• Category Archives Bugs/Butterflies/Dragonflies/Ladybugs/Bees
  • Many Butterflies

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    What an interesting color challenge (CC307) at Splitcoast! I wasn’t sure I’d like these colors, but they’re growing on me. I wanted to use a purple c/s, but I don’t have eggplant, so I used the black and layered it w/ lavender. I used the eggplant, suede, red and a little green (for some reason I had it in my head that artichoke was one of the colors) for the colors in my butterflies.

    All images are Our Daily Bread designs. For my bg, I stamped the lg butterfly bg image w/ the white chalk ink and did what I think is close to the Black Magic tech. I actually learned this tech around 1999 or 2000 in a class I took from Helene Metievier (from Magenta Rubber Stamps). I don’t think it had a name then and Helene used pigment ink, but the chalk works just fine and it dries much faster.

    After I stamped the bg, I used the Prismacolor pencils to color over the solid white images. It may look like I made a lot of layers of this bg, but it was actually only one 5.25 x 4 pc. I cut it into 2 frames w/ lavender layers in between. On both of the layers, I made a faux layer by drawing a frame w/ a white marker.

    The large butterfly was stamped on white w/ black ink, colored w/ the Prismas and die cut using the matching ODBD butterfly die. The sentiment was stamped on the lavender and die cut w/ a Spellbinders diamond shape. A few curled strips were added for the butterfly tail.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

    Supplies:
    stamps: ODBD – Lg Butterfly Bg, Single Butterfly, Faith, Brocade Borders
    paper: black, lavender
    ink: Ancient Page coal, VersaMagic cloud white chalk
    accessories: Prismacolor pencils, Spellbinders classic diamond die, white Permapaque marker

     


  • White Ivory Butterflies

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Congrats to Tracy, today’s Featured Stamper at Splitcoast.  I chose Vintage Flowers to case. I kept the layout, pearls & ribbon, but changed the colors, changed the flowers to butterflies and stamped my bg instead of using dp.

    All images are Our Daily Bread designs. For the bg, I stamped the lg butterfly bg w/ soft vanilla ink. On the smaller white piece, I used the matching butterfly embossing plate. The lg butterfly was stamped and die cut using the matching die. The smaller butterflies were done with an MS butterfly multi punch. For the sentiment, I used the gold ochre marker to ink the stamp and die cut it using the Spellbinders Labels 8.

    All layers have an ivory linen backing. I added some ribbon and small pearls to finish the 5.5 x 4.25 card.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

     

    Supplies:
    stamps: ODBD – Single Butterfly, Lg Butterfly Bg, Faith
    paper: white, ivory linen
    ink: Memories soft vanilla
    accessories: Tombow gold ochre marker, ODBD butterfly die & butterfly embossing plate, Spellbinders labels 8, moire ribbon, pearls


  • ODBD Jan Release Blog Hop!

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    Happy New Year! Welcome to the January Our Daily Bread designs Release “Taking a Leap of Faith” Blog Hop!

    If you arrived here from the ODBD Blog then you are in the right place! If not you should go to the Our Daily Bread designs Blog to start from the beginning so you don’t miss anything! The Hop will run from 8am Eastern Jan. 1 to 8pm Jan 2. The winners will be announced on the ODBD Blog on Jan. 3. There will be 5 prizes. Kelley has very generously offered to give five prizes of YOUR CHOICE of one set!!! The prizes are hidden on various blogs along the hop, so it is important that you visit and comment on each one!

    The hardest part of my card was taking a picture of it, lol. With all the metallic/mirror finish card stock and glittery bling, my camera really wigged out on most of the pics.  I don’t usually do a lot of glittery metallics, but New Year’s is a perfect time to bring on the bling! And it was a lot fun, as well. All of the glittery fronds, the ribbon and even the houndstooth mirror card stock came from the Christmas clearance isles at Michael’s. The silver card stock for the butterfly and sentiment is a recycled/repurposed foil lid from a container. I stamped them with Stazon and on the butterfly, added a touch of color with some Sharpies. It was cut with the matching butterfly die available only at ODBD.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    On the sentiment, I used a Spellbinders circle die and my brand new Grand Calibur. What a wonderful machine! I added the fronds and a bow then arranged the layers on a lavender 5.5 x 4.25 card.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    From here, hop on over to Angie’s Blog. I know she’ll have something wonderful for you! Thanks for stopping by and have a Blessed and Prosperous New Year!

     

     

    Supplies:
    stamps: ODBD – Faith, Single Butterly
    paper: lavender, mirror finish houndstooth & purple (Michael’s $ bin)
    ink: Stazon black
    accessories: ODBD Butterfly die, Spellbinders circle die, Grand Calibur machine, ribbon & glitter fronds (also from Michael’s), small butterfly punch (All Night Media), Sharpies