Add some whimsy to your next card design and emboss a vellum butterfly!
Today’s whimsical design is from our designer, Kassie, who said, “I love creating butterfly wings with metallic embossing powder and watercolors on vellum. It creates a beautiful stained glass look with very little effort!” She’s so right; this card feels “NEXT LEVEL” with that embossed velum and we love it!

- Stamp 38003 Fluttery Wishes with embossing ink on velum and heat emboss with gold embossing powder
- Color the butterfly using watercolors
- Die cut butterfly with 38003D Fluttery Wishes die
- Sprinkle watercolor pigment powder randomly on a piece of watercolor paper, spray with water to activate the powder. Allow tor dry completely
- Randomly stamp 3487-09 French Script BG in embossing ink on the watercolor paper. Sprinkle with a mix of gold and white embossing powders. Heat the embossing powder
- Die cut the two largest dies from 5903D Victorian Label Nested die nested together to form a frame (cut 4)
- Ink one frame with embossing ink and heat emboss with gold embossing powder
- Stack and glue all 4 frames together with the embossed frame on top
- Stamp the sentiment from 38003 Fluttery Wishes using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink
- Adhere the background panel to an A2 card base
- Adhere frame to the card
- Adhere the butterfly body to the card leaving the wings free. Gently fold wings up slightly to create dimension and movement
- Adhere gems as desired







