Tamp-a-Tile chalked Butterfly

My goal the past month has been to show you and maybe even entice you to seeing what an asset these tiles are to the mediums you already have in your studios. Like your stamps, papers, chalks, Twinkling H2O's, acrylic paints, Pigments, Glitters, Stickles, colored pencils and so much more. They are simply a new, innovative way to create colorful backgrounds or shapes. Each tile is a tool that makes masking easy! You can use the tiles as a template, as a die for creating shapes, or to create unique frames.

For today's example I used the butterfly tile.

There are 8 sections to this tile. The inside frame measures 3.5" x 4.5" and the outside frame measures 4.5" x 6".

To achieve this finished card I:

1. Stamped my background before I even placed the tile on my paper. Using yellow cardstock from Kaiser I stamped the background with my French Quarter set - # 50386 - from Inque Boutique. I randomly stamped my paper with these stamps and Bottle ink from Adirondack.
2. I then placed my butterfly tile over my stamped background and removing one section at a time I used chalk from Pebbles to bring out the design. I trimmed my image to 3 3/4" x 4 7/8" (I know I need to get better with standard measurements - sorry).
3. To further enhance the butterfly I outlined the outer edges with yellow stickles and the inner sections with my Copic super brush Multi-liner.
4. I matted my finished piece onto a 4 11/16" x 3 5/8" piece of the same yellow that I had started with.
5. To create a ribbon effect I stamped a 1/2" x 5 1/2" strip of green metallic with a border strip from the same stamp set. I adhered the strip to the upper portion of the card, then added the matted butterfly.
6. The rest is pretty simple, a few eyelets, 2 acrylic flower buttons & my saying adhered to a 1/4" strip of the green metallic.

This card could have been finished so many different ways and have been for so many occasions. Such as a birthday, hello friend, etc.

I have a few more projects to show you with the tiles and an exciting announcement to make and I just checked with Terry and her website is almost ready! The finishing touches are being put on as we speak, so stay tuned!

Comments

[Mary C. Anderson]

Your card is absolutely stunning.

Mary

[Corie]

Wow, this is Gorgeous