look beautiful and I love how you colored the butterfly and flowers too! Beautiful card!

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  7. Well you might be one of the last entrants but my oh my this is a pretty card! I love how delicate it looks with the gold pen tracings and the colours you have chosen. Thankyou for fluttering by #27

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  8. Absolutely beautiful! I love the gold! The butterfly is gorgeous! Thank you for joining the Butterfly Challenge! I like how you interpreted our C for Corners theme with those beautiful corner flourishes!

    KT Fit Kitty
    Guest Designer
    Butterfly Challenge #27

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  9. A beautiful Birthday card, the butterfly looks lovely.
    Yvonne xx

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  10. So pretty this is just gorgeous so much lovely detail and techniques fab card love and hugs Carole x

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  11. This is a gorgeous card Jean and the CB stamps are so pretty, especially those corners! I love the touch of gold over the black stamping too and the extra flowers and so beautifully coloured. x

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  12. Such a pretty card. Love the corner flourish and fabulous colours of the butterfly and flower xx

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  13. Hi Jean. You were a bit last minute like me! Did you make it in time? This is another very pretty card with subtle colouring. I love those gerberas. Mine are a bright, hard orange and nothing like as pretty as yours, so it was a good idea to use it as a colour inspiration. Beautiful corners too. Kate x

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  14. Oh Jean this is absolutely gorgeous. Love those corners.
    Hugs
    xx

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  15. You have such a steady hand as that flourish looks perfect with your added gold detail. The wink of Stella on your butterfly is gorgeous. I can see it clearly in the close up shot.

    You sure acheived realistic flowers...the shading is perfect here...having the blooming gerber to go by was a brilliant idea. I did not realize you could get them to bloom again. I have tossed them out after blooming...I will keep them now!

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  16. You have such a steady hand as that flourish looks perfect with your added gold detail. The wink of Stella on your butterfly is gorgeous. I can see it clearly in the close up shot.

    You sure acheived realistic flowers...the shading is perfect here...having the blooming gerber to go by was a brilliant idea. I did not realize you could get them to bloom again. I have tossed them out after blooming...I will keep them now!

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  17. Gorgeous card Jean, love the touch of gold and your awesome butterfly.
    Veerle x

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  18. What a brilliant idea to trace over your corner with the gold pen, because it looks just beautiful. Loving this butterfly too...colors are so lovely & soft. I'm envious of your even Krylon edges..I can never do that so smoothly. This is one gorgeous card and that filigree corner is so very elegant with this butterfly. Also liked the detail of seeing the corner on the butterfly piece as well as in the background corner. Great card. Hope your wkend was good, TFS & Hugs

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