Well what a lovely start to June! At our Frampton class we had the doors open as it was so warm and it was lovely to hear the sounds of the birds whilst we crafted. It was also nice to go home in the tail-end of the sunlight.
For this months projects we tried out a new technique of layered stamping with the
Watercolor Wings stamp set, created a neutral birthday card suitable for a male of all ages and a lovely box suitable for a small bottle of perfume etc. I did find inspiration for these cards on Pinterest so can't take the credit for their design!
So here is the beautiful butterfly card made with the
Watercolor Wings stamp set. I have been looking forward to using this set as it is so effective. The colours used were Wisteria Wonder, Soft Sky and Crumb Cake. The technique of stamping off was also used to tone down the colours too. The background was stamped using
Gorgeous Grunge and the little butterfly was taken from the
Garden In Bloom set and the greeting from
Cottage Greetings. There are in fact two smaller butterflies cut from Velum cardstock on top of the main butterfly but this is now easy to see in the photograph. The coordinating Bold Butterfly framelits were used to cut out the butterflies.
The general birthday card was made using just another three colours - Calypso Coral, Pool Party and Basic Grey. The 2 stamp sets used were
Gorgeous Grunge and
Crazy About You. The littles stars were punched out from sliver Glimmer paper using the Confetti Stars Border punch. The blank space at the top of the card is suitable to put the age of the recipient, perhaps using the Large Numbers framelits.
Finally our 3D project was a small box suitable for a small bottle. The tricky part of the design was trying to score and fold the angles to make the box taper towards the top but everyone was pleased with their finished result. The three main colours used were Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo and Basic Black. The greeting was taken from
Circle of Spring stamp set and the flowers were punched out using the Blosson punch.
