Butterflies Mother's Day Card

Hi everyone yesterday I shared with you a Mother's Day card I made for my DIL today I have one I made for a friend's mother. I did the cutting of my pieces and the painting at the same time that I did my other card. The only change I made was to make the frame with three openings instead of two for this card. Also I used used dryer sheets which had been ironed and mod podged together to make my butterflies. I love how the butterflies turned out.

I did my frame panel the same as for my previous card by painting with dye inks. Then this time I stamped the panel adding some shadow stamping.

For my butterflies after the mod podge was dry I used my eBrush to color the dryer sheet.  I stamped and used a embossing pen. The Stazon ink smeared but in this case no damage was done. I used Recollection glitter embossing powder. I love how it picks up whatever color is on the surface.  If you decide to heat emboss dryer sheets be really careful with your heat gun. I did melt a piece of the dryer sheet but luckily not where I had stamped. Then I hand cut out my butterflies. I don't know whether dryer sheets could be used with a die cut machine. I know my Cameo would not cut it as the blade would get caught in the weave of the dryer sheets. Although I used a butterfly stamp any stamp will work. 

Here is the finished card. As I said in my previous post my laser printer did not like my cardstock so my foiling for the border is shabby. I went ahead and used my eBrush with a purple marker to airbrush my card base. The sentiment was foiled after I printed it out on the laser printer.


I encourage you if you use dryer sheets to save them to use in your crafting. They add a nice texture.

Off to walk to the mailbox to get the card in the mail. Wishing you Happy Frugal Crafting till we meet again!