April 2019 NC Demos Blog Hop

Welcome to the monthly NC Demos Blog Hop.  This months theme is Spring and all the Holidays that will occur during this time frame.  I wasn't too sure what I was going to do for this hop and what decided it for me was DSP.  Yes, I saw a SU pattern I loved and had to use it in a card.

My card is done for a Spring Birthday but it can be easily changed to a Mother's Day card or even a Wedding card the choice is yours.  This is my card.

To begin I took a piece of Night of Navy cardstock and cut it in half to measure 5 1/2 x 11 and scored it at 4 1/2

Then I took a piece of Balmy Blue cardstock and cut it to 5 1/4 x 4 to that I attached a piece of Needlepoint Nook DSP  cut 5 x 3 3/4  and placed that on the card base.  Just love this DSP.

That was the easy part.  I then took a piece of Glossy White cardstock and very lightly sponged some Night of Navy and Balmy Blue ink on it and it has to be done lightly because I decided to make this piece look like Faux Mother of Pearl.  After the ink dried I then took the Frosty White Shimmer paint and a piece of plastic wrap to get the effect I wanted.  To do this I then crumpled the plastic wrap and dipped it lightly into the shimmer paint and dabbed it all over the Glossy cardstock I had sponged to get it just right.  This Faux Mother of Pearl is an old technique I had used many years ago and I was happy to try it again.  I then set it aside to dry.  When dry I punched it out with the Starburst punch and glued it on a 2 1/4 inch circle of Night of Navy. This piece I then attached to a 2 inch piece of Night of Navy Gingham Ribbon and attached it to the DSP piece with Dimensionals.  Now that that was over I had to decided what to do with the rest of the card.

So I grabbed the Butterfly Gala stamp set stamped the image in Black and colored it in with Watercolor pencils.  I wanted intensity and was happy with the results.  I made 4 of the butterfly pairs and used the co-ordinating punch to cut them out.  A large one and a small one I attached with Dimensionals to the Faux Mother of Pearl circle.  And two more of the small one around the card.  

To finish it off I colored clear rhinestones with the Night of Navy Dark Blends and put three of them on the card one in the circle between the butterflies and two others where I felt they belonged.  The front of the card was finished.

For the inside I stamped stamped the Salutation "Hello Beautiful" in Night of Navy on a piece of Whisper White cardstock 5 1/4 x 4 and attached it to the inside of the card and then with a Dimensional added a large butterfly I had left over and I was done.

I also did another version using the Polka Dot Tulle ribbon.

Please be sure to stop by again next month.  Thank you for visiting.

Toni Campana <https://tonimariscreations.wordpress.com/?p=351&preview=true>
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> Anita Trippi  
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> Tina Lesson  
> <https://stampingkz.blogspot.com/2019/04/april-2019-nc-demos-blog-hop.html>
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> Jo Anne Hewins  
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> Laurie Meier <https://stampedgreetings.com/tea-together-mothers-day-card/>
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> Frances Wagner  
> <https://wagstamps.blogspot.com/2019/04/nc-demo-april-2019-blog-hop.html>

> Tracie Evans Langley 

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