What is it with purple and butterflies?!

One color card making - Wilted Violet

 Todays post were two fairly quick cards from the other day, both made as a result of a Live Craft along with Sam Calcott from Mixed Up Craft. She was making one colored cards, and since I came a bit late into the live, I decided I wouldn't craft along with her. So I ended up pulling out a new frame die I had just received, and started making a shaker card with it, It has 5 compartments in it that just screams out shaker card to me😂! So, while others were making their versions of one colored cards, I stuck to making my shaker. I die cut my frame in foam and glued it on the background, before filling four compartments with different colored glass jewels and the largest compartment with tiny butterflies. I then closed it up with acetate and glued on the frame that I had die cut in purple. Was a bit irritated when I saw that the foam die cut I had used was a bit larger than the card stock die cut, as the foam had stretched a bit during the die cutting process. Oh well, I guess I will have to live with it. Lastly I stamped a sentiment on some purple card stock, die cut some butterflies in a lighter purple, stuck them on vellum and decorated with Nuvo Drops.

Shaker card using two different purple cards stocks.

Afterwards however, I decided to make my version of a one colored card.
I chose the distress oxide ink color wilted violet, and varied the pressure of my ink blending to create different shades of purple. I had a ribbon that was approximately the same purple which I added, along with two butterflies that I had die cut out of ink blended card stock. These were glued on top of vellum that had a nice shimmer. I stamped my sentiment on white, also using the same distress oxide Wilted Violet ink. Last but not least, I finished the card off with some Nuvo Drops, which did not work as they usually do, as they didn't collapse on themselves and dried in peaks instead😢.

All in all I am quite pleased with both my purple butterfly cards🦋💜!

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Todays card is a card inspired by Natasha Foote and her tutorial on the Ripped Paper Tutorial:

It is a very easy way yo make a card that only requires some ripped paper, inks, some sort of blending instrument and a stamp or two. And of course and idea of what you want your card to look like😉!

My card started out with the green grassy ground and the hills in the background and then when I messed up a bit on the sky...I tried to put in some sunlight that didn't work out at all, and I ended up having to go fairly heavy handed with the blue on top to cover up my mistake. Then when I went looking for a stamp to put in the foreground, I realized that I didn't have any trees in my collection. So I kept searching for an other alternative, and found the umbrella holding woman. Seeing that my sky looked like there was a storm coming, I changed my original idea, stamped the woman out to the side, colored her with Copic Markers, before I went back in with some more blue and added rain-like stripes to my sky, and voila, I had a story😂! I knew what kind of text I wanted to have on the side, but also knew that I didn't have a stamp that said what I wanted, so I went with "There will always be sun after rain", thinking that it would fit as well.

To finish off the card I used the same blue ink (Distress Oxide - Faded Jeans) and created a narrow border on the edges of the card base, before gluing my topper panel onto it. I also added some Nuvo Crystal Drops in Midnight Blue around the stamped sentiment.