You Fill My Day Butterflies with Joy Clair Designs

   

Hello everyone!  Today I'm here with more inspiration from the 

Joy Clair Designs

Summerlicious Release 

You Fill My Day Digital Stamp Set

This is such a beautiful image to work with.  Let me show you how I made my card!

As usual, I started in the computer with the butterfly image.  I sized it.  I would get back to the sentiment later on in my process.  I printed this out onto white copy paper.

This quite an intricate image.  I wanted to stamp it onto patterned paper.  The paper would have to be  quite plain without too much of a pattern.  I wanted to make 3 butterflies.  I took my patterned paper and taped it to the copy paper over the butterfly image and sent it through my printer.

I did this 3 times on different colors of paper: blue/green, blue and aqua.  Then I trimmed them down so I could color them with my Copic Markers.  I let the paper color govern the marker colors here.  I used more of a green color combo on the blue/green paper, a blue blend on the blue paper and an aqua blend on the aqua paper.

I did minimal shading on these and I didn't color everything.  I just filled where I thought it would bring out the pattern in the butterfly.  After coloring I fussy cut them.

For the Green I used: G00, G02, G12, G05.  For the Aqua I used: BG01, BG05, BG18.  For the Blue I used:  B32, B23, B24, B28.  There are some tiny dots of black throughout the design.  I used a gold glitter pen and went over these dots.  I also filled in a few places.

I chose a piece of background paper.  It had a similar feel as the paper I printed the butterflies on but it was from another company.  I cut a panel of it for the background at 4" x 5 1/4".  With a scrap of that paper, I printed off my sentiment.

I felt the background panel was going to need something else besides the A2 white top folding card base that I had made, so I cut a piece of gold glitter paper just 1/8" bigger.  These really looked beautiful together.

I die cut my sentiment with a banner die and backed it with the gold glitter paper, leaving a narrow amount showing.  I also used a shimmer pen on the bodies of the butterflies and then put Gloss Accents on them and let them dry.  Time to put my card together.  I adhered my main panel to the card base.  Then I played around the with the placement of the butterflies.  I soon realized that using all 3 butterflies was not going to work visually.  So, I adhered the Blue and the Aqua butterfly to the front.  I bend up their wings before gluing them on.  The I tucked my sentiment in-between them.  For the last bit of sparkle I used moonstone confetti.  I was going to use gold but I realized that they would detract from the butterflies and the gold glitter paper.  The moonstone still gives sparkle without overtaking the background!

Thanks so much for coming today.  I hope you'll give this a try and make your own beautiful creation!

You can find the entire Summerlicious Release here!

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Til next time

Betsy

 

You Fill My Day with Joy Clair Designs

Hello everyone!  Today I'm sharing another card made with one of the sets from the

  Summerlicious Release from

Joy Clair Designs

You Fill My Day

To me, this is a perfect summer card!  Let me show you how I made it!  As I normally do, I first sized my floral image in the computer and the sentiment.  I didn't want to to print this out attached to each other so I set the sentiment off enough to either fussy cut or die cut.  I printed the image out onto Neenah Ivory card stock.

I trimmed away the sentiment part and set it aside while I did my coloring.  Of course, this image looks like a sunflower and it being summer, I chose to Copic color my image in yellows and a bit of red.

I colored the centers first using browns and yellow/golds.  I did this first so I would have something to gauge the rest of the coloring.

I started with my palest yellow first and then slowly worked toward the center of the flower.

I kept coloring around and around the design.  The back petals I mostly colored as one unit, the front ones I varied the colors more.  I kept the veins in the front petals just a light pale color.

When everything was colored, I fussy cut the image and used a black marker around the cut edges and the bits in-between the petals.  Copic colors used: E57, E59, E79, E08, Y21,Y28, YG91, YG95, Y11, Y15, Y17, Y38, R05 and 100.  I made a base from yellow card stock, added a layer of red and on top of that added my black patterned paper...all 1/8" smaller than each other.  I fussy cut my sentiment and went over it with one of my yellow Copic.  I positioned my flower in the upper left corner, adhered it flat to the card and trimmed off the excess.  For embellishment I used a gold glitter gel pen.  I put it in the center of the flower, I dotted the yellow ring in the flower center and I went up part way on the veins in the petals.

 And that finished my card!

The Summerlicious Release is so gorgeous!  So many great sets to choose from!  And it's available as a bundle!  Great way to save!  Check it out at

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Thanks for being here today!  I appreciate your interest!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Joy Clair Designs, 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.