Mixed Media Butterflies

Hello!  This week at Topflight Stamps we are focusing on Mixed Media.  For my card, I lightly spritzed water on a piece of watercolor paper. Then on a silicone mat, I smushed some Lavinia Graphite Dye Ink and also spritzed it lightly with water.  I placed the watercolor paper onto the ink and picked it up, dabbed it in a different place, lifted it, etc.  Once dry, I laid the Lavinia Laurel stencil over it and added grit paste.  When that dried, I used my fingertip to smooth on some gold paste.  On some white cardstock, I stamped a butterfly twice from the AALL & Create Delicate Wings set, fussy cut and layered on to the base. It looked a little bare at that point, so I opened the Creative Expressions French Fabric Tags stamp set and stamped two little tags.  After sponging both of them with a light brown ink, they were added as a layer in front of the butterflies. Finally, a few purple punched flowers dotted with Hunkydory Pearls topped it off.

Hope you have a beautiful week! ~ Colleen

Supplies Used From Topflight Stamps Store:

AALL & Create Delicate Wings

Creative Expressions French Fabric Tags

Lavinia Laurel Stencil

Lavinia Graphite Dye Ink

Hunkydory Pearls

Topflight, Visible Image and Indigoblu Anniversary Card

Welcome to the Topflight Stamps blog! It's Jenny here with a subtle sparkly card I created for an anniversary using heat embossing and stencilling with glitter paste. You can customize the sentiment to create this card for all sorts of occasions such as a wedding, engagement, birth, birthday - it's really versatile. 

Today I'm showcasing Visible Image's Cosmic Skies stencil and Indigo Blu's Big Butterfly stamp.  

To create my card, I die cut a piece of light grey cardstock with a stitched rectangle die.  I then adhered this to a craft mat with masking tape and laid the stencil over the top and added a layer of Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Moonstone, then set aside to dry. 

I stamped the butterfly onto thick vellum using Versamark Ink and heat embossed it with WOW! Vintage Romance embossing powder (a subtle pink glitter powder).  I then fussy cut it out, trimming off the antennae.  

When the grey panel was dry, I adhered it to a white card base using fun foam, and adhered the butterfly on top using glossy accents. I bent some scrap wire into antennae and adhered them  behind the head of the butterfly.   Finally, the sentiment was created using my Dymo label maker.

That's it! Be sure to visit my blog to see a detailed list of supplies and feel free to ask me any questions here. 

Have a great week!