Hi y’all! I’m back with a guest designer for my favorite challenge, Color Hues! I won their Chocolate and Mint challenge. So, I get to join them for this one! Brown and Yellow. I’ll be honest, I did struggle a bit with creating something unique for this challenge. I don’t really have much brown or yellow in my day-to-day life. After hours going into trying different versions, I came up with a CAS design. I would’ve saved a lot of time if I knew that in the beginning! Lol.
I haven’t touched my foil machine in quite some time. I decided to put it to use with some butterflies from Spellbinders. I found a copper foil in my stash and knew that it’s what I wanted to use with it. I feel like it’s brown tinted with a little bit of yellow. I colored in yellow in the wings with a detailing brush and yellow ink. To give it more depth with the brown, I used distress ink and pops of color. I sprayed the brown ink with a little bit of water and mixed it with the clear glitter pop. It allowed for the brown to have a little bit of dimension on the butterfly.
I wanted the butterfly to have more dimension. Therefore, I sprayed glimmer spray on a piece of brown construction paper and used an embossing mat to emboss the butterflies onto the paper. I then die cut it out which helped flatten it out. I stamped the thinking of you sentiment in yellow on a white cardstock. I glued the embossed brown paper butterfly to the right bottom corner facing the I turned the edges of the foiled and colored butterfly upward and glued the center of the butterfly down to the brown paper butterfly.
How would you do a brown and yellow card?? I’d love for you to join along in the challenge! Thanks for reading!
Supplies:
Glimmering Butterflies Glitter Foil Plates & Die set
Glimmer Hot Foil Machine
Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Copper
Thinking of You Stamp & Cut
We are so happy to have you back with us, Caitlin! Your card is beautiful! I never thought of using yellow for the sentiment but I absolutely love how it looks! Every detail of your butterfly is exquisite.
Love your coppery butterfly, perfect with the yellow and the CAS designs lets it sing. So pleased to have you as GD this time. 🙂
Your post made me chuckle…if we all could have that time back where we fuss over a card and or project and get nowhere. Well, you settled into a perfectly beautiful butterfly card. So happy to have you with us at Color Hues. Take care!
Your foiled butterfly is simply stunning! A CAS card is always my fave, and this one is just wonderful! So good to have you as a Guest Designer this round.
I can relate: some of my most simple cards take the longest to create, mainly because I overthink them! Your, here, is lovely! That butter….sooooo pretty! Delighted to have you as our Guest Designer for this challenge!
~carol