Brutus Monroe & Waffle Flower Instagram Hop

 

Welcome to the Brutus Monroe & Waffle Flower Collab!

Waffle Flower is introducing several new products and we've paired

those with some of our favorite Brutus Monroe Products!

Waffle Flower has introduced their new Stencil Mat and

Blending Brushes!  You will see those in action in this post as

I showcase them with Brutus Monroe Aqua Pigments, Embossing Powder

and Conversation Clippings.

For my stencil I chose to use Spread Your Wings from Waffle Flower.  I

also used the coordinating stamp set - Spread Your Wings.  I am

using Aqua Pigments to stencil with - yes - liquid watercolor to stencil with!

Let me show you how well that works!

I cut a piece of 6" x 6" heavy white card stock - mine was 120lb.  I

set my card stock on the Stencil Mat and taped the stencil down with

Purple Tape.  The mat keeps the card stock secure and it doesn't move.

And the Blender Brushes are a dream to work with!  I would never have

guessed that you could get such a smooth blend of color stenciling with

Aqua Pigments!

I was so pleased with how these blended!  And everything stayed secure

on the Stencil Mat.  This went so well I decided to use a stencil for my

background as well.  I used the Sunburst Stencil and used the same colors

of Aqua Pigments to do my stenciling.  All colors are listed below.

Using the Rectangle Foundation Dies from Brutus Monroe I cut my

panel 3 3/4" x 5".

Next, with the coordinating stamp set - Spread Your Wings - I heat

embossed all the butterflies with Raven Sparkle Embossing Powder.

These came out so pretty and sparkly!  I fussy cut my butterflies

right up to the embossed lines.

There are matching dies but I don't have those.  I did not cut out the

antennae of the butterflies.  Next I took a sentiment from the Brutus Monroe

Conversation Clippings - Butterfly Wishes and die cut it with a

banner die from my stash.

Now it was time to assemble my card.  I started with a standard A2

size top folding white notecard.  I adhered the Sunburst panel to the card

base.  Next I added the sentiment which I popped up on foam tape.

I then attached 5 of my 6 butterflies.  I put adhesive on the centers of

the butterflies except the half butterfly which I popped up on foam

tape and is right next to the sentiment.  For just a touch of some added

bling and detail, I adhered black gems to all of the butterflies, adhering

the tiny ones in patterns.

Products used:

Brutus Monroe

Aqua Pigments: Amber, Watermelon, Lime,

Delphinium & Violet

Raven Sparkle Embossing Powder

Rectangle Foundation Dies

Conversation Clippings - Butterfly Wishes

Waffle Flower

Stencil Mat

Blending Brushes

Spread Your Wings Stencil

Spread Your Wings Stamp Set

  Make sure to catch us

on Instagram @brutusmonroe and @Waffleflower where we are having a hop! 

 There are prizes to be won.  You can find everyone's blog post here:

Brutus Monroe Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Brutus Monroe, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.