I’ve got a trio of cards and a new video for you to enjoy today, featuring another Stamping Bella Tiny Townie Butterfly Girl, this time the one with the epic full set of wings – Babette. She was the perfect choice to show off one of my favourite techniques.

Click on through to check it out and watch the video to see how the card came together!

Butterfly Girl Babette Cards:

I’ve been demonstrating my love for using the Distress Oxide inkpads * to create ink blended backgrounds. But that’s not the only way I like to use them! You may remember that last year I posted some inspiration on the Stamping Bella blog for using Distress Oxide background pieces created using the ink smooshing technique to paper piece mermaid tails (HERE). I was looking at the gorgeous new Tiny Townie Butterfly Girl Babette stamp, and thought this would be the perfect way to create some gorgeous butterfly wings too! So I created some background pieces, stamped and paper pieced the wings and created some eye catching cards. I filmed the entire process so you can see how I did it and follow along if you would like!

You will find a full list of supplies at the end of the post.

Here are the three cards I created.

As you can see, I couldn’t resist carrying the Distress Oxides through to the background too!

The purple one is my favourite, with the galaxy effect going on. So pretty.

As you will see in the video below, I added a tiny amount of coloured pencil for the shadow under the top wings, to add some dimension and help separate them. So easy to do, and you have effortlessly gorgeous butterfly wings!

Butterfly Girl Babette Cards with Distress Oxide Butterfly Wings Video:

Watch me create the Distress Oxide wings and put together my cards in the video below or in HD over on YouTube.

Full colour details are provided in the video, along with a little commentary on how I put the whole thing together. If you enjoy the video, please do like and subscribe, it all helps!

Supplies:

• Stamping Bella Tiny Townie Butterfly Girl Babette
• Make it Colour Blending Card
• Strathmore Bristol Smooth Surface paper *
• MFT Extreme Black Ink Pad
• Ranger Non-Stick Craft Mat
• Distress Oxide Ink Pads *
• Copic Markers *
• Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Circle Stackables die set
• Mama Elephant Landscape Trio Creative Cuts die set
• Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen *
• Beacon Adhesives Fabri-tac Glue *
• Cosmo Cricket Tiny Text Stickers
• Memory Box Co Hearts & Stars #98755 die
• Memory Box Co Mini Heart Collection #98763 die

UK/Europe Readers: Tracy at Dies to Die For stocks Stamping Bella stamps and dies. and also the MFT Extreme Black ink pad that I use when stamping an image for Copic colouring. I also buy all of my Lawn Fawn and Mama Elephant goodies at Dies to Die For.

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