Monday, August 20, 2012

Butterflies...

Hello my bloggy friends! Today I made a card using my new Silhouette machine. I'm still learning and playing around with it. For my super simple card today I welded butterflies into rectangle using the Silhouette Studio Software. I wanted the negative of the butterflies to use as a background panel. I have lots of pretty butterflies for use on other things now. :) I cut it out with white cardstock so I could ink it up however I wanted. I inked the panel with worn lipstick distress ink using THIS tool. 
I used a paintbrush to flick perfect pearls and water onto the butterfly panel. I white heat embossed the Friend Definition background stamp from Hero Arts and inked it up with spun sugar distress ink. To finish, I mounted the butterfly panel with pop dots over top for dimension and shadow. I know this is REALLY simple, but I liked it so much I just couldn't cover it up! 

♥ Nikki ♥


15 comments:

  1. pink yummyness! I almost want to eat it. :)

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  2. Love the use of negative here. Very pretty card. You will love your new Silhouette

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  3. Hope you had lots of fun with your new toy!! Your card is purty!!!

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  4. Love the look. Was it just me or did others see the illusion? I thought this was a card made using the butterflies that we cut out. . .not the negative image. way cool! Great idea. TFS

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  5. OK, darn iPad! "We" didn't cut the butterflies out. Sorry about trying to take some of the credit! LOL

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  6. Very pretty! I love the shadow effect and the perfect pearls spattered. Great job!
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  7. Love your beautiful pink card! Doesn't the silhouette cut so nicely?


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  8. What a pretty design, Nikki! The splattered paint spots look great with the text bg.

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  9. BEAUTIFUL


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  10. WOW your card is BEAUTIFUL Nikki!I LOVE the way you cut the butterflies out,AWESOME my friend!!!:)

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  11. Nikki ~ OH my this is simply GORGEOUS! LOVE the whole concept of the negative panel idea! Of course your embossing is just PERFETION! Just LOVE it!

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  12. Really pretty card!! Love the embossing and the speckles on the background

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  13. beautiful! I love butterflies the most!!

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  14. LOVE it - definitely "pretty in pink" :)

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  15. WOW! This is sooo 3D. I almost thought it was the Butterflies raised on top of the paper. I hope to have enough saved up to get my Cameo by my birthday(9/27). Great job on this card. I love me some butterflies. Smooches...

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