Peacock Butterfly

Today’s card features my favorite new In Color: Pretty Peacock. I though I really love Tranquil Tide that just retired, but this color is even better. It has more blue than green and is such a great deep color! I applied ink to a piece of white cardstock using a brayer to create my background for my embossed butterfly. I love how the gold powder sorta stuck to the inside of the butterfly to create an interesting texture. From there, I cut out a corner of DSP to create a base and then added a sentiment and some gems.

Close up of the embossed shimmer!

• Stamps: Beautiful Day

• Ink: Pretty Peacock, Versamark

• Cardstock: Mosaic Mood DSP, Pretty Peacock, Whisper White

• Accessories: 2019-2021 In Color Faceted Gems

• Tools: Gold Embossing Powder

Big Purple Flower

Today’s card features another watercolor image. I previously colored the large butterfly image in the Beautiful Day stamp set and thought today I would color the large flower. Of course I had to make it purple and feature my favorite retiring color, Fresh Fig. I kept the rest of the card pretty simple to highlight my flower.

• Stamps: Beautiful Day

• Inks: Fresh Fig; Basic Black; Pear Pizzazz; Rich Razzleberry; Peekaboo Peach (retired)

• Cardstock: Fresh Fig; Whisper White

• Accessories: Fresh Fig Ribbon (retired); Clear Enamel Shapes (retired)

• Tools:

Watercolor Butterfly

Today’s card is my result of playing with some ink and watercolor paper. I love the big butterfly from the Beautiful Day stamp set and tried a few different ways to color it. I finally settled on using ink and a watercolor technique to fill in my butterfly. I love how messy the coloring looks. From there, I found some scrap pieces of DSP that coordinate and added some fun embellishments.

• Stamps: Beautiful Day

• Inks: Bermuda Bay; Basic Black; Daffodil Delight; Pear Pizzazz

• Cardstock: Myths and Magic DSP (retired); random yellow scrap; Whisper White

• Accessories: Coastal Cabana / Granny Apple Green Reversible Ribbon; Bermuda Bay sequins (retired); random paper clip

• Tools:

Tea Time Birthday

Today’s card was an attempt to use the pretty, but not quite my style Petal Promenade DSP pack. When faced with florals, I sometimes struggle to find a design that works. For this card, I started by stamping and coloring the tea pot. (Love how that one turned out!!!) From there, I stamped a flower image all over a piece of Powder Pink Cardstock before layering on a piece of DSP. A sentiment and a bit of shine finished off my card.

• Stamps: Beautiful Day; Tea Together

• Inks: Rich Razzleberry; Powder Pink; Rich Razzleberry Blends; Call Me Clover Blends; Pumpkin Pie Blends; Pink Pirouette Blends (retired)

• Cardstock: Petal Promenade DSP; Copper Foil; Rich Razzleberry; Powder Pink; Whisper White

• Accessories:

• Tools: Tea Time Framelits; Circle Framelits

Stained Glass Butterfly

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using embossing. My favorite type of embossing is definitely heat embossing. I started with the idea of using the stained glass technique to highlight the heat embossing. I heat embossed the butterfly and then colored the back of the vellum using Stampin' Blends. From there I pulled some DSP that featured my three color choices and worked well together. It's hard to see in the picture below, but the butterfly really shines in person.

• Stamps: Beautiful Day
• Inks: Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight
• Cardstock: Garden Impressions DSP, Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, Whisper White
• Accessories: Daffodil Delight Ribbon
• Tools: Layering Circles Framelits, Pewter Embossing Powder

Blended Beautiful Day

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using our favorite coloring technique. I go back and forth between technique, but currently I really love coloring with the Stampin' Blends. For my card, I stamped the large flower and sentiment from Beautiful Day and heat embossed them with gold powder. From there I choose a few fun colors and started filling in the flowers. Easy peasy with great results!!

• Stamps: Beautiful Day
• Inks: Versamark; Rich Razzleberry Blends; Calypso Coral Blends; Pink Pirouette Blends
• Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry; Early Espresso; Whisper White
• Accessories: Gold Embossing Powder
• Tools: 

Brusho Bloom

As part of my preorder for the Occasions Catalog, I bought the Brusho Crystal Colour. I've been having fun playing around with them ever since! Today's card was the swap card for my demo group. I stamped the large flower image in black and then applied red and orange Brusho Crystal Colour. I then cut out the blooms. I don't have a decent picture, but I loved how each bloom looked different. From there, I added some DSP and embellishments to create this beautiful card. 

• Stamps: Beautiful Day
• Inks: Basic Black; Brusho Crystals
• Cardstock: Petal Passion DSP; Birthday Memories DSP; Tangerine Tango; Watercolor Paper
• Accessories: Love Mini Tinsel Trim; Doilies
• Tools: 

Brusho Butterfly

Hand's down, my favorite item from the Occasions Catalog is the Brusho Crystal Colour! I have had so much fun playing with them this past month. For today's card, I used Versamark and white embossing powder to create my butterfly image. I then layered on green and blue Brusho Crystals until I was happy with the coverage. From there, I layered on some paper. 

Detail of the embossing and color:

I liked the card, but something was missing a bit... Turns out I was missing sequins to really make this card pop!

• Stamps: Beautiful Day
• Inks: Dapper Denim; Versamark; Brusho Crystals
• Cardstock: Sweet Soiree DSP; Dapper Denim; Watercolor paper
• Accessories: random sequins
• Tools: