Lavender Butterflies and Color Wash Flowers

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Good Monday morning!  I hope you had a restful and relaxing weekend. I am sharing another flower card using the Belleek inspired embossing technique. It creates such a lovely background for florals.  I also used my color wash technique on the little flowers for this project.

KC Butterflies are Free 7 right

I stamped the butterflies with versa on the lavender cardstock,  embossed with gold embossing powder and cut out to pop up on the card front.  I punched several flowers out of plain white cardstock, wet then well with a brush and lightly dotted lavender ink into the centers and let it run up the petals.  I used a wet brush to help the process along.  The trick is to be sure you have plenty of water on the flower so it can easily run.  

KC Butterflies are Free 7 center

I heat set the flowers and then formed the petals with needle nose pliers and then pushed down on the flower center on a mat with a stylus to form the center flower.  I die cut foliage and attached it to the lattice layer with Glossy Accents.  I attached the flowers to the foliage and lattice and then applied tiny white pearls in the flower centers. The butterflies were the final finishing touch to complete the card.  I really love how this turned out.  I may have like it better with white butterflies.  Next time!

KC Butterflies are Free 7 left

I hope you have a great week. Thanks for looking in today.  Thanks to those of you who shopped and purchased at my card sale.

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Stamps: Rubbernecker Butterflies are Free 538 and Butterfly Inchies 427 (Inchies match several butterflies in the larger Butterflies are Free set)
Paper: Lavender Lace, White
Ink: Lavender Lace, Versa
Accessories: Martha Stewart Lattice Punch, EK Success Mini Daisy Punch, My Favorite Things Leafy Flourish Die, Gold Embossing Powder, Sizzix Corner and Lattice 2 Pack Embossing Folder , Mounting Tape, Glue Dots, Glossy Accents, Snips, Pearls, Needle Nose Pliers

19 thoughts on “Lavender Butterflies and Color Wash Flowers”

  1. Lovely card…I love the background and
    the cute little flowers. I haven’t tried
    the color wash yet but plan to do so very
    soon.

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  2. Kittie….as usual, you astound your followers. This card is beautiful. The Beleek embossing technique is lovely. Can’t wait to try it out.

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  3. This is just stunning, so much detail!!! I love your flowers and foliage on the lattice and the background is perfect. Fantastic, your work takes my breath away every time!!!

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  4. Your card is so beautiful! I love the lavender butterflies. They just reinforce the gorgeous monochromatic colour scheme you have going.
    Thank you for sharing the tips on creating those dainty little blossoms. If it storms today, I know what I am going to be doing. 🙂

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  5. I think the purple and gold butterflies stand out more than white would. This card is stunning – will have to try the color wash to see if I like it. Thanks for getting my creative juices going.

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