Challenge & Sympathy

I have been joining the Saturday with Bridget workshop that has Altenew Educators along with other card makers and they have a challenge every week. For the week of January 14 was a card using orange.

 All white cardstock is Accent Opaque Digital International Paper 80 lb. cover smooth white cardstock except card base that is Recollections 110 lb. white cardstock. All product is Altenew unless otherwise noted.

I had been wanting to use this bundle but like we all, too many toys not enough time LOL. Started by grabbing a piece of 6x6 white cardstock then using the bountiful butterflies 6x6 builder stencil set with crisp dye inks from the warm and cozy collection sunkissed, orange cream, and autumn blaze; from the four scoops collections dark chocolate; from rock collection silver stone. Then die cut it with rectangle stitched die by Kat Scrappiness, then die cut a layer of orange 65 lb. Core’dinations sand it, tear it, emboss it, love it with glass effects Shapeabilities by Spellbinders and mounted both to an A2 card base. Using 2-1/2” circle punch by EK Success punched on 65 lb. vellum cardstock by Stamp On It then die cut 4 butterflies with the matching die set and on one of them I colored with the same colors as the background then glued all together and then glued on to the vellum

normally I leave cards without messages until I need them so for this card used a foil plate since I don’t like wet embossing. Picked mini Christmas sentiment strips hot foil plate & die set by Spellbinder for the Glimmer Hot Foil System which is what I have and used scraps of Glimmer foil opaque black from the set black & white. Didn’t use the die to cut the message just the guillotine. The message said joyful blessings to all but in all the set I had there was no sympathy plate so this ones the one that would work the best for what I needed.