A Really Cool Birthday Card!

Hi everyone, Ashley here and I'm super happy to be back on the Butterfly Reflections Ink blog today! I find that, while sometimes I make cards just because I have an idea and want to have fun, more often I am making a card with a specific recipient and event in mind, and I try to tailor the card to that person's taste. I like both types of cardmaking, and having to think of ways to make cards for specific likes or interests is usually a fun challenge!

I made this birthday card for my sister-in-law. I know that she has loved the yeti and narwhal stamps whenever I've used them in the past, so I wanted to incorporate them into her card. I was also inspired by her love of Hawaii and warm weather, so I tried to make the scene look like it could be Hawaii.

The background is a mixture of cardstock and ink-blended pieces, as follows:

WATER: Distress oxide ink in Chipped Sapphire, Blueprint Sketch and Peacock Feathers, blended onto watercolour paper and splattered with water and Lawn Fawn Liquid Stardust; cut with Lawn Fawn Ocean Wave border die

SAND: Lawn Fawn Gold Rush cardstock cut with Lawn Fawn Simple Stitched Hillside border die

MOUNTAINS: Jewel green cardstock, splattered with green watercolour paint and cut with Mama Elephant Snow Capped Mountain dies

SKY: Distress oxide ink in Scattered Straw blended onto watercolour paper using the My Favorite Things Cloud Stencil and splattered with Lawn Fawn Liquid Stardust

The images were stamped out with Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink and coloured in with Copic markers in a (large!) variety of colours. Stamps sets used were:

Lawn Fawn Yeti or Not
Lawn Fawn Mermaid For You
Lawn Fawn Party Animal
Lawn Fawn Butterfly Kisses
Lawn Fawn Christmas Fishes
Lawn Fawn On The Beach
Lawn Fawn Fintastic Friends

The sentiment was stamped out onto some purple cardstock using Hero Arts White Detail embossing powder, and cut into small strips to adhere to the card. The second part of the sentiment was stamped in purple ink using the Lawn Fawn Big Scripty Words stamp set and cut with the coordinating dies. All of the images and sentiments were adhered to the card using a mixture of liquid glue and foam squares.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Do you prefer creating cards with a specific person in mind, or just creating whatever you feel like? Leave a comment to let us know!

If you'd like to see more fun cards, check out either the Butterfly Reflections Ink Instagram account, or my personal Instagram account (@ashley.young.paper). And, as always, all of the supplies used for this card can be purchased at the amazing Butterfly Reflections Ink store!

Hope you have an amazing day!

Baby Tags featuring the We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool!

Happy Monday! This is Kim Hamilton and I am so very excited to be sharing my first post with you for Butterfly Reflections Ink! This is making my first day back to work after a two-week break a happy one! I am sharing baby gift tags today, one of my friends is expecting and not sure what she is having so I made one of each! I used my We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool for the first time and loved it! I cut my own Tim Holtz watercolor paper to the size of tag I wanted (2 3/4 x 4 1/4) and cut the edges with my trimmer. I stamped my sentiments that are by Lawn Fawn Hello Baby with VersaMark ink and used white embossing powder. For the girl tag I used a mix of Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and Abandoned Coral Distress Inks and for the boy tag I used Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron Distress Inks . I sprayed both tags with some water and dabbed it off. I then stamped my images by My Favorite Things Snuggle Bunnies for the girl and Magical Dragons for th

Painting backwards....

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Altenew’s 4th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 3 + Giveaway

Hey, hey BRI friends! We're hopping today to celebrate the 4th Birthday of Altenew , one of our favorite stamping companies! You should have arrived here from the Altenew blog , and we're glad you're here to share the excitement! There are prizes and inspiration and it's going to be FUN! With you today, is Norine from The Velvet Lemon creating for Butterfly Reflections Ink and I have some projects to share today, that I made using some recently released Altenew products . First up, are these two cards created with the Mega Succulent stamp set . I stamped the image onto water color paper using the MISTI , then turned on the music and sat and colored. I used Faber Castell watercolor pencils so I could more easily control where the color would sit and then painted with a water brush . I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of vellum, heat embossed with clear embossing powder to ensure that the ink wouldn't smudge, then tore the vel

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