Shabby Butterfly Card

I have always loved the shabby look on card and scrapbooks, so here is a card that I made in honor of all of you that love the shabby look, like I do :o)

This card is a little more involved, but worth the time! You will need:

Brown Textured Cardstock w/ Beige Underside, White Core (DCWV)

Heidi Swapp Edge Distresser

Jeweled Brad

Butterfly Stamp or sticker

Beige Cardstock

Swirl Stamp (Rhonna Farrer)

Small Flower Punch

3 micro buttons (All Dressed Up)

3 Small Bling Jewels

3 Small Flower Punchies

Silver Embossing Powder

White Acrylic Paint & Brush

"It's Your Day" small stamp

Foam Pop Dot

Sandpaper

Red Ink Pad

Paper Glue

Instructions:

Make an A4 Sized card out of the brown textured cardstock with the fold to the left.

Cut another piece of the brown cardstock the exact size of the front of the card. Sand the edges a little on the top and side, exposing the white core of the cardstock.

Take white acrylic paint and brush back and forth on the front of the paper, not going to the edges. Set aside to dry for a few minutes.

Take another small piece of the brown cardstock and tear a piece the length of the front of the card, making it roughly an inch or two wide. Sand the left edge of the paper and then pounce the torn edge of the paper into your red ink pad. Take your edge distresser and tear up the torn edge a little. Also use the distresser on the painted piece of cardstock on all edges. Glue the torn piece of cardstock to the left edge of the painted cardstock. Then adhere the whole topper onto the card.

Stamp a swirl in red right on top of the painted part of cardstock. Adhere three small flower punchies on the swirl. Glue a tiny button into the center of each of the flowers and also put three bling jewels here and there on the swirl design.

Fold the right top corner of the brown cardstock and place a jeweled brad through it.

Stamp a butterfly onto beige cardstock and emboss with silver embossing powder. Trim closely around the butterfly and place it on the top part of the torn cardstock.

Stamp "It's Your Day" onto a piece of beige cardstock and cut a rectangle around the design. Adhere below the butterfly with a pop dot.

Whew! That was a lot of work, but I think you will be very pleased with how it turns out and you will get a lot faster every time you make this one. Happy crafting!

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