Rainbow Butterfly

Good morning! The goal of this clean and simple card was to focus on this dazzling butterfly from"Hope is Faith". Have you bought your set yet? Throughout the month of February, $2.00 from every sale of the Hope is Faith stamp set will be donated to the Red Cross to help with the work they are doing to help the people in Haiti, so there are a few days left to get this beautiful set and help their cause! Card base is Pure Luxury White with the bottom corners rounded with a punch. I embossed a curvy panel with the Labels Eight, choosing this shape to frame both image and greeting and emulate the beautiful curves of the butterfly wings. (originally I intended to leave the card flat (just didn't want to you think I was to lazy to emboss!) but I think without may have been a better design, though, you'll see in a minute. I colored the image in a rainbow pattern with Copics, the rainbow a reminder to us that God keeps his promises, and then covered the entire butterfly with Versamark and shimmery embossing powder to make the whole surface sparkle. I cut it out, bent the wings and popped it up. Wish you could see the shimmer in real life! (click for closeup)

Now THIS card is my 7 year old son's who wanted to CASE my card after he saw me coloring my butterfly. He colored and cut it out himself and LOVED doing the glitter part and using the heat gun! See how much more dramatic the butterfly is without the embossed frame? (IMO) Now of course you'll notice a HUGE shadow under the butterfly like it is not attached but hovering. Well, I was so proud of him, he engineered this terrific pop-up all by himself by folding up two strips of paper at a couple different angles to have it standing out about two inches from the card without drooping, very cool! It won't flatten to fit in an envelope, but that's okay, hand delivered cards when you can are best, right? Thanks for visiting and letting us share today!

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