Butterfly Cage
Butterfly Cage

Other Products: Versafine onyx, clear embossing powder, scissors/paper trimmer, 5 x 7” card blank, water spritz, hot glue gun, light pink/blue alcohol pen
For more tips on creating with the Cascading Petals Collection watch the tutorial at https://youtu.be/DqhvfrsTI00.
To see how to shape the peony, watch the video at https://youtu.be/L9_MLkvpGPQ.
For more tips on creating with the Wild Rose Collection watch the tutorial at https://youtu.be/2ALPhFnT-qI.
For more tips on creating with the Butterfly Dreams collection, watch the tutorial at https://youtu.be/uCKKJfAQFHA.
Instructions: Stamp all the flowers onto Flower Shaping Paper, the pink Small Wild Roses are stamped in Archival Red Carnation and colored in Rose Madder and edged in Plum. The small Sunflowers are stamped in Jet Black and colored in the center with Vivid Chartreuse, the petals Sky Blue and edged in Manganese Blue. The Small Sweet Peony is stamped in Manganese Blue and colored in Sky Blue and edged with Manganese Blue. Stamp the Large Wild Rose and Leafy Accents in Leaf Green and color in Vivid Chartreuse, Leaf Green and edge in Library Green. Die-cut with matching dies and add to the 3D Shaping Molds, spritz with water, and run through the die-cutting machine. Cup the centers with the shaping tool, add adhere petals with a glue gun. Add dries clear and prills to the centers. The Small Sweet Peony has white stamens from the Bridal Bouquet and they have been colored with Sunflower Archival.
Stamp the butterflies and ladybug in versafine onyx and clear heat emboss. Color with Zig markers, place a small amount of color from your pen and dilute with spritz water to get very pastel colors, and apply color with a fine brush. Color the ladybug in Red Zig marker without diluting, when dry add 3D Lacquer and black stamens. Color the stamen cords in Archival coordinating colors or with alcohol pens.
Die-cut 3 or 4 white Decorative Cage and adhere together. Die-cut the Regal Corner Accent and the top of the Lacy Diamond in white. Die-cut the sentiment from the Wild Rose paper pad with Arrows and Banners Die and edge in Rose Madder.
The designer paper layers are from the following collections Tender Moments, Wild Rose, Sweet Peony and Cascading Petals. The blue Tender Moments has not been distressed in any way and is adhered directly to the card blank. Each other layer has been distressed/folded and adhered with dots to add dimension. The layers are randomly sized and torn. Roughly cut a piece from Sweet peony and mount with dimension strip behind the cage. Leave space to tuck in your leaves, butterflies, and ladybug. Using a glue gun to adhere the rest of the embellishments.
Inside the card, line with Wild Rose paper edged in Rose Madder. Mat and layer 1 1/2” white rounded square, stamped in Pink Peony ‘I Miss You’, edged in Rose Madder, adhere with DDOTS onto 1 3/4” rounded square in Cascading Petals matching designer paper.