Be the Change ft. Polkadoodles

 

Hello everyone!  Hope your summer is warm and fun!  Today

I'll be sharing a card using products from

Polkadoodles

Blooms Butterfly Bundle

This is a great way to use one digital stamp and yet make them

look completely different from each other!  Let me show you

how I made my card.  I first sort of composed my 3 butterflies.

I copied and pasted these.  I computer journaled the sentiment

and chose a font that I thought would match with the vibe I

was trying to create.

I started by coloring up the butterflies.  I Google-Imaged butterflies for

color inspiration.  Knowing that blue and orange are complimentary colors

on the color wheel, I chose to go with blue and orange.

I started by coloring a monarch butterfly using deep yellows and

oranges.

This next one really went well with the other 2 butterflies.  I

would later darken the edges of this one with black.

This one worked up easily as there weren't as many colors.  Later

on I defined the lines of the wings with a fine black marker.  Next

I had to find some matching paper.  I didn't have anything in mind,

but I saw this golden yellow piece in a 6 x 6 pad and it looked really

good with the butterflies.  

I knew I wanted my butterflies mounted on white.  I used a 3D

embossing folder and embossed a 2 1/8" strip.  Some of the

flowers of the embossing folder looked a lot like some of the

flowers in the paper.  I backed it with black card stock for a narrow

frame of black to help it stand out from the yellow.  

I die cut the sentiments with a narrow sentiment die, cut it to size and 

backed it with the same black card stock.  I fussy cut the butterflies and

edged them with a black marker.  Putting together the finished card

wasn't hard at all!  I put a foam square behind each butterfly body

and mounted them in the spaces created by adhering my 2 sentiment

strips.  I added shimmer to the butterflies and some white gel pen

and that finished my card!

I was waffling about where to place the white strip and thought that

maybe it would look better on the left side, but I really prefer it down

the center!  You can find this digital stamp set and so many others at

Polkadoodles

Supplies used:

Blooms Butterfly Bundle Digital Stamps

A2 size white card base

Coordinating piece of patterned paper

White card stock for embossing

Black card stock

3D embossing Folder

Sentiment die

Foam tape

Shimmer pen

Black Pen for edging

Fine black pen for detail

Copic markers used:

Y17, YR04, YR07, R05,

100, Y15, Y38, BG07, BG26, B05,

E49, E37, B21, B23, B24, B32

Til next time...

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Polkadoodles, 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.