Beautiful Flowers...

...can solve a multitude of problems. And even if that's not true, beautiful flowers sure can't hurt anything!

Hi friends! Emily Midgett back on the BRI blog once again with a pair of cards full of flowery goodness! I've been playing along with #thedailymarker30day over on Instagram (I'm @eamidgett if you'd like to follow along!), and I watercolored this first panel last week:

I simply stamped Avery Elle's Floral Frame onto some Canson Montval watercolor paper using my handy-dandy Mini Misti and heat embossed using Ranger White Satin pearl embossing powder. I colored the gorgeous flowers using an array of purple and teal-y green Zig Clean Color markers, blending and adding shadows with a wet paintbrush. The greeting is from Concord and 9th's Beautiful Words stamp set and Wonderful Words dies, stamped with Altenew's Shades of Purple mini ink pads. The die cut sentiment was die cut twice from regular card stock and once from shimmery silver card stock, then glued together to add some dimension. The final touch was a smattering of sequins from the Delphinium mix by Lucy Abrams.

My next card was certainly inspired by the previous... I am really loving this color combination. I received the incredibly beautiful You're My Person set from Concord ad 9th last week, and I couldn't wait to get it all colored up with my Zig markers. I first heat embossed it with white detail embossing powder on another panel of Montval watercolor paper, then colored it with the same purples and teals in the Zig line. Once that was done, it was time to work on the front panel of my shaker. I stamped the Hero Arts Woodgrain Background stamp on a panel of light aqua card stock using Altenew's Cool Summer Nights mini inks. The sentiment, from Concord and 9th's You're My Person set, was also stamped with the Cool Summer Nights mini inks... they aren't lying when they call them "crisp" dye inks... no bleeding with that super detailed sentiment! I die cut the "beautiful" from the C&9th Beautiful You die set using some purple glitter adhesive paper in my stash.

After die cutting an oval from the center of my woodgrain panel, I arranged my sentiment the way I wanted, then realized that the front panel needed to tie into the back panel somehow... so I (being the somewhat crazy person that I am) decided to heat emboss another of the floral stamps from the You're My Person set and color a few blooms, some berries, and some leaves then fussy cut them out... despite their teeny tiny-ness. (You've heard the saying "the heart wants what the heart wants?" Well, the card wanted what the card wanted. It couldn't be helped, even if my carpal tunnel started acting up afterwards....) After arranging my tiny flowers and sentiment pieces on the front of the card, all that was left was to fill the shaker with more Delphinium sequins.

Well, that's all for me today! Thanks for having me back, Vanessa! :)

Baby Tags featuring the We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool!

Happy Monday! This is Kim Hamilton and I am so very excited to be sharing my first post with you for Butterfly Reflections Ink! This is making my first day back to work after a two-week break a happy one! I am sharing baby gift tags today, one of my friends is expecting and not sure what she is having so I made one of each! I used my We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool for the first time and loved it! I cut my own Tim Holtz watercolor paper to the size of tag I wanted (2 3/4 x 4 1/4) and cut the edges with my trimmer. I stamped my sentiments that are by Lawn Fawn Hello Baby with VersaMark ink and used white embossing powder. For the girl tag I used a mix of Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and Abandoned Coral Distress Inks and for the boy tag I used Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron Distress Inks . I sprayed both tags with some water and dabbed it off. I then stamped my images by My Favorite Things Snuggle Bunnies for the girl and Magical Dragons for th

Painting backwards....

Hello, hello! Norine here from The Velvet Lemon blog . It's been a week for introductions hasn't it, but let me just say how delighted I am to have been invited to join such a talented group of paper crafters, and to contribute here at Butterfly Reflections Ink! Today I'm sharing with you, some cards I made by working backwards. What do I mean, you wonder? Well, it's a technique I sometimes enjoy doing, where you "smoosh" your water based ink pads on a craft mat, mist the colors with water and then drag your water color paper through it to create a pretty mess of color. For today's cards, I wanted a blend of blues and greens (always a crowd pleaser) and yellows/pinks. You will always be happier with the results when you keep the green/blues from overlapping with the yellow/pinks, because that just produces an unappealing mud color. I used a variety of Tim Holtz Distress Inks for this project, but any water based inks w

Altenew’s 4th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 3 + Giveaway

Hey, hey BRI friends! We're hopping today to celebrate the 4th Birthday of Altenew , one of our favorite stamping companies! You should have arrived here from the Altenew blog , and we're glad you're here to share the excitement! There are prizes and inspiration and it's going to be FUN! With you today, is Norine from The Velvet Lemon creating for Butterfly Reflections Ink and I have some projects to share today, that I made using some recently released Altenew products . First up, are these two cards created with the Mega Succulent stamp set . I stamped the image onto water color paper using the MISTI , then turned on the music and sat and colored. I used Faber Castell watercolor pencils so I could more easily control where the color would sit and then painted with a water brush . I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of vellum, heat embossed with clear embossing powder to ensure that the ink wouldn't smudge, then tore the vel

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