EASY LAYERED BUTTERFLY CARD

LAYERED BUTTERFLY CARD

This is a simple layering technique that doesn't involve complicated cutting.

Die cut the number of layers you want  from background card - three seems to work well, then chose a stamp large enough to cover them all.  (I've used a Kaiser butterfly)

Stack them up, centring each on the one below and stamp the stamp over all layers.  (You might need to put a bit of extra pressure on the outer edges as they will be a bit lower than the middle)

Colour in the image if you want to.  I've used Tombows( but haven't bothered with shading and blending - this is almost like a guilty admission nowdays but its OK you can just colour in without getting too fancy about it).  I've added some highlights with a gold glitter gel pen.

You don't have to add borders but I think it looks best if you do (and it helps hide edges if you don't get your layers super straight when assembling).  If you have appropriate dies cut the mats to fit.  If you don't, just do what I did, and stick the butterfly layers to the matting (purple) card and cut around with scissors leaving a small border.

Now stick the layers together with foam tape underneath so that each layer is raised about the one below, stick the whole thing to a background card, or scrapbook page or whatever you want to use if for, and you're done.

GOLD EMBOSSED IMAGE COLOURED WITH TOMBOW PENS

EMBOSSED AND COLOURED IMAGE

Back in the day.............and I'm talking 20+ years ago, this is how we did our stamping for greeting cards.

Emboss the outline with gold and reach for the marker pens!

It still looks nice, and is ironically less "old hat" today than it was five years ago.

I've used Tombows and a blender pen for the colouring, and cut the lovely design (from Paper Roses) in half to fit over the aperture, mounting the top on some foam tape to add dimension.

A final "retro" touch is the gold outline sticker that I've carefully stretched around the edge of the oval cut out..  This is a little reminder to myself that no matter how exciting new techniques are sometimes the "oldies but goodies"are worth dusting off too.