CAS Embossed Vellum Butterflies
This month has been busy for me both a work and life in general and now that Father's Day has passed I can concentrate on a challenge card. Football is also back on the TV so a perfect excuse for me to escape to my craft room! June's mixed media challenge at CAS Mix Up is focusing on embossed vellum. I came across my gradient coloured vellum sheets the other day so set about stamping & heat embossing in gold this gorgeous butterfly stamp by Phill Martin, from his second Sentimentally Yours box kit. On the back of the stamped vellum I dry embossed all the butterflies with a ball tool so they have a raised effect and the inner parts of their wings are whiter though not sure my photos have captured that very well. Attaching vellum to a card can be tricky as glue will show through so I used a ribbon die four times and arranged to make a frame then glued behind that onto the card base ... problem solved. I've left this an open card for now and wil...