Butterfly Window Screen Card

I made this card following the video for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday challenge to make a window screen card.

I wanted to do something a little different, so I made my window using 4 wing tip to wing tip butterfly die cuts.  Since the butterfly design wasn't obvious, I used a different die from the same set (Beautiful Butterflies die collection) and alternated it upright and upside down several times to make the die cut panel in my patterned paper.

I stamped some flowers from the Daydreamer stamp set in complementary colours around the frame, cut my parchment screen and layered them.

At this point I realized I didn't have room for a sentiment and my frame was quite large, so I took two of the die cut butterflies I'd used to help space the frame cuts and glued them together.  I added a sentiment - also from Daydreamer - and glued the butterflies to the card.  I finished it off by adding 3 mini flowers.  They're officially for nail art, but I thought they'd word well as rhinestone substitutes.

Window of Opportunity Challenge: Life is Better

After several days of not having time to card craft, Saturday I managed 3 cards.  The two butterfly ones I've already posted and didn't take much time at all to make.  This last card was time consuming but I'm very happy with how it turned out.  I made this for JustRite's Window of Opportunity challenge.  The idea is to have a window from one layer of your card to the next, that draws your attention as you open the card.

I had the idea that I wanted more than one window and so started with a piece of cream cardstock and scored 2 lines rather than one center line.

Starting on the inside, I stamped my frame and the two sentiments (one fudged a bit so I evened it out with a marker).  Then, using my light table I carefully traced my window on the two flaps, so only parts of the sentiment would show up on each page.  I then cut the windows out with a craft knife.

Once the windows were cut I stamped the frames around them so they'd be properly centered.

I thought the card looked too plain so I started adding embellishments.  For the front I started with the little accent stamps in the corner and the ribbon, then I added the Spellbinders vine and punched ivy leaves.  The tiny butterflies were punched out of vellum and coloured in pink marker on the back.  This made the wings curl up (which I wasn't expecting but worked out great).  I added a dot of glitter glue in the center of each.

I thought the middle panel needed some colour so after stamping the corner accents I added green to the frame.  In retrospect the marker I used had too thick a head to keep the detail in the stamp, so I should have used pencil crayons for that.  I added some larger punched butterflies to this page, punched out of a thin pink paper.

I decided the last panel was fine with the frame alone.  All of the stamps are from JustRite.  They're stamped with increasingly darker inks as you open the card (so light pink on the front and red inside).

Flower Flourish Window Card

I think this is the best card I've ever made.  At the least, it's one of my favourites (and so will be staying with me for now).  And I made it out of a mistake.

This was supposed to be a medallion card.  I'd cut out Spellbinders Medallion 4, only I did it wrong (I made this a few weeks back and can't remember what went wrong with it).  In order to not waste the cardstock I cut out the shape entirely, not sure how I'd use this large window card.

Then I got some ideas.  I ran through some other dies and got the idea for this card.  With the dies still on I inked the flower with white ink and the leaves and flourishes with metallic green ink.

I cut a strip of parchment paper and stamped Thank you! and put a butterfly to cover the tape spot (I used vellum tape, which was supposed to be invisible but wasn't.  I'd wanted the butterfly at the top of strip not the bottom). 

Voila:

Supplies:
Cardstock: Recollections, parchment paper
Stamp: Stampendous - Proud Peacock
Spellbinders Dies: Medallion 4, Aster Flower Toppers, Jewel Flowers and Flourishes
Ink: Versa Magic white cloud, Encore ultimate metallic green
Jolee rhinestone