Peony and Butterfly Pop Up Card

Hello my crafty friends. Today's card combines both older items and new goodies to my craft room. Lisa Horton Crafts have some great Slimline products out - but I am particular about my card sizes and haven't invested in any of that product line because of that. However, when I saw this Wild Peony set, I knew it would work on a variety of sizes and ... yep ... 'Add To Cart'. Ha. The Wild Peony set is a 3D embossing folder with a COORDINATING DIE ❤️!!   There are other designs in the line, but I just chose this one and I am crazy about it and so happy I bought it.

I did the die cutting first, cutting that large bloom from white card stock. It easily lined up inside the embossing folder, and after running it through my machine I was in awe of how pretty it was. Using blending brushes and Catherine Pooler Inks, I added some colour then knew I wanted to add it to a card right away. I spritzed it with Shimmer Spray for some shimmer & shine, and set it aside to dry.

The alcohol ink looking paper is a 12 x 12" pad from Michaels that I've had since last year and I adhered the papers to a 5 x 6.5" card base. Those cards and envelopes are also from Michaels and I've had them for years. I love that they came with envelopes in the perfect size.

The pretty label is a leftover piece from an older Paper Pumpkin kit, and you probably recognize the butterflies by now - they are the ones from Pinkfresh Studios.  On it's own, I think this would be a lovely card but you know I had to do something inside too ...

Here I used the same patterned paper with the Butterfly Pop Up from Spellbinders. This time I didn't add the detail layer - just the solid butterfly layer and of course the butterfly body.

The butterfly body was cut from a leftover piece of pink mirror card stock and then I added a few more of the lightly stencilled butterflies.This card has lots of dimension from those additional butterflies, yet folds down nice and flat for mailing.

It's hard to see in the photo, but I stamped the sentiment on a scalloped circle, then added the stamped and die cut CHEERS. While they are both glued flat down, you still get some dimension from the look.

I actually have a couple of people in mind for this card, which makes me think I should make another one. Or two. 😊  

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Additional Supplies:
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Shimmer Spray

Patterned paper - Guilded Ink, Recollections
5 x 6.5" Card and envelope - Michaels
Grey fine point marker - stash
Fancy Sentiment Strip - leftover from a retired Stampin' Up Card kit