Twofer Card Challenge #29: Butterflies

Playing in Darnell's Twofer Card Challenge #29: Butterflies!

There is still time to play until the 24th.  So many Gorgeous and Creative Twofer

Butterfly cards by Dolly's talented DT and Followers:-)

I was totally inspired by DT Girl,  Marcia's post to stamp and pencil color on Tan paper

and her Split-4 Technique,  which makes 4 card fronts.  

Hope you like my cards,  Marcia, Dolly and friends!

I used the same stamped and die cut butterfly from the STAMPlorations "Fluttery" 

stamp set for both cards.

I stamped with  Versafine black ink the pot of flowers and butterfly 

 onto the Tan Mixed Media paper,    Then die cut both with the "Fluttery" die cuts.

Then the fun began using Prismacolor pencils to color the images.

I loved the ease of pencil coloring over the Tan MM paper.  

Next I die cut the pot of flowers into my tan card front and inlaid my colored image.

Then die cut the card front with CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch

Rectangle Nesting Dies.

Stamped the sentiment and  shaped the pencil colored butterfly with stylus

 and then popped up the butterfly with mini dimensionals and

attached to 100# white cardstock and done.

I loved the rich colors I was able to achieve with the pencils on Tan MM paper!

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Here is the Split-4 Stamping Technique Video by Creative Treehouse that 

Marcia shared on her blog .  I used the same SU "Forever Fern" stamp set.

Be sure and check out the video.  A fun and easy technique to get 4 card fronts

to finish into cards.  

To finish my card front I die cut my border with the 

Spellbinder Hemstitch die and stamped the sentiment from the same fern set.

Next stamped,  die cut and Zigs colored the butterfly,  which I shaped with a stylus.

Next I attached card front to a layer of SU Garden Green CS and 

attached to SU Whisper White 100# Card base and done!

Sharing a photo of the 4 card fronts I made using the Split 4 technique.

The top 2 card fronts are upside down so you can see how I stamped in a circle

the Forever Fern images.

Thank you again Marcia for inspiring me to try the techniques I used for my Twofer cards!

Thank you Dolly for the pencil coloring technique and your awesome Twofer Butterflies

Challenge.  Thank you for reading my long post!

Hope some of you are inspired to try these techniques.

Stay Safe and Creative,  my friends.  Love and Hugs...