This week's challenge involves either folding money into a shape or decorating a paper wallet to give as a money holder. Lexi shares a wonderful video showing how to fold a dollar bill into a shirt. Check it out
here. My daughter had her 9th birthday on Friday. I knew I had to incorporate a money shape onto her card. She loves the Papertrey Ink Color Pop Butterflies kit so I knew I had to use that in some way. I wasn't sure what colors to use so I sought out the latest Colour Q challenge to give me a palette to work with.
I love that dark blue paired with those bold colors. Here is what I came up with:
Since my daughter loves butterflies I decided to make a money folded butterfly to add as a focal point for the card. I watched
this video by Simply Debbie to make it. I used some gold wire for the antennae. I didn't realize the butterfly would be soo wide but I didn't have time to make another. Fortunately, I was just able to tuck this card inside the gift bag just prior to giving it to my daughter so I didn't need an envelope If I were to do this again I'd definitely find a smaller butterfly.
This is my first time using the Color Pop Butterflies kit and I absolutely love it! The background of this card was soo fun to make! You use a stencil to ink in the butterflies, flowers and leaves shapes. Then you add details over top of that using stamps. I actually used the same color of ink to sponge and stamp. The sponging gives you a lighter shade of ink than directly stamping thus making it easy to add your details. I did add a third layer of details to the organge butterflies using PTI's terra cotta tile ink but I could have easily just used the MISTI to stamp over the images a few times to make the ink dark enough to stand out. I cut a vellum banner using Sunny Studios Banner dies to have a place rest my "happy" sentiment also from the kit. I accidentally embossed the birthday word in white. I actually stamped it in blue then stamped a layer of versarmark over that then added what I thought was clear embossing powder but apparently it was white! OOOPS!
My daughter absolutely loves bling so I instead of adding the stamped details to the flower centers I added tiny holographic rhinestones to finish the card off. The butterfly is attached to the cards with glue dots and can easily be taken off and unfolded to spend. My daughter loved it so much though that she wanted to keep the butterfly on the card! I am thrilled that she liked it! I can't wait to let her use the kit and see what she can make!
I need to go eat supper. I will be back either tonight or tomorrow with more details of the supplies I used and such. Thanks for looking! Please come back again!
I used Danielle Flander's beautiful card for inspiration. You can see it here. I had some gorgeous pre-embossed paper in my stash which I used for my card base. I brush some watermark ink onto the flower cents and embossed them with bronze embossing powder. The doily was something I also had in my stash. The Color Pop Autumn kit was used for the rest of the elements in the card. The sentiment was cut from bronze paper. Brown sequins also add a bronze element. This card has such much texture it begs to be touched!
