Butterflyin' LPS Butterflies & Blooms

Simplest card I've made in ages. It was really refreshing to to make something that came together so quickly. I blame it on that cute butterfly from LPS: Butterflies & Blossoms And of course that flourish that I lurve too much.

The card is a size I don't normally make but enjoyed a lot: 4 and 2/8 inches squared. Great size to cut from 12x12 cardstock with very little waste. :O)

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Card supplies:

Stamps: Butterflies & Blossoms & Flourished Dove from Little Paper Shop

Paper:
--Very Vanilla Textured, & Basic Black cardstock from Stampin' Up!
--Patterned text Paper from 7Gypsies painted with a gesso wash (tutorial here)
--Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste:Flora Bella patterned paper

Embellishments: Seed beads stuck on with Crystal Lacquer, Self-adhesive gems.

How to:

1. Cut cardstock 4 2/8 inches by 8 1/2 inches fold in half to make 4 2/8 inch square card.
2. Punch a mat from Basic Black cardstock (Jumbo Giga Scallop circle punch). Add faux stitches around the scallop with a white pencil crayon.
   
3. Punch Scallop of gesso-ed patterned paper (Stampin' Up! punch)
4. Draw antennae on the gesso scallop (the gesso lets you emboss using Stampin' Write marker) (SU)
   
5. Stamp LPS flourish on a strip (4 2/8" wide) of Cosmo Cricket Fleuriste:Flora Bella patterned paper Cut along scallop
6. Stamp Butterfly onto Fleuriste:Flora Bella paper in black craft ink & cut it out.
7. Stick seed beads onto the butterfly with Crystal Lacquer for the body & self-adhesive gems for the head. (I like to use the tip of a paper piercer to line the beads up after I stick 'em on the glue. They're a really affordable way to add bling.)
   
8. Stick it all together. Add a strip of SU black grosgrain ribbon with a bow tied onto it.
9. Stick gems onto the flourish.
   

This is the body from the large butterfly stuck on the little butterflies wings. Sounds creepy, but it was fun to mix & match 'em so there were more beads (way sparklier IRL) :O)

Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy day!

The curvy basket that goes with this card was in yesterday's post: