A Little Sunshine

Here's my card for today's SCS featured stamper challenge. It's based on this pretty card featuring a butterfly as a focal image. In my version, I kept the butterfly as the focal image, but changed up the color scheme to a warm orange one.

I used the butterfly image from Our Craft Lounge's Butterfly Kisses set. It's colored with Copic markers, cut out, and covered with a little gold shimmer spray--a little heavier than I would have liked, but still an nice sparkle.

The layout of the card is pretty much the same as the original. Instead of using a paint strip, I used four scraps of varying shades of orange/rust cardstock to make a gradient strip. After attaching the strip to a piece of Lily Bee designer paper, I machine stitched around the edges and layered the stitched panel on a kraft card base. I used the set's text block image to stamp on the scallop edged strip that runs across the card, beneath the butterfly. The "sunshine" sentiment is stamped in black on the darkest piece of the cardstock scrap strip.

Materials Used:
from i {heart} papers: Our Craft Lounge Butterfly Kisses stamp set, X-Press white Copic blending cardstock, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black and Potter's Clay inks, Gold Shimmer Spritz, Copic markers (E31, Y23, Y32, Y35, Y38, YR12, YR15, YR16), Lily Bee Happily Lost 6x6 paper pad, Zva Creative dimensional dots

other: Crumb Cake cardstock (Stampin' Up!); Sweet Mango and Pumpkin Spice cardstock (Gina K Designs), Orange Zest and Terracotta Tile cardstock (Papertrey Ink); sewing machine; burlap mesh