Exquisite Butterflies Visit the Fanciful Gladiola Stem by Anne Thompson

Here's another yellow gladiola card! This time I used the Fanciful Gladiola Stem to lure in the Exquisite Butterflies!

I used three of the plaids from GLADIOLA PLAID PP1027--one yellow plaid for the card background as well as another yellow plaid and an orange one for the EXQUISITE BUTTERFLIES 94771.

I started this card by making the Exquisite Butterflies. I cut them first from a yellow plaid and then from the orange one. When I assembled them I put the yellow images underneath the orange ones and added a little bit of VersaFine Clair Acorn brown ink to the butterfly bodies.

Then I die cut the FANCIFUL GLADIOLA STEM 94791 from yellow card stock in the SUNRISE COLLECTION SP1013 and cut it again using a green card stock from GREENERY SP1011. I added a little bit of Hero Arts Butter Bar Ink to the blossoms. I used the envelope to help me assemble the stem (and even then I still had a few tiny pieces leftover--I think if I had cut the die again from an orange card stock I could have figured out where all the tiny pieces would fit to accent the larger blooms). A glue pen and tweezers were helpful tools.

To assemble the card, I started with a blank white top-fold note card and added the 5 1/4 X 4 yellow plaid paper to the front. Next I glued on the completed Fanciful Gladiola Stem. I then used tiny foam dimensional dots to add the three largest butterflies and glued on the smallest one. I left the wing layers so that I could fold them up a bit for more dimension. The last thing I did was to glue on one of the HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOIL GREETINGS WHITE TABS ST006.

This card could have been a thank you one by using a different foil greeting tab or I could have stamped on an appropriate sentiment for whatever occasion I chose. So many options with these lovely dies from the 2024 Gladiola Collection.

Happy Crafting!