25 | April | 2016 | Honey Bee Lane

Hi!

Super quick post for the Card Concept #53:

Here’s my Clean and Layered card:

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This card is extra special to me because I made it for my friend, Cindy, while she was here visiting me in Germany from Tennessee. She came for 10 days just to visit me! She and I belong to a card challenge which she started years ago. Cindy, Joy, Gerie, Sue and I are spread all over the place. We are in Tennesse, Virginia, Alaska, Pennsylvania and Germany, but we have fun sending each other our challenge cards every month. For our monthly challenge, we make 2 different cards according to a chosen theme. We make an identical pair for each member of the challenge, so 4 of each card. This month’s theme was ‘Spring.’ I can’t seem to make 4 cards that are exactly alike, so I should say that I made 3 more very similar cards to this one! 🙂

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My friend, Sue, asked me to explain how I made this card. So here are some instructions. 🙂

I stamped on the card base with:

Then, I stamped the butterfly with this SU set on a small piece of cs: (I used the 3 large images, stamping in Melon Mambo, Melon Mambo again and then black)

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Next, I partially die cut the butterfly using this die from SU: (bottom left die)

I did not photograph the partial die cutting, so if you have not tried this before please try doing an internet search for “partial die cutting Butterflies Thinlits dies” or ” partial die cutting” and I think you’ll find some great video tutorials.

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Then I turned the partially cut butterfly around sideways and then partially ran it through my embossing machine again. This time I used Spellbinders Nestabilities Mega Dies, Labels 17.

I added the sentiment and some little dots (to disguise a smudge on this card) and the ribbon. The ribbon was very fussy, so I think that this was the only 1 out of the 4 that got ribbon. (Ric Rac from Really Reasonable Ribbon)