Saturday, 13 July 2024

Sending You Sunshine

           Hello Bloggers!  Today's card used 14 pieces of ½” wide card strips.  I used shades of pale blue, teal, dark blue, lavender and purples.  This is a great card for using up leftover pieces of card.  I covered a piece of card with a sticky adhesive sheet, peeled the backing paper off and laid each of the strips down next to each other, making sure to put them right next to the edge of the previous strip.  Next, I used the full butterfly from the Bountiful Butterflies set.  needed to cut it out five times, diagonally from the bottom left corner to the upper right corner.  This will require several passes through the die cutting machine each time due to the double thickness of the card.  Using the same large butterfly from the Bountiful Butterflies die set,  I cut it five times out of white card.  Next, I covered a piece of white card with a sticky adhesive sheet, then peeled the backing paper off and attached the first piece of card with the different coloured strips on top of it and the butterfly apertures.  I filled in the remaining exposed sticky areas with Frosted Sparkle Glitterbitz.   I glued the five white butterflies into each opening by only gluing the centre of the butterfly body but lifting the wings upwards.  I cut the Sending You Sunshine die in black and glued it to the right corner of the card.  The card was completed with white mats and layers.  The finished dimensions are 7 ¼”  x  8 ¼” in size. 


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All for now, Sue x






                                                                                         

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18 comments:

June Smith said...

Good morning Sue and all Wilsonettes, what a fabulous card and a brilliant way to use up all those strips of coloured card, the flying butterflies really are fantastic, love it, on my list.

Stay safe, healthy and happy, hugs, June Smith xxx

Barbara Gosden said...

Hi Sue
A lovely card.
B xx

Crafty Vonnie said...

Good morning Sue,
A fabulous card that uses up some of our scraps of card. Love your beautiful butterflies. Yvonne xx

kittyedavies47@gmail.com said...

Morning Sue.
A lovely card thank you.
I give all my scrap card to the local nursery
they are always so grateful,when they have used all the "good bits"
they use the rest teaching the little ones to cut useing scissors.
Take care all Kitty.

Deb E Isle if Wight said...

A beautiful post and great scrap buster.

cr@fty said...

Good morning Sue
What a pretty card and a fabulous way to use up our scraps!
Hugs x
Heather T

hazel young said...

Wonderful card Sue xx Hazel

jean.phillips1 said...

Morning Sue, great way of using those bits we all keep, beautiful card. Love Jean xxx

Scottydog said...

Love it! Will have to start saving some scraps as like Kitty I send my scraps to a local nursery. A beautiful card, thank you Sue.

Lisbeth said...

Morning Sue. What a lovely colourful card today and the background is a great way to use up all those scraps of card. Such a simple idea but the result is so effective.

Lisbeth

Helen Bell said...

Hi Sue

Very effective. Lovely colours.

Love Helen xxx

BridgetCG said...

Morning Sue, a really beautiful card today, the coloured strips are such lovely colours and perfect for the white butterflies. Bx

Pat L said...

Hi Sue
Such a lovely card and a great way of using up all those left over bits of card, love the beautiful bountiful butterflies

Love and hugs to everyone
Pat

Beryl said...

Lovely card.

sued99 said...

Love this card. X

Anonymous said...

A very pretty card sue love the colours and the butterfly’s thank youxxxxxxxxJune horrocks xx

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

Lovely butterflies with the sparkling background and the colourful stripes! Beautiiful card

Liz said...

Absolutely stunning card, Sue. Fabulous design.
Liz xx