Butterfly Birthdays

Hello everyone and lovely to have you visiting!
I seem to be in card-making mode right now, but then I have a lot of birthdays to make for in August...
I made two rather similar and fairly quick cards, here is the first:

I used the Tim Holtz layered Butterfly die with matching embossing folders for both cards. The base is a paper from the Prima Time Traveller collection.

I cut the butterfly first from Grunge paper and then from a small piece of a paper from the Finnabair Sunrise Sunset collection. I glued the two together and then ran them through the embossing folder. I inked and spritzt with some Walnut ink and when dry covered it all with Clear Rockcandy Distress Crackle paint. When the crack appeared I rubbed some Walnut Stain Distress Stain into the cracks and highlighted the raised bits with Treasure Gold. I also used one of the Shadow Press folders, though it is hard to see on the photos.

The sentiment is from the Tim Holtz Classic 11 set. I also added a piece of the Trellis die cut from Kraft Card.

The second one was done in a very similar way, using the same paper collection.

This time the butterfly was cut from 480 grms white card and coloured with a mix of Golden Fluid Acrylics and Distress Inks.

The butterfly was covered in Rock Candy Crackle again and the cracks highlighted with Walnut stain. I love how it took on an almost glass like appearance.

This time I fussy-cut some flowers from one of the other papers and mounted them onto the trellis die cut.

The word Congratulations was embossed with a Darice folder.

Well hope you like my cards, the first one is for an artist friend, the second for my sister in law, neither of them are into card making at all, so fingers crossed they will like them....

 Isn't it amazing how the month of August is just flying by? Thank you for visiting and hope you will find some time to do something creative!