A Butterfly’s Bad Day – Tutorial #241

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Now about this wacky tutorial today, lol.  I like to challenge myself to use stamps that are seasonal in the off season, clear as mud.  🙂  Anywho, this is one of the Stampin’ Up wheels that I unmounted yesterday.  It is called Arachnophobia.  I consider this a Halloween stamp and was so happy to get another use out of it.   Wouldn’t this card make you laugh if you were having a ruff time and someone sent it to you?  How can you look at those goofy spiders and not grin, at least.

Let’s get on with the tutorial. . . . . .

Supplies: 

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Arachnophobia Wheel and Dreams Du Jour

Paper: Stampin’ Up Lavender Lace, Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black & Whisper White

Ink: Stampin’ Up Tempting Turquoise & Basic Black

Accessories: Stamp-a-ma-jig, White Gel Pen, Prismacolor Pencil, Paper Snips, Old Olive Brads, Piercing Tool, Sponge, Post it notes and Ruler

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I drew the spiderweb using a ruler and a White Gel Pen on a piece of Black card stock.  The card stock started out larger than when I finished.  I ended up cropping it down to 3″ square.

I masked the corners with post it notes to miter the stamped image so they would look more uniformed where they met each other.

Stamped the unmounted “Arachnophobia” stamp using Basic Black ink and a Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement.  Repeated the masking and stamping process for each side of the card stock.

Colored the spider’s eyes in with a White Gel Pen.

Colored the Spiders bodies in with a Spring Green Prismacolor pencil.

Stamped the Butterfly from the “Dreams du Jour” set on a piece of Whisper White Card stock.

Colored the butterfly with a Tempting Turquoise marker and the Spring Green Prismacolor Pencil.

Cut the Butterfly out with my paper snips.

Edged the butterfly with my White Gel pen so it would stand out more.  If I had been thinking I would have just left some white card stock around the butterfly as I was cutting it out.

Sponged Tempting Turquoise ink around the edge of the spider panel.

Assembled the card front and added Old Olive brads to the front of the card using a piercing tool to start the brads.

Finished assembling the card and here it is finished measuring 5.5″ square.

I hope this tutorial has inspired you to look at those seasonal stamps in a different light.

May your day be much, much better than this Butterfly’s.  🙂

Until my next post. . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

Huge Hugs,

Michelle

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