Hamster Party Boxcard with Davina

Hello crafty friends! Davina here, with a Hamster filled celebration using the new Mama Elephant release, and it’s all available now at Butterfly Reflections Ink. I can’t get enough of these adorable party critters and wanted to markers something special for my post. As I do most times, I’m also using the current BRI Moodboard colors. This color board is a moody romantic collection of grays, pink, and gold. I went with some softer tones for my coloring and just love it.

I love the Mama Elephant Ornate House CC die, and have used it many times to make shaker cards. But, I wanted to use the larger Images from Celebration Hamsters in addition to the cute and tiny Little Hamster Agenda stamps, so I knew I would have to get creative. I decided to play “Dr. Frankenstein” and combine the A2 sized Ornate House CC , with the boxcard portions of the Slim Scene Builder. I’m going to list some step by step directions so you can build you own.

1. Cut A2 sized panel from sturdy cardstock. Use largest layer for boxcard base and smaller layer for background piece. I cut a white Ornate House CC to also put in the background. I trimmed off the bottom so that the top of the house went to the edge of my pink paper.

2. Cut wing shaped side brackets from sturdy cardstock using Slim Scene Builder. Optional use decorative stitched pieces to match background paper.

3. Using the long straight 1inch die from Slim Scene Builder, cut the sturdy cardstock to make front of boxcard. We will trim this piece to fit.

a. Cut off tabs.

b. Score at 3/8 inch. Measure 4.25 and score again, measure 3/8 inch and cut off

c. With scissors trim the new tabs with a slight angle

4. Optional use the long stitched die included in Slim Scene Builder to cut decorative stitched strip from the background paper. You can trim this to fit and hide the edges with images. Or play around with trying to cut the paper again at desired length.

5. To create inserts use sturdy cardstock and trim to 5.25 x 1.5 inches. Measure 1/2 inch and score, measure 4.25 and score. Reinforce the folds them trim this into long 1/2 wide strips. You can now easily mount any decorative paper on top of those brackets. As long as they are 4.25 inches wide (I like to remove 1/8 inch to reduce bulk on those corners)

6. Using your preferred adhesive mount the brackets into the box. Then adhere your cute colored images.

I had a blast stamping and coloring all of my hamster images. They are so easy to color and look cute no matter what. I applied all of my images making sure I could see everyone from the front and even stamped and decorated the back.

It seems like so much work, but I finished this card from beginning to end in less than 3 hours which is fast for me! I normally take between 4-5 hours for a card so this was a WIN!

There is still over a week to p,at along with the BRI Moodboard color challenge. Play along using all 4 colors and the hashtag #brimoodboard for your chance to win $20 to the Butterfly Reflections Ink shop.thank you for stopping by,

Davina

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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