Ok, if you're one of those people that never want to know anything ahead of time, just pass this post up and go on your merry way. I've got a lovely suite of stamps, dies, DSP, and more that you can't order just yet. You have to wait just a few more days if you decide you need these lovelies. You'll be able to get your hot little hands on them on March 2nd. Now see, that's not so long to wait, is it? So let's see what the surprise is! Drum roll please.....
Isn't this simply gorgeous?!? It's amazing that Stampin'Up! comes up with such gorgeous designer paper time after time. We've had some really beautiful paper recently, but in my humble opinion, this new set of 6 x 6 papers called Butterfly Bijou is absolutely the very best so far. And this designer paper is just a small part of the new Butterfly Bouquet Suite which is awesome!
This is the very first card I've made using the new Butterfly Brilliance bundle. The watercolor splotchy background is one of the pretty paper designs, but so is the butterfly accent! One of the paper designs is just these gorgeous large butterflies. I would have willingly cut them out to have them, but SU! made a butterfly die that lays out over this paper and cuts out 6 beautiful butterflies at a time. On this dsp, there are 2 pink, 2 blueish, and 2 golden butterflies, so you have lots to play with.
I started with a card base of Coastal Cabana. Cut a layer of the Butterfly Bijou dsp that was 5" x 3 3/4" and attached it to a Basic White cardstock layer cut at 5 1/4" x 4". This was attached to the card base using Dimensionals to give it a pop.
Next the sentiment layer was cut using Tasteful Label dies on Basic White cardstock. The words I chose to use come from the Garden Wishes stamp set. The words were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink off to the side. This was attached to the card front using Dimensionals again. Then the fun really begins...
The Brilliant Wings dies have 12 dies to the set and one of them is the 6 butterflies attached together that fit perfectly with the butterflies on one of the dsp designs. So with one cut, you have 6 gorgeous butterflies to play with. I chose to use the largest of the butterflies in this lovely golden color palette to contrast with the blue/greens in the designer paper. The butterfly was attached using Dimensionals. The top wing tip actually has two Dimensionals stacked to give it more lift. This butterfly is beautiful on it's own, but I gave it a few strokes of Wink of Stella to make it even more delicate looking. I think it shows enough on this picture to give you an idea. It's really eye-popping in real life.
I added 3 of the Opal Rounds to the card to give it some extra bling without adding to the colors. The iridescence of them seemed to be just what it needed. Still very simple, but beautiful!
Since I had an extra strip of the dsp left over after cutting the top layer, it was added to the inside edge of the card. And then I realized I had 5 more die-cut butterflies from that one piece of designer paper. So... after looking them over, I decided to stick with the golden yellow accent color and added the small butterfly inside the card to finish.
Can't tell you how excited about this new Butterfly Bouquet collection I am! Everything coordinates so well and the colors are just yummy - sort of a 'bright pastel' look. I can't wait to share more ideas with you using this collection. You know there'll certainly be more! So many ideas just flitting around in my brain like little butterflies. 'giggle'
Here's the information about this entire collection. Go ahead, start drooling now!
Ok, ladies. Ready, set, shop on March 2nd (if you're like me)! Keep looking until the end of the post to see all the parts of this collection. I made the pictures larger so you could actually see them. There's a lot of goodies in there!
It's beautiful, Sharon!
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