Fly High

It’s time for my fortnightly Design Team post and I’m using a couple of products from the fabulous new collection, which will be released tomorrow.  Woohoo!  The style of this new collection coordinates perfectly with the floral collection released back in March.  My CAS card uses the Fly High stamp set and Atmospheric stencil.

I started by positioning the three butterflies and sentiments on my square white card panel, stamping with Versafine Clair Nocturne and heat-setting with clear embossing powder.  I do this for two reasons: I like the shine on the sentiments and I can colour using alcohol inks.  I cut the “Fly High” sentiment into two as I didn’t want the horizontal alignment.  I coloured the butterflies using a light and dark shade of purple alcohol marker.

This card was to be a CAS design so I only added a light stencilling of the Atmospheric circles using silver ink.

To give the butterflies dimension but not weight, I used the same markers to scribble colour on some cloudy vellum.  I stamped on scrap paper underneath so I could see where to colour.  Once dry, I stamped with Versafine Nocturne and heat-embossed using black powder and then fussy cut.

The vellum butterflies were adhered to the panel using Distress Collage Medium Matte, applying the adhesive only under the body so that the wings had freedom to move.  I added small black gems to the heads and used Nuvo Crystal Drops in Ebony Black to give the body dimension and left to dry overnight.

To finish the card, the panel was layered onto black card and then onto a white square card blank.

Lots of dimension on those butterflies!