Clear Butterfly Pop-Up

Hello everyone! Today I have a pop-up card to share which features a bunch of fun techniques: dies, clear elements, inky watercolour paper, stamping and molding paste. I was sending something to Karen Burniston (for a project you'll have to wait a while to see), and I sent this card a long. She received it yesterday, so now I can share.

When starting out, I only knew that I wanted to make a clear pop-up and see if it would work to use a stencil and molding paste to add something to it. I made stencils using the Mini Butterflies dies (see this tutorial). First the acetate was stamped with a swirl stamp and white Stazon ink, which adds great depth to the card. The acetate was die cut with the 3-D Label pop-up, using the pop 'n cuts base tray.

I mixed blue and yellow paint into light molding paste, not letting them mix completely to add colour variation to the butterflies. I got this idea from a post by Jan Hobbins. Thank you for this idea Jan! The paste was applied through my homemade stencil with a palette knife and left to dry. When dry, I dry-brushed a bit of yellow paint on top to increase the texture and added a rhinestone trail. It looks like the butterfly is sort of floating on the pop-up.

I added two molding paste butterflies on the inside, using both of the Mini Butterfly dies.

A Darkroom Door sentiment stamp, from the Bright Blossoms Vol 1 set, was stamped on a label die cut from ledger paper. I used watercolour paper as my base for the card, applied Distress Stains to my craft sheet and misted the paper heavily with water before dragging through the inks. It was stamped with a new Hero Arts ledger stamp and one of my favorites, the alphabet stamp from Tim Holtz School Desk set.

Love this layered stamp look. The small sentiment stamps come from Darkroom Door Wildflowers Vol. 1 set.

This is the front of the card. The flowers were die cut from scrap papers using the Tattered Flower Garland die and layered together with a brad in the middle, the flowers on the inside of the card were done in the same way. A Simple Saying was stamped on a Tattered Banner die cut from ledger paper.

 

I had some left over paste, and used a Mini Mosaic stencil on the front of the card to apply it through. You can see that the blue and yellow paints have mixed more at this stage, giving a greener colour. This was left to dry before colouring the background with Distress Stains.

I stenciled a third butterfly on acetate, cut it out and adhered with foam dots. On this butterfly, you can clearly see that the acrylic paints weren't completely mixed.

Here you can see the mechanism of the card better, it is hard to photograph clear pop-up cards.
Thank you for looking!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:
Dies: Sizzix: 3-D Label pop 'n cuts, Pop 'n Cuts Base Tray,  Love Set Sizzlits, Mini Butterflies, Tattered Banners, Tattered Flower Garland
Stamps: Darkroom Door: Bright Blossoms Vol. 1, Wildflowers Vol. 1; Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz School Desk, Tiny Texture, Simple Sayings; Hero Arts: Life Can Be S5773, Friend Collage AC022
Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black; Distress Ink: Broken China; Stazon White
Stain: Distress Stain: Mustard Seed Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, Evergreen Bough
Paint: Golden Artist Paint: Cobalt Blue, Primary Yellow
Medium: Golden Artist Paint Light Molding Paste
Stencil: The Crafter's Workshop: Mini Mosaic
Surfaces: Daler & Rowney watercolour paper; 7Gypsies Postale Ledger 8 x 8 pad; Studio Calico Classics 3 6 x 6 pad; acetate
Embellishments: Panduro white rhinestones; lace trim