As I was going through my designer series papers and other things in my stamping supplies, I found these butterflies and checked to see if they were still current and available. They are! I had forgotten about them! After finding them, I decided I needed to make a card with them and this Beautiful Bokeh Butterfly Birthday Card is what I came up with. It’s really a pretty simple card and I could have made it even more simple by not coloring the butterflies.
The card base I chose is Fresh Freesia cardstock with a layer of a Fresh Freesia shade of the Beautiful Bokeh 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper. This paper is available in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog until May 5th.
I chose two butterflies in the Paper Butterfly Accents to use on the card. There are different images of butterflies to choose from in the package. As I said, I could have left them white and they still would look pretty on the card. What I decided to do was color them with the Blending Brushes and ink pads. I chose Bubble Bath ink and Berry Burst ink, two colors that I thought would coordinate with the Fresh Freesia and still look “sort of” monochromatic on this card. I tried to apply the Bubble Bath ink to the center of each butterfly and Berry Burst ink around the edges of the butterflies. Make sure you know which way you want your butterflies to face before you color them. And there are many ways you can color these Paper Butterfly Accents.
The greeting is in the Poised Peony Stamp Set and is stamped in Fresh Freesia ink on Basic White. It was diecut with one of the circle dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies. These are simply some of the most useful dies, in my opinion. I often look at other dies and I often come back to these for something basic and the right size. Thankfully, they are carrying over into the new catalog.
Even with the colored butterflies and the greeting, the card still needed something (before I added the bling!). I added a piece of white ribbon looped behind the greeting. This ribbon is part of the Petal Pink and White 1/4″ Diagonal Trim Combo Pack. I have used this combo pack a lot. The ribbons are a good size for lots of projects. The greeting is popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. It would be nice to pop up the butterflies but it would be difficult to not see the Dimensional behind the butterfly unless you can hide it behind a greeting or something. You could also not put glue on the butterfly wings and then lift up the wings a little bit to give them some movement.
For some sparkle, I added several Purple Adhesive-Backed Sequins that were available as a free product during Sale-A-Bration in January and February. Even though the name of the sequins is “Purple”, these sequins are three different shades plus white. And as it turns out, the colors of the sequins are the same colors that I used on my card…Fresh Freesia, Bubble Bath, and Berry Burst! If I’d seen that at the beginning of making my card I wouldn’t have had to think about colors!
