Brutus Monroe - Sequins Hop
Hello crafty friends! Thanks for stopping by my blog today! It's Wednesday, which means Brutus Monroe Inspiration Team blog hop day, and guess what? It's my last blog hop with the Brutus Monroe team. I've been with the team for over a year now, and I'll be moving on after this week. It's been a great experience and I've learned so much! The theme for this hop is "Sequins", so we've each created a project featuring some of the new Prism sequins.
I started out by stamping the butterfly three times in Raven detail ink onto some Alabaster cardstock. I colored the wings with Zig markers and then cut the wings out individually. I ran a black marker around the edges of the wings, which gives cut images a more polished look. I used small slices of foam tape towards the outer edges of the wings and liquid glue in the inner area, so that the inside would sit flush with the paper and the outer edges would be popped up, giving the illusion of the wings flapping. What I SHOULD have done to make my life easier is glue the Rasperry colored sequins to the back of the wings BEFORE I adhered them to the paper, but I did not. So instead, I spent a whole bunch of time using tweezers to glue the pink sequins in place when the wings were already attached to the paper! Then I used tweezers to position the Green prism sequins in the middle to make the bodies, and drew curly antennae with a black pen.
I heat embossed the sentiments onto Raven cardstock with Alabaster EP, and trimmed them down into banner shapes. I adhered them to the front of the card with foam tape. To finish it off, I drew some black polka dots around the card front, and popped the whole thing up onto a card base with foam tape. This card has tons of dimension and I'm pretty sure I'll have to construct some sort of small box-envelope to put it in, but it's so worth it for the sparkle and shine!
Next, be sure to hop over to Jessica's blog because I LOVE what she created!
I started out by stamping the butterfly three times in Raven detail ink onto some Alabaster cardstock. I colored the wings with Zig markers and then cut the wings out individually. I ran a black marker around the edges of the wings, which gives cut images a more polished look. I used small slices of foam tape towards the outer edges of the wings and liquid glue in the inner area, so that the inside would sit flush with the paper and the outer edges would be popped up, giving the illusion of the wings flapping. What I SHOULD have done to make my life easier is glue the Rasperry colored sequins to the back of the wings BEFORE I adhered them to the paper, but I did not. So instead, I spent a whole bunch of time using tweezers to glue the pink sequins in place when the wings were already attached to the paper! Then I used tweezers to position the Green prism sequins in the middle to make the bodies, and drew curly antennae with a black pen.
I heat embossed the sentiments onto Raven cardstock with Alabaster EP, and trimmed them down into banner shapes. I adhered them to the front of the card with foam tape. To finish it off, I drew some black polka dots around the card front, and popped the whole thing up onto a card base with foam tape. This card has tons of dimension and I'm pretty sure I'll have to construct some sort of small box-envelope to put it in, but it's so worth it for the sparkle and shine!
Next, be sure to hop over to Jessica's blog because I LOVE what she created!
Lauren (you are here)
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Super Pretty Card! Love the way you incorporated the BLING! TFS
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DeleteI love how you took the Take Flight stamp up another level! What a fablous idea! Love Love Love!!
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