Butterfly Birthday and Anniversary

For these cards, I used up two more card parts that had been on my table - the backgrounds. I had tried a technique that didn't work for me very well. I'm not even sure I remember what I had done, but I think that I used a background stamp with Versamark. On this first one, I simply brushed the color directly over that. You can kind of see the stamping - I used an old Stampin' Up! background called "Just Jeans." The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. The butterfly was cut with a new-to-me die. I added a patterned paper backing to it and popped up the wings with foam squares.

If you look closely at this one, you can see that I used a different, old Stampin' Up! background stamp. Then I used a stencil to add the color over that. The sentiment is again from PTI. The butterfly is cut from a light purple foil cardstock and I added vellum behind it and again popped up the wings with foam squares.

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