Bold Butterflies With The Craft Your Life Project Kit Butterfly Garden

Welcome friends! I'm Mindy Eggen and I'm so excited to be on the Altenew blog with my first official post as a Design Team member! I'm coming in bold with my project today featuring the Craft Your Life Project Kit Butterfly Garden.

One of the many reasons I love the Craft Your Life Project Kits is because of how well everything coordinates and how you can make anywhere from quick and easy cards to something a little more elaborate. When I pulled out this kit to play with, I wanted to keep it whimsical yet striking.

The first step was choosing colors. Nothing says bold like the Amy Tangerine Fresh Dye Ink line. I picked out Lemonade, Ride The Wave and Tickled Pink because I knew having that basic color palette would lead me into beautiful overlapping color combinations when I started ink blending.

Playing With Colors and Butterflies

Using my 9×12 Sticky Mat to hold my cardstock and stencil in place, I set to work on blending those colors with the Zero-Waste Butterfly Garden stencil, Small Blending Brushes and a light hand. With each layer of the stencil, I applied a little more pressure to intensify the color of the butterflies.

The next step is to die cut out all of the images with the Zero-Waste Butterfly Garden die. This gives me lots of options to work with if I want to add dimension.

Creating the Mason Jar for the Butterflies

For the mason jar, I stamped it in Black ink and then added a small bit of color with a light blue marker. I used my detail scissors to trim out the jar and pop it up on the card front using foam tape.

Now I can decorate with my colorful foliage and butterflies. I'm finishing it off with a sentiment from the Breezy Petals Outline Set since it had coordinating dies for the sentiments.

Whimsical yet bold, wouldn't you agree?

I hope you enjoyed today's inspiration on gorgeous butterflies and that you'll also give this fun bold look a try!

Mindy Eggen