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Shadow Stamp with Butterfly

Description

A textured natural white deckle edge card has three layers of card in silver linen, purple and satin sheen. The top layer is stamped with a shadow stamp and a butterfly. The design is surrounded with a silver sticker border. The card is finished with a cut-out butterfly, a satin gauze ribbon and a With Love & Best Wishes sticker.

Materials used

• Textured natural white deckle edge single fold greetings card 104mm x 152mm (4¼ in x 6 in)
• Silver linen card 55mm x 65mm
• Purple card 50mm x 60mm
• Satin sheen card 45mm x 55mm
• Silver border sticker
• Sticker With Love & Best Wishes
• Hero Arts shadow stamp A1873 Background
• PSX stamp B2928 Swirl Butterfly
• Ultimate Metallic Purple stamp pad
• Satin gauze ribbon
• Purple Identi-pen
• Adhesive
• Icicle fabric paint

Method

Stamp the shadow stamp twice on the satin sheen card with purple ink, using the illustration as a guide.

Stamp the butterfly on top of this.

Mount the silver linen card on the greeting card with adhesive.

Add the purple card and then the satin sheen card.

Surround the silver card with strips of silver border sticker.

Stamp and emboss a butterfly on paper with purple ink. Cut this out and mount it on the lower left corner of the silver card.

Tie a bow of satin gauze ribbon and glue it in position at the top of the satin sheen card.

Add blobs of Icicle fabric paint to the butterfly wings.

Colour the "With Love & Best Wishes" sticker with a purple Identi-pen while it is still on the backing sheet. When it is dry position it on the greeting card.

Shadow Stamp with Butterfly card made by Valerie Custance.

Shadow stamp A1873 Background reproduced with kind permission of the copyright owners Hero Arts and may not be reproduced elsewhere without their permission.
Swirl Butterfly stamp B2928 reproduced with kind permission of the copyright owners PSX and may not be reproduced elsewhere without their permission.

Please note that this is an old project. It is left here for the interest of the reader. Some of the materials used may no longer be available. We regret that we can not help you find a source of supply for these.