You Make My Heart Soar

Hello, Everyone! It's Allison here, and I'm excited to be back on the Butterfly Reflections, Ink. blog. Today, I am sharing a card featuring a few adorable stamps from Sunny Studio's latest release. All supplies that I used can be found in the BRI online shop.

I have recently been spending a lot of time cleaning and organizing my craft room. This is starting to become a habit every year after the holidays! One of the good things about cleaning is that you run across things you may have forgotten about. I have tons of backgrounds that I have made and stashed away in various places, and I'm trying to start making use of them. This particular background really caught my eye because the colors reminded me of this month's mood board challenge. So, I knew it was the perfect time to put it to use.

If you haven't already seen the January Mood Board, it's another gorgeous one. There is still plenty of time left in the month to play along. Just tag your creations with #brimoodboard for your chance to win a $20 credit to the online shop.

My "found" background was the result of smooshing several different colors of Distress Oxide Inks onto glossy card stock. This technique is really fun, and although I couldn't tell you the exact colors I used for this one, I bet I could guess that there were some pinks, yellows, and blues! The trick to this technique is to dry each layer before applying the next and then to rub Distress Micro Glaze over the finished product.

My stamped images come from the new Passionate Penguins and Heart Bouquet stamp sets. I colored the adorable penguin and the balloons with my Copic markers. To frame and highlight my background, I used the Inverted Stitched Scallop Circle Die from Pinkfresh Studio. For the stitching detail around the white panel, I used one of my oldest die sets from My Favorite Things. This die set from Pink & Main is almost identical, and has the same size die that I used - 4" x 5.25".

The sentiment comes from the adorable Up With Love stamp set from Mama Elephant. I stamped it with To finish my card, I sprinkled a few sparkling clear sequins on the background and added some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss and Midas Touch to the balloons.

Thanks for joining us today! Be sure to check out all of the goodies in the online shop - there are so many fun new releases that are available now.

Wishing you all a crafty day,

Allison

Comments

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

Butterfly Reflections, Ink

Search This Blog