Butterfly Reflections, Ink

Hi, my lovelies!  Toni here with you sharing a Valentine card for my favorite monkey. I started the card by using a Clarity Stencil Brush and Distress Oxide Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn to stencil the leaves onto the card front. I then diecut the Lawn Fawn Polka Hearts Backdrop die. I can tell I'm going to get a lot of use out of this one!  I next sponged the card base with Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry using the negative of a heart die as a mask. I then covered the card base with Scor-Tape and laid down the card front. I sprinkled glitter over the entirety and burnished the glitter into the hearts using my finger. Such fab shine! Now the really really fun part!  I stamped the Sunny Studio Love Monkey images using Memento Tuxedo Black and colored them with Copics . They are centered on top of a Lifestyle Crafts diecut heart that I sponged with Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry and Candied Apple . I had intended to stamp the sentiment onto a ban...

Hello everybody, this is Nicky with you one last time in my 4 month design team role for Butterfly Reflections Ink, it has been such a pleasure and privilege to share my creations with you.  My card today features the adorable Popping In by Waffle Flower Crafts . A panel was die cut and then delicately ink blended using Tumbled Glass Distress Ink  together with my Clarity Stencil Brushes .  I then stamped all the images from Popping In using Ranger Archival Ink .  I then watercolour painted everything using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then die cut and adhered them into position on the ink blended panel using dimensional foam tape in various depths.   The colour scheme of the card is quite clearly to welcome a baby boy, so I just used the Congratulations stamp twice in the corner of the base layer of the card.  I then adhered the panel into position with craft foam sandwiched behind it.  Your cards will survive being mailed so much...

Hello everybody, Nicky back with you today with another sweet card this time using the adorable Bunny Tea Time  by Memory Box . The base of this card is made from Kraft card stock which I am increasingly using because I love both pastel and more vibrantly coloured decorated panels against this contrasting background - just a personal choice of course! The white panel was ink blended softly using the fabulous Clarity Stencil Brushes to create a focal point using Distress Ink  and then the 'thank you' sentiment was stamped repeatedly around the edge in a circle using Ranger Archival Ink .  Any black ink would have sufficed in this application but the Ranger Archival Ink provides such a strong and true black image every time you stamp provided you don't rush it! Next i stamped up all of my images using the same Archival Ink.  I watercolour 'painted' them using the wonderful Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers  and a Watercolor Brush Pen  - you'll nee...

Happy Valentine's Day everybody, Nicky back with you today with a dose of adorable bunnies.  My card today features the Open Studio/Memory Box stamp set Birthday Bunnies .  I couldn't resist getting these as soon as I saw them.  They have coordinating dies and there are other bunny sets in the series, so if these appeal to you then you might want to check out the other sets too! These bunnies remind me of my favourite illustrations from children's books!  The background stencil is by Echo Park and is called Mini Leaves Stencil .  I just love this stencil and have loads of plans for it but here I blended 3 different colours of  distress inks .  I can imagine this stencil used with an ombre of greens or with warm autumnal hues among other ideas.  You could use sponge daubers to ink through your stencil but I am a huge fan of the beautiful Clarity Stencil Brushes .  They've been very popular and are currently sold out at Butterfly Reflection...

Hello everybody this is Nicky here with you today with my first post as a Design Team member for Butterfly Reflections Ink Shop .  I am delighted to be here with you all sharing my love of card making and hopefully inspiring many of you with your future projects. Today's card features the totally adorable You Make My Tail Wag  stamp and coordinating die  set by My Favorite Things. I started out by masking off my card panel and then using Distress Inks  and the totally AMAZING Clarity Stencil Brushes  I ink blended the strip of sky and grass.  After removing my masking tape I added a strip of Grassy Border  from Lawn Fawn for a little dimension.  I then stamped and watercolor painted the cute dog and his dog house using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers   and die cut them and applied them to the card using some dimensional foam tape.  Next I layered on the die cut clouds and sun from Spring Showers  by Lawn Fawn.   F...