Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly: Creating a Heat Embossed Copic Colored CAS Card

Hello my crafty and creative friends!

I've got another card created with a Blue Knight Rubber Stamps September new release stamp to share with you!

But first...a reminder about the New release GIVEAWAY!

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Now..on to today's card!
If you follow my blog...you already know that I'm a very CAS card maker..and that I often heat emboss images before adding color.

Today's September new release TIGER SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY card is very "me"!
It was created with heat embossing and it's very CAS!

Here's some info about how this card came together:

I stamped this big gorgeous image onto Spectrum Noir Ultra Smooth card stock...
ran my anti static tool over the entire piece of card stock.
I used a stamp positioning too to stamp the image a few times with Versamark Ink to make sure that ink was transferred for all of the little details in the images.
I used Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder to heat emboss the image.

Next, I did a Google search for "Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly" to see what the authentic colors of this butterfly might be.
I chose Copic marker colors that represented the colors shown in multiple photos and colored the image.
For matting, I chose a teal-like color matte card stock and metallic gold LCI card stock.
I positioned the matted image piece with foam for added dimension.

Here's a photo that shows the heat embossing and coloring details nicely...

This gorgeous large, card front sized image was wonderful to create with!
I learned something about swallowtail colors with my Google search and was happy with how the very light colors and touches of blue and orange looked with the gold heat embossing when the card was complete.

You'll find the TIGER SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY stamp and all of the September new release stamp sets HERE, at the BLUE KNIGHT RUBBER STAMPS web store.

Thanks for visiting today!
Have a wonderful Day!
Michelle

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