Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Heartfelt Creations - Butterfly Bella Rose

For my Heartfelt Creations card today, I decided to feature the butterfly from Bella Rose House. The insect stamps from this set are designed to go with the new Fanciful Flights Shapeabilities die set from Spellbinders.


I created the swirls for the base of my embellishment cluster by stamping Bella Rose Leaves and cutting it out using the coordinating die from the Bella Rose die set. Then, I stamped the rose branch from Classic Bella Rose and cut it out using the coordinating die from the same set, along with a few vellum branches. I stamped a couple of roses, coloured them, then layered everything into a lovely little corsage like cluster.


I stamped the swirly image from Classic Bella Rose on my vellum using Stazon Ink. Using a stylus, I embossed the image from the wrong side and coloured it with copic markers. I love the frame effect it creates for my butterfly.


The pearls are a lovely touch with a very practical purpose; they hide the adhesive I used to attach the vellum! I used the brightest copic colours from my butterfly to colour the back of my vellum panel and this is important because the colours become very muted through the embossed vellum. I'm thinking this technique is called debossing vellum, but I could be wrong. After I coloured my butterfly, I covered it with stardust stickles, and this is slightly visible in all the photos. I used chose my colours from my designer paper to achieve an overall coordinated look, and I love the way these colours look as I clustered my copics together;


G16, G20, G21, G24
B93, B95, B99
YR14, YR20, YR24
E57, E59

There are many more beautiful samples again this week on the Heartfelt Creations blog and I would invite you to pop in there for some beautiful inspiration!

stamps; bella rose house, bella rose leaves, classic bella rose (heartfelt creations)
paper; gabrielle (bo bunny), canvas white, lagoon (bazzill), vellum (paper accents)
ink; timber brown stazon (tsukineko), frayed burlap distress ink (ranger)
accessories; bella rose die set (heartfelt creations), labels 20, fanciful flights shapeabilities (spellbinders), nylon ribbon, border punch (martha stewart), pearls (K&Co), stardust stickles (ranger)

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26 comments:

Stamping Becky said...

Wow! You have so many amazing details on this card, Loretta! Your Copic colouring work is just beautiful! The sparkly butterfly is gorgeous! I love the zig zag stitching and the the floral die cut on the bg. Bravo!!!

marsha said...

This is just stunning Loretta! I love your colors, that beautiful rose and the butterfly is amazing!
Hugs,
Marsha

Katy said...

Love these papers I have them! Love the butterflies and the die cuts! Thanks for joining us at Anything Goes :)

xxx

Brenda Brown said...

This is beautiful Loretta, I just love the colours you have used and that's a fabulous butterfly.
Thanks for joining in our 2B's challenge at MAWTT we are so pleased you have shared this with us.
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Click the give-away picture in the sidebar.
luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

craftieodmae said...

Now that's gorgeous! All the detailing and cut out! Breathtaking for sure!

Lisa Lynne said...

Gorgeous!!!! I love the color combination - really stunning.

Tamara Morton said...

Wonderful card I love your colour scheme, thank you for showing what colours you used.. Thank you for joining in our Bingo Challenge at Anything goes

Invitation to our Birthday celebrations.
Tuesday 31st May Anything goes challenge blog! will be 1 year old and to celebrate we are holding a blog hop with candy and prizes to be won. Hope you can come and join us
Hugs
Tamara

Unknown said...

Loretta, this card is stunning. I Love all the details in card. That paper is gorgoeous. The coloring on your butterfly is beautiful. The stamping/embossing on the vellum is wonderful. This is truly a piece of art. Thanks for the inspiration. I can't wait to see your next posting.

Gail said...

Ditto to everything everyone else has said. I've never tried the stylus and embossing but I love the look. TFS!

MaryB said...

Absolutely stunning. Your coloring is just awesome.

Thank you for joining us at Craft Us Crazy.

TesaB said...

Ohhhh, love this card. So beautiful with the lovely colors and all the details!!!!

Hannah Clark said...

Oh, this is just gorgeous! I really love the way you've coloured that butterfly! The flourishes are fantastic too! Thanks for joining us at Penny's!

Lisa Jane said...

wow what a stunning card - beautiful colours
Thanks for joining us at MAWTT this week
Lisa x

Dawn said...

Beautiful card! Love the colour combo! Thank you for sharing with us aat MY Grafico this month!
Good Luck
Hugs
Dawn xxx

Lisa Somerville said...

So pretty, love the coloring on the butterfly!

Tammy E. said...

Really pretty -- soft and soothing.

Donna said...

Gorgeous card! Love your color combination and the embellishments. Thanks for joining us at Delightful Challenges.

CLaire said...

Your card stood out on Make it Monday so had to pop and have a look, it is very pretty, I am going to have to brush up on my colouring, yours is just perfect
Claire

Teresa - My Crafty Heart said...

Wow what a beautiful card! Love the details and your colouring is superb! Thanks for joining us at Whoopis Daisy this week and good luck, Hugs, Teresa x

Antoinette said...

Wow, this is amazing colouring!! Absolutly stunning!!

Thank you for joining us at the ‘Anything Goes’ Challenge and I hope you will join us for our next challenge on 31st May for our 1st year Birthday blog hop with loads of goodies to give away!! Hugs Annie xXx

Mari said...

Gorgeous colors! I love every bit about it - but that butterfly is super stunning!

Conniecrafter said...

that is so Lovely, pretty design, terrific coloring of the butterfly and love your vellum piece behind it

Kerrie said...

Stunning card, with lovely detail.

Thanks for sharing your creation with Make It Monday.
Don't forget......... if you leave a comment on another entry, mention that you saw their card on "Make It Monday" for a chance at second prize. The more entries you comment on the more chance you have of winning second prize.

Unknown said...

HI there - this is just stunning. I LOVE that debossed velum & simply MUST try it! Love seeing new things I've never come across before, but doesn't happen all that often nowadays. The whole card is just beautiful & the butterfly itself is to die for! Thanks for sharing at Anything Goes with a fabulous & unusual take on the bingo board.
Deb.x

Sharron aka Sharrahug said...

You did a FABulous job on your beautiful butterfly card. It's absolutely gorgeous. Love the Copic colored butterfly.
Thanks so much for joining us in our “use your FAVorite Embellishment(s) and/or Something New” challenge at Craft Us Crazy and hope you will join us again!
Huggies ~
Sharron♥

Dawn said...

Congrat's on being one of our May winners at My Grafico!
Hugs
Dawn xxx

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