Hi everyone! This was an interesting card to make. I started off wanting a sweet Victorian card. I ended up adding a steampunk element to it. Quite a mixture!The unique material that I've just start using is the paper ribbon. I've used it in pink on this card. It starts out as paper twine (Maya Road). I unroll it and the resulting paper ribbon is about 1 1/2 inches wide. You get a lot on a roll too.
It does take a little patience to get it unrolled but well worth the effort. Its SO pretty. I am working o another card and I want to ink it before I unroll it to see what tie die effects I can get. So stay tuned!
Do you like my butterfly? I used a Frantic Stamper solid Butterfly die to cut the card base, the patterned paper mat and a gold glossy butterfly that you can just see on the inside of the card.
I stamped a gear image onto some transparency that I cut a bit larger than the butterfly window on the front of my card. I used double sided tape to attach it to the front of my card base. Then I added my mat (made from purple suede paper and patterned Graphic 45 paper on top). My mat already had the butterfly window cut out. I matched up the windows and glued it down. The stamped transparency shows through. I cut out a gold glossy butterfly to place on the inside of my card. When the card is closed, there is a gold background to the butterfly.
This is not a new technique but one that isn't used a whole lot. Hope you enjoyed my card today!
Thanks foo stopping by!
Lis
