Today I’m going to tell you all the reasons why I love this new set from Our Daily Bread Designs called “The Greatest Gift.”
- It is a beautiful Mother’s Day set with GORGEOUS butterflies (just look at that detail in the wings!)
- It has not only the butterfly stamps but also the matching DIES to cut out those butterflies (yes! The dies come with it!)
- I love all the sentiments like: “A mother holds your hand for a while, but holds your HEART forever” and “To the World you are a Mother, but to your family you are the World”
- The font on said sentiments is a fantastic blend of script and uppercase lettering
- It makes beautiful cards so easy…
Here are my creations this week with this set:
I heat embossed the butterflies on VELLUM with glitter embossing powder. I thought the wings looked so beautiful on vellum. And there is that sentiment that I love! I used this set for the gate, which I embossed with Liquid Platinum embossing powder.
Here’s a closer look at those butterflies…look at that detail in the wings!
On this card, I also heat embossed onto vellum and then I added color to the back of the vellum using Distress Oxides. If you look closely, you will see where I stamped the butterflies using WATER onto the background to create a ghosted effect. So cool. I love that circle scalloped rectangle die…I just picked this up last month at the Stamp Convention.
For this last card, I thought the butterflies needed some flowers to complete the scene. If I were to mail this card, I would definitely need to make a larger envelope! This time I embossed with gold embossing powder onto white cardstock, then I added some color using a finger dauber and some Distress Oxides in three different colors: Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, and Squeezed Lemonade. I inked up the background with some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide and added another of my favorite sentiments from this set.
I hope you enjoyed these projects today! I’ll be back next week with some fun beachy projects to share…and I can’t wait!
