Laugh and Enjoy Butterfly Card

Hi there! Today I'd like to share a card that I made for my sister. I made it during Hero Arts' "inspired by win-a-day" challenge.

I was inspired to make this card based on a pierced card created by Monika in Germany. It was the first time I saw someone put dots on the wings of the butterfly and I really liked the effect. That is what inspired me to create this card.

Laugh and Enjoy Butterfly Card:
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To make this card, I started by stamping the Heart Wing Butterfly using sepia brown ink onto plain white cardstock. Then I set it aside to dry, since pigment inks can take a while to dry fully.

Next I created a card base out of textured white cardstock (4.25" x 5.5" or A2 sized). I stamped the sentiment across the bottom in sepia brown pigment ink and set it aside to dry.

Meanwhile, I used my Label One Nestabilities dies to cut two label shapes, one in textured green cardstock and the other from Basic Grey patterned paper. I ran them through my Cuttlebug and both die cut and embossed the label shapes. This gives them a bit of elegance and dimension. I adhered the label shapes together and then carefully adhered them to the card base, so as to not smudge the sentiment.

When the butterfly was thoroughly dry, I used two colors of orange colored pencils to color it in. Then I used a Liquid Paper correction pen to add white dots along the center of each wing. This reminds me of the white dots you will see on Monarch Butterfly wings and was what inspired me most about Monika's card.

After the Liquid Paper dried, I folded up the wings of the butterfly. Then I adhered three orange gems along the butterfly's body. Two are large, but the third one is a bit smaller. To finish the card, I adhered the butterfly to the label shapes on the card.

Materials used:

• Basic Grey Archaic 6"x6" paper pad: Pods pattern


• cardstock: white, textured white, and textured green


• gemstones: orange (unknown brand)


• Hero Arts CL292 Celebrate All Day (sentiment)


• Hero Arts F5158 Heart Winged Butterfly


• Liquid Paper correction pen


• Prismacolor Premier colored pencils: PC918 orange and PC921 pale vermillion


• Provo Craft Cuttlebug (used to die cut with Nestabilities)


• Spellbinders Nestabilities Label One and embossing pad


• Tsukineko VersaFine pigment ink: Vintage Sepia

Please consider hopping over to leave Monika a nice comment on her card or her blog!

And thanks for stopping by!