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Sharing a CAS card featuring the lovely Butterfly Gown stencil from Funky Fossil Designs.

I decided to go with a stencil rather than stamp as my main feature on this card so I could play along at Mod Squad.  I used Distress Inks and the smallest of the Life Changing Blender Brushes so I could ink the stencil in different colours.  I wasn’t game to outline the butterflies completely so limited myself just to adding in their bodies with some Enamel Accents.

My colour choice is inspired by the cookies at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie.  The cookie inspiration was also why I added the green accents in Enamel Accents, to give a bit of height and texture to imitate icing, and why I chose the Ornate Trims and embossed them for my two accent lines.

I’ve got those accent lines as part of my layout thanks to the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches I’ve followed.  My image was too big for the rectangular element so I used mats to create it topping the three coloured ones with a dry embossed white panel.  I then fussy cut my stencil girl and placed her over the top.

This card is actually going out to a friend for her birthday but I thought adding a sentiment would ruin the simplicity and elegance of the design.  I also couldn’t see any need for any embellies deciding to keep this uber CAS to let that gorgeous stencil shine.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

WOW! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Pale

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Funky Fossil Designs Stencil ~ Butterfly Gown

Stampin’ Up! Embossing Folder ~ Tufted Dynamic

Inks & Paints etc

Ranger Enamel Accents ~ Electric Lime

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Broken China, Scattered Straw, Tea Dye & Worn Lipstick

Tsukineko ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Fourz Cardstock ~ Tropical

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Collection Cardstock ~ Worn Lipstick

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Granny Apple Green

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS 326 Ornate Trims

Challenges

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #115

Mod Squad ~ Use AStencil

Thanks for stopping by!