Wednesday, 15 February 2012

BJ's Birthday Card

Happy Birthday to my new crafting friend BJ. Had a remit for this card to include: butterflies, lilac, green, and dragonflies (I think that was it!) - not my usual thing although I love butterflies! Have only one butterfly stamp so out it came and I just had to start from there. No dragon flies except a couple of paper punched black ones left over  from daughter's card making days when she was younger. I used lots of distress inks, acetate, cosmic shimmer, watercolour pencils and a little bit of gold rub n buff on the black dragon flies. . . . . . .
PS since I've been back from holiday I notice that 'Try It On A Tuesday' has an acetate challenge so I'm going to enter my card in that.
Stamped background with archival ink and added colour using distress ink. Hand painted the butterflies.  The cute little dragon fly can be seen in the top left corner.

Embossed acetate placed over the stamping. Die cut, inked and glossy accented Happy Birthday

Inside: stamped image with distress ink and another die cut finished in the same way as the one on the front

Finished by matting onto cardstock with yet more distress. The embossed/painted acetate sits over the main part of the card framing the stamped, painted images.

The envelope got the treatment too just to finish the job!
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10 comments:

  1. BJ15 February 2012 at 10:50

    I love my card Julia it is superb. Handpainted butterflies are exquisite. You really put loads of time and effort into your craftwork thank you so much.

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    1. Julia S-W15 February 2012 at 21:55

      I'm really glad you liked it - bit worried at first! Style is such an individual thing isn't it and it's difficult making for someone else. Juliax

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  2. Suze Bain15 February 2012 at 11:20

    Wow Julia, this is stunning. I see your background is in textiles, this certainly shines through in your cardmaking - beautiful colours and texture. Are the gold flourishes an embossing folder inked with gold? Beautiful work. xx

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    1. Julia S-W15 February 2012 at 21:52

      Hi Suze. Thanks for the lovely comment. I embossed acetate and then painted gold acrylic into the debossed(?) side, swiped as much of the excess off as possible, added another coat and then cleaned up again which seems to involve lots of scraping with my nails! Buffed it up with cotton wool. Not my idea - got it from Neil Walker at the Craft Barn. I've fallen in love with the technique though. Juliax

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  3. Anonymous15 February 2012 at 19:32

    Absolutely lovely Julia - lucky old BJ :-)
    Karen xxx

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    1. Julia S-W15 February 2012 at 21:53

      Thanks Karen glad you like it! I get confused: are you kokobean too?? Juliax

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  4. Neil27 February 2012 at 15:36

    Hi there, thanks for sharing in the acetate challenge at Try it on Tuesday this week. I always enjoy seeing people playing with techniques I share so I'm glad you liked it enough to use on this lovely card!

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  5. Meggymay27 February 2012 at 20:37

    Beautiful card, love your embossed acetate. Thankyou for joining us at TioT's this time
    Yvonne

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  6. Unknown28 February 2012 at 00:47

    What a pretty card, thanks playing along with TioT this week
    hugs
    Ildiko

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  7. Karen28 February 2012 at 10:38

    Oh oh oh this is sooo beautiful, I love that gold on there! x

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Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. Juliax

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