Vintage Butterfly Card with Tim Holtz Supplies and new Speckled Egg Ink!

Hi my lovely friends! The week is flying by – like a butterfly! It's been another historic week in our country. I'm not sure how much more we can all bear. I'm praying and crafting and working… Trying to make sense of what's happening. I pray for our country and all her people. I pray for peace and a restoration to some kind of normal. I pray that everyone can heal, and get back to work and love. I hope you are doing well in your part of the world. Art is my therapy and I've been trying to create each day to maintain sanity. It's been in the 100's again so more time inside for sure! I got my hair cut yesterday for the first time since January and it felt so good. So good to see my stylist and have human interaction and so good to get my mop chopped off! 

Today's card started out by me wanting to use the new Tim Holtz Distress Color -Speckled Egg! I sat down with my new ink pad and embossing glaze and my card sort of grew from there! I made the ribbon first, then I thought it would be super pretty combined with Vintage Photo Ink and Wild Honey Ink. I have an IKEA Raskog Cart that has all my Tim Holtz products. I wheeled that baby over to my desk, and then basically dumped it all out on the floor! Ha! I thought I would make an ocean theme project, but what called out to me was butterflies! Here's my final card – it's a 5.25" x 5.25" square. Lots of pictures coming….

 

Speckled Egg is the most beautiful shade of blue! It's perfectly placed between Tumbled Glass and Broken China! It's vintagey and soft and gorgeous. I'm smitten already and know I'll be adding it to the lineup a lot! Blue and Orange are complimentary colors on the color wheel – so it looks good next to the Wild Honey Distress Ink. Warm/Cool contrast. I used the Detailed Butterflies Dies, a cool embossing folder, and some tags… I'll walk you through it!

 

I die cut the butterflies from Bristol Cardstock because it can hold up to lots of water and ink. The card is layered with some aqua cardstock from my stash and then the awesome DCWV vintagey text paper. Everything was inked and splatterd and glittered….

 

Here's a close up of the butterfly. See how it's shiny??? OOH LA LA! It's the new Speckled Egg Embossing Glaze. It's my first time using Embossing Glaze! What is it?? It's like embossing powder (so you heat and melt it) but it comes out shiny and translucent!!! EEP. So you can see the ink and stuff underneath the soft subtle color. WOWZA. Gonna buy some more colors of this – stat. I put on three layers of the glaze. I used Versamark ink with my fingers and then the glaze.

 

I used a #8 Manila Tag and ran it through my machine with this clock embossing folder. Then I used Speckled Egg, Vintage Photo and Wild Honey to  ink it up. This is several layers of ink. Ink it, dry it, ink it, dry it, splatter it, dry it… At one point my tag was actually smoking!! HAHAHA. It's hard to see in the photo but I also used my fingers in some Nuvo Mousse to add gold to it. And then glitter. The second butterfly (the brown one) also has embossing glaze on it. I sprinkled the glaze onto it and then removed a lot of it with my fingers (messily) and then heated it. It gave a different, but still cool effect. 

 

Here's how I made the tag and butterfly!! On my craft sheet I smushed the three ink colors and then sprayed water onto the color. I sort of mixed it together with a brush and then laid the tag down into the mix of colors. Here's the trick: Do the first pass of this and dry your tag with your heat tool. Then add some more and dry that. Keep going until it looks the way you want it to! My fingers were blue for a few days! HA. 

 

This is my tag with ink only – before all the other stuff.

 

And here's that pretty butterfly!!

 

And the pretty ribbon – with some hydrangeas from my front yard. I think this photo gives you a good representation of the color…

 

The smaller tag was inked around the edges. Then I used my paint brush to drip ink from the top to the bottom of it. Then I used the stamps to make the sentiment in brown ink. After the tags and butterflies were done, it was time to add all the details! A pretty metal floral piece, a pen nib, some linen ribbon, a bow….

 

 

 

 

 

Because I always mess up glitter and Stickles…I wait until the card is completely assembled before I apply them! SO once my card was done I used my fingers and a paintbrush to add the new Stickles Moon Dust Glitter Gel!! I added it to the butterflies, the leaves, and even to the ribbon. Just wherever I wanted a highlight of sparkle. This is a new product to me too. I like that it dries fast and it's very pretty!

Thank you for stopping by today!! It was my pleasure to share this card with you!! I hope I've encouraged you to play – get messy – try something new! All of these techniques are fun. Pick your favorite colors and GO!! The world needs more love and art right now. Please take care until I see you again soon! XOXO

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