Please Welcome our Spring/Summer Design Team!!!

Hey, everyone!!! I hope you're all enjoying some nice Spring weather by now! My kids were on vacation this week so we did some fun day trips. We went to see my cousin's new baby, spent a beautiful day at the zoo, went to Legoland, had a play date and today we're going to Monster Jam which was Andrew's birthday present earlier in April. That should be a lot of fun! I'm looking forward to getting the patio furniture out on the deck soon and enjoying the 60's while I can. ;)

I'm here to introduce the newest Design Team members for the next term, May through August. As always, we had lots of talented applicants and it's so tough to narrow them down to just five especially from over fifty applicants this time! Please don't be discouraged if you applied and didn't "make it". I always pick new DT members to be fair to both newbies and experienced card makers. I have been so lucky to have such an amazing team full of talented girls. I'm looking forward to having our new members join us and I'm sure it'll be another fabulous term!

So here we goooooo... (again! hehe)

First up, all the way from Sweden is Karin Akesdotter. Karin has just got a way with cards. I've been a fan of her work for a while. She is currently on the MFT Design Team as well as the Lawnscaping Challenge blog. Speaking of Lawn Fawn... the new release is May 19th!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO!

Next up is Kimberly Rendino. I had the pleasure of meeting Kim at CHA and we kind of buddied up so we spent some time together there which was really fun. Kim is on the Honey Bee Stamps Design Team as well as Newton's Nook and also just got picked up by CAS-ual Fridays. Looks like she's going to be a busy girl. ;)

We're adding some more international flair with Francesca (Franci for short) from Italy. She's on the Stamping Smiles Designs Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge Social Media DT. She's wonderful at coloring with a light touch and has such a soft and sweet style I fell in love with.

Next on the agenda is Lorraine Marasigan, who I followed on IG for a while. Not only does she like to craft, she likes to cook and bake so I often drool over her posts. Mmmm. HA!!! Lorraine has been on the Avery Elle Challenge team as well as the Mama Elephant DT.

Finally, we have Megan Bodenhausen joining us. Let's face it, I want to call her Boden like Chief from Chicago Fire. Oh boy, now I'm distracted by thoughts of Severide. WOO WOO! haha Megan is a lovely scrapbooker who also does Project Life and enjoys creating cards, too!

So those are the five lovely ladies joining us for this term and I hope you enjoy their creations! I'm so excited to have each of you and hope you enjoy being with us. Welcome to the team!!! <3

Vanessa

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....

Hello, hello! Norine here from The Velvet Lemon blog . It's been a week for introductions hasn't it, but let me just say how delighted I am to have been invited to join such a talented group of paper crafters, and to contribute here at Butterfly Reflections Ink! Today I'm sharing with you, some cards I made by working backwards. What do I mean, you wonder? Well, it's a technique I sometimes enjoy doing, where you "smoosh" your water based ink pads on a craft mat, mist the colors with water and then drag your water color paper through it to create a pretty mess of color. For today's cards, I wanted a blend of blues and greens (always a crowd pleaser) and yellows/pinks. You will always be happier with the results when you keep the green/blues from overlapping with the yellow/pinks, because that just produces an unappealing mud color. I used a variety of Tim Holtz Distress Inks for this project, but any water based inks w

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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