Purple butterfly card

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well today. This is my very first  Guest DT post for 'The Craft Barn'. I was  so thrilled to be asked  as you can imagine :) The theme this week is  'Upcycle week' so I  decided to upcycle a lemonade can. Not done much of this but I  quite like the idea of it now.Anyway come and look what I made....

Card Recipe First I made a 144 mm card base and used it tent fold style.  I used an old lemonade can , I cut the top and bottom part off, then cut the cylinder in half using scissors.  

 I punched three butterflies from the metal,

   then  ran  those through an embossing folder for  texture.

   Using some TH alcohol ink in purple, I dabbed some onto the butterflies. I used a heat gun to set the colour.

    Then I used three Promarkers to add colour to each butterfly  & heat set those also. I used a dark blue Promarker to colour the separate body and feelers. I heat set these again and then glued these onto the main butterflies. I printed a sentiment  and glued it onto the card, after first distressing it with some TH purple ink. I cut two more strips of white card & used  3d pads to raise it  above the main part of the card either side of the sentiment. I cut  a strip of purple card & added that to the side of the other two strips.  A few clear gems added to the butterflies completes this card. Also see below for free P&P offers at 'The Craft Barn'.   "As part of our Grand Opening celebration following our move,
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 Supplies 144mm white textured card base

Purple card off- cut

Empty lemonade can

Memory Box Moonlight Butterfly die

Cuttlebug embossing folder Script

TH Alcohol ink Purple Twilight,

TH Distress ink Dusty Concord

Promarkers Cobalt blue, Carmine, Forest green, Indigo blue

Clear gems

 PP sentiment    hugs Viv xx