Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty Bidford: Ali CT

Sharing this card today, I was inspired by my teamie Alison Jane's gorgeous monochromatic card earlier this week and thought I'd add a blue butterfly or two to support the Blue Bee Crafty August challenge 💙💙💙

Cut a piece of white 300gsm card 4 1/2" x 4 1/2". Fix this to a craft mat using rolled up tape on the back. Use low tack masking tape to tape the Bee Crafty Botanical Garden Big One over the card.

Use the back of a spatula to scrape a thin layer of black texture paste over the stencil.

Carefully remove the tape, lift off the inkable and place it into water.

Allow this to dry, can use a heat gun to speed up the process but avoid overheating and bubbling the texture paste.

Stamp one large and two medium butterflies from the XL Birds & Butterfly Art Stamps in black versafine ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Colour the butterflies using light blue and dark blue watercolour pens and a damp paintbrush to blend.

Stamp the small Life & Rain sentiment onto white card and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Trim down the sentiment, fix to a large back matt with a 1/16" border than on to a white matt with 1/16" border.

Fussy cut around the butterflies with scissors leaving a small white edge, or is you have the matching dies, die cut them 😎

When the texture paste is completely dry, attach it to blue card matt with a border of 1/8" (or you could colour the edge of white card if you haven't got any blue).

Then attach to a black card matt leaving a 3/16" border and then on to a 6" square white card blank.

Fix the sentiment with foam pads and the butterflies with 3d glue gel.