Countdown to Confetti - Butterfly Blossoms & Happy Mail

Today is the first day of the Countdown to the July Release from Reverse Confetti!  Today we are showcasing the Butterfly Blossoms and Happy Mail sets!!   These are two gorgeous sets!   I don't know about you but I love butterfly stamps, it does not matter what kind of butterfly, I tend to gravitate to anything butterfly!  When I saw the new Butterfly Blossoms stamp set,  I was so excited! Happy Mail is a new stamp set that you can use to decorate your envelopes or tags.   Of course you can also use the floral images on a card.   

I really love this image with the flowers intertwined with the butterfly.   I knew that I wanted my butterfly to really pop off the page, so I decided to go with a really dark background instead of a white background.   I went with Stormy card panel and then decided to stamp the image several times on the panel with Stormy ink.  I then die cut the panel with the Diagonal Stitches Cover Panel to add some texture to the background.   My sentiment was stamped onto the bottom right of the card panel with Versafine Onyx Black ink to get a really crisp sentiment impression and then I embossed it with clear embossing powder.   

   For the main image, I stamped and die cut the butterfly from Butterfly Blossoms and colored in with my Copic markers.   I really love bright blue butterflies,  you can find aqua to cobalt colored images when you search on line.   I went with the aquas and then colored my florals bright orange, yellow and red to make it pop!   I added it to the card panel with foam tape and that finished my card.  

With the new Happy Mail stamp set, I decided to make an envelope to match the Butterfly Blossoms card.   I used watercolor paper that is 80lb weight.  I used my envelope punch board to create an envelope for an A2 card.   I masked off the front panel of the envelope and then I then ink blended with Iced Aqua and Lagoon ink onto the watercolor panel.   I dried the panel with my heat gun to speed up the drying time.   

I wanted to stamp the images from Happy Mail with Versafine Onyx Black ink and clear emboss it so I tested it a few times to see if my embossing powder was sticking before stamping out the images.   A stamp positioner is really helpful when stamping onto watercolor paper, even with this 80 lb weight.    I did stamp it several times to get a really clean and crisp look to my stamping.    I used several different blues and aqua Zigs to color in the floral image from Happy Mail.   

I threw in a new tag die to complete the ensemble today.   This new tag die is  called Fold Over Tag Confetti Cut.   I die cut it from white card stock and then stamped the butterfly image from Butterfly Blossoms.   I colored it to match the butterfly on my card.   

I found a sentiment in So Many Sentiments that went perfectly with the sentiment on the card, Keep Smiling.   I made sure to stamp the butterfly so that the image went across the front and back panel.   I added some dot details with my Copic's around the image.  Now I have a card ready with a matching envelope and tag!   

That is it for me today!  Hop along today and make sure to leave comments as you go, the Confetti Crew and Fetti Friends are sure to fill you with inspiration! Be sure to return for the next two days of sneak peeks.  The release will be available on July 8th.

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