Wednesday 28 June 2023

Vintage Butterfly


Hi everyone, today I would like to share a vintage style card I made when I was in an olde worlde kind of mood, and keen to use one of the vintage style pen nibs I recently picked up in a local art supplies shop. 


I cut a piece of white stamping card 6.5” x 4.5” and created a smoosh background with three colours of Distress Oxide inks. I stamped the main image in Pinecone Versafine Clair, then blended more DOX round the edge of the panel to give a more vintage look. I stamped the butterfly again onto separate card and heat embossed, coloured with more DOX, fussy cut and attached. I stamped the birds and quills onto separate card, coloured, fussy cut and attached, then stamped, coloured and attached my sentiment words. I matted and layered everything onto chocolate brown and aqua card stock, and finally added a vintage style pen nib for the butterfly body, and Glossy Accents to the pen nibs.

Here is an angled picture to show the dimension.


Stamps: AALL & Create #449 Through the Meadows, #908 Quill Ends, #533 Bring On the Sentiments;
Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Antique Linen, Stormy Sky, Frayed Burlap, Vintage Photo, Broken China); Versafine Clair (Pinecone); Glossy Accents;
Other: Vintage style pen nib - Cass Art.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Alphabet Challenge - F is for Flying
Butterfly Challenge #184 - Anything Goes With a Butterfly
Country View Challenges (June) - Vintage (3rd entry)
Creative Fingers #257 - Anything Goes
Double Trouble #141 - Anything Goes - TOP 3
Lost Coast Portal to Creativity #169 - Use Some Words (3rd entry)
Sweet Stampin’ - No Designer Paper - TOP 3
Triple B (June) - Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms (2nd entry)
Word Art Wednesday #601/602 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Take care, and thanks for visiting.
Hugs,

12 comments:

Rainey's Craft Room said...

Wow, love this and in my favourite blue and brown colour combo too for vintage designs. Your nib body for the butterfly is a fabulous 3D element.
Lorraine

crafty-stamper said...

Fabulous card and stamps love the butterfly with the Vintage pen nib body-love it.Thank you for joining us at Stamping Sensations
Carol DT x

Sarn said...

This is a stunner Pauline. Love EVERYTHING about it. xxx

Melanie Hungerford said...

Amazing card, love the vintage feel and all the dimension. Thanks for playing along with us at Double Trouble!

Chris said...

A beautiful mixed media card, fabulous stamps and stamping, love the colours, dimension and vintage feel. Thank you for joining us at Sweet Stampin'
Chris
x

Darlene said...

OH WOW! This is just stunning! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Triple B challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

Darlene
Co-Owner
Triple B
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS

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Mrs A. said...

I love the way you have glossy accented the pen nibs and then used a real one for the beautiful butterfly which takes centre stage on this card. thankyou for coming and playing in the butterfly garden with me. Hugs Mrs A.

Laurie said...

Love everything about this from you color palette to all the circles and other stamped elements and the butterfly. Brilliant idea to use a pen nib as the butterfly body. This has a vintage vibe that really speaks to me. Thanks for joining the Lost Coast Design Challenge!

Alyson Mayo said...

Love the vintage approach and the split sentiment! Thanks for sharing with us at Double Trouble :)

Linby said...

A gorgeous combination of colour and great use of the ink nibs too.

Craftyfield said...

Lovely card! Thanks for playing with us at Country View Challenges!

Suzanne Reynolds said...

Beautiful... You did a great job on a vintage card, creative background for your beautiful butterfly with the nib body... so cool. Thanks for sharing your card with us at Double Trouble.