Kia Ora Koutou

Spring is coming out for many people in the world and the flowers are starting to bloom and the butterflies are starting to emerge. This birthday card for Heartfelt Creations is inspired by a garden of flowers with hovering butterflies.

Keep scrolling for instructions on how I have made this card.

Products Used:

Floral Butterfly Accents Die, HCD1-7353
Small Floral Butterfly Die, HCD1-7354
Floral Butterfly Accents Cling Stamp Set, HCPC-3952
Small Floral Butterfly Cling Stamp Set, HCPC-3953
Floral Butterfly Paper Collection, HCDP1-2127
Courtyard Elegance Die, HCD1-7283
Album Tags and Accents Die, HCD1-7202
Large Garden Zinnia Die, HCD1-7314
Small Garden Zinnia Die, HCD1-7315
Large Garden Zinnia Cling Stamp Set, HCPC-3923
Small Garden Zinnia Cling Stamp Set, HCPC-3924
Large 3D Zinnia Shaping Mold, HCFB1-491
Small 3D Zinnia Shaping Mold, HCFB1-492
Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper Pack of 50 – White, HCPP1-475
Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit, HCST1-401
Stack and Store Daubers-Pack of 30, HCDA2-450
Luxe Silver Cardstock, HCGP1-493
Rock Candy Stamens-Small, HCS1-459-4
Bright Pearl Stamens-Small, HCS1-458-1
Ranger Archival Ink Pad – Cactus Flower, RACP985
Ranger Archival Ink Pad – Vivid Chartreuse, RACP531
Ranger Archival Ink Pad – Library Green, RACP475
Ranger Archival Ink Pad – Jet Black, RACP468
Ranger Archival Ink Pad – French Ultramarine, RACP607
Crystal Ultrafine Transparent Glitter 1/2 oz., 85-glitter
Rajni Chawla’s Crystal Clear, PGM15015
Designer Dries Clear Adhesive, 159723
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers – 48 Pack, 478594

Other Products:

Iris cardstock, Ranger Archival ink – Violet, Versamagic Pretty Petunia ink, clear gloss gel medium, Bitty Sparkles, Prismacolour pencils,

Instructions:

Cut a piece of Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper 12” x 6”, score at 6” along the long side and fold to create a base card of 6” x 6”. Cut a piece of silver cardstock 6” x 6” and adhere to the front of the card. Cut a piece of purple pattern paper 5 7/8” x 5 7/8” and adhere to the front of the card. Cut a piece of pale purple pattern paper 5 3/4″ x 5 3/4”. Die cut the decorative frame out of silver cardstock using the No. 2 and No. 3 dies from the HCD1-7283 Courtyard Elegance Die set. Using the decorative die as a template die cut the circle from the pale purple paper and then adhere this behind the decorative die. Adhere this to the front of the card with two layers of heavy cardstock.

Stamp the fern and flower images from the HCPC-3952 Floral Butterfly Accents Cling Stamp Set in Vivid Chartreuse ink on Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper. Colour the leaves with Vivid Chartreuse ink and the flowers with French Ultramarine and Buttercup inks. Finish colouring with colour pencils and die cut with the coordinating dies. Add Ultrafine Crystal glitter to images with clear gloss gel medium. Trim and adhere to the centre of the frame.

Stamp the zinnia images from the HCPC-3923 Large Zinnia Cling Stamp set and HCPC-3924 Small Zinnia Cling Stamp set in Violet ink on Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper. Colour the centres with Vivid Chartreuse ink and the petals with Pretty Petunia inks and die cut with the coordinating dies. Colour the edges with Cactus Flower ink and the backs with Pretty Petunia ink and shape using the coordinating molds. Assemble and add Crystal Clear glitter using clear gloss gel. Pierce the centres and insert the purple pearl stamens and green rock candy stamens and add glue to fasten. Once dry trim the threads and adhere to the card as shown.

For the buds, stamp the small flower images from the HCPC-3923 Large Zinnia Cling Stamp set in Library Green and Violet inks. Colour the green images with Vivid Chartreuse ink and the purple images with Vivid Chartreuse and Pretty Petunia inks and die cut with the coordinating die. Colour the back of the green petals with Vivid Chartreuse ink and the purple flowers with Pretty Petunia ink. Colour the edges of the purple flowers with Cactus Flower ink and then shape with the coordinating mold. For the open bud, assemble with two purple petals and one green petal and insert the purple and green stamens. For the closed bud, assemble one purple and one green flower. Add Crystal Clear glitter using clear gloss gel and then adhere around the bigger flowers as shown.

Stamp the leaf images from the HCPC-3923 Large Zinnia Cling Stamp set and HCPC-3924 Small Zinnia Cling Stamp set in Library Green ink on Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper. Colour with Vivid Chartreuse ink and die cut with the coordinating dies. Colour the backs of the leaves with Vivid Chartreuse ink and shape using the coordinating molds. Add Crystal Clear glitter using clear gloss gel and then adhere around the flowers as shown.

Stamp the butterfly images from the HCPC-3952 Floral Butterfly Accents Cling Stamp Set and HCPC-3953 Small Floral Butterfly Cling Stamp Set in Jet Black ink on Iris cardstock. Colour with Zig Clean Colour Brush Markers and die cut with the coordinating dies. Add Ultrafine Crystal glitter using Dried Clear glue on the accents and small clear sparkles. Adhere to the card as shown.

Stamp the birthday sentiment from the HCPC-3843 Special Birthday Sentiments Cling Stamp set in Jet Black ink on the tag in the paper collection. Die cut with the coordinating die from the HCD1-7202 Album Tags & Accents Die set and adhere to the bottom left.

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Patricia