Tuesday 7 February 2012

Magenta Fantasy Film Butterfly







I just love Fantasy Film and have a pile of butterflies on my desk half way through incarnation!    This card has the large Magenta butterfly stamp.  I love Magenta and they never delete stamps so you can always get oldies.  This stamp I have probably had for about 10 years!   As you can see, the wings are Fantasy Film and there is a great video which shows how to do this and I will attempt to make a link to it. The photos look like they are 2 different butterflies but they are the same one, it's so irridescent.

The body is made of wire and beads.  I have done this by taking the wire and folding it in half, add a bead, let it drop to the  half way point, then thread one piece of wire through the next bead, push it to the first bead and thread the other piece of wire through the hole with the wire sticking out.  Pull the wire and continue adding beads in this way. When the body is long enough make an antennae by cutting off the wire and twisting the ends with a round nose plier or round the end of a paintbrush etc.

The Fantasy Film wings are made by stamping your stamp into Stazon black ink and putting on your desk, ink uppermost, then laying 3 or 4 layers of film on top.  Cover with a piece of craft sheet (or baking parchment etc) and carefully iron on medium  heat until it is fused together.  You have to peek after a few presses and check, continue until it is done.  Peel it off your stamp carefully.  Cut out close around image.  If there are any patchy bits of inking, you can use a black permanent pen (or Copic etc) to go over the image. I have done 2 sets of wings to add dimension.

Keep all the leftover bits as you can reheat them into a sheet and use it for die cutting.  The background is a Heidi Swapp mask  sprayed with a few different Glimmer Mists.   The button started out as clear plastic.  Using a page of an old book I used a double sided sticky sheet on the back of the button and cut around it.  I made the holes using a large needle and threaded a piece of soft wool through and tied into a knot.

The background piece is edge distressed and machine stitched onto metallic card .  A piece of trim is attached using ultra sticky tape (the red one) and the whole thing sewn onto an A5 size white card.  I like the fact that you can see the stitching on the inside but you can always cover it with a paper insert etc.

I am off to find out how to link the Fantasy Film video!

I hope you like this one and please leave me a comment if you feel like it.

Love

Anne

22 comments:

~ Ali Robertson ~ said...

this is beautiful....very pretty indeed, love it

Ali x

Alyx said...

Ooh...this is gorgeous. The colours all go together so perfectly. Fabby card!
xx

annemarks said...

Thanks Ali :)

annemarks said...

Thanks Lexie :)

Linda Simpson said...

This is stunning, I do so love your butterfly and the embellishments are gorgeous.

Hugs
Linda xxx

Unknown said...

oh i loves this, the butterfly is gorjuss and lush xx

annemarks said...

Thank you Linda :)

lyn clark said...

stunning cards Anne thank you for your covely comments now following x

Lindsay Craftymonster81 said...

Such a pretty card, I just love these butterflies
Lindsay xx

Marie said...

So much detail in this card - it's great!
Marie x

annemarks said...

Thanks Lyn :)

annemarks said...

Thanks Lindsay :)

annemarks said...

Thank you Marie :)

Angela said...

Hi Anne, beautiful work. Just popping by to say thanks for your visit to www.tintinheart.com and that I am now a follower.
Ax

annemarks said...

Thanks Angela :)

Kim said...

Gorgeous card, Anne! I've never heard of Fantasy Film. Sure makes lovely results!

annemarks said...

It's also called heat fusible film and it's made of the same stuff as angelina fibres but in sheet form. Another toy for us in the playroom! Thanks for visiting my blog :)

Vee Cassidy said...

A lovely card, Anne. vee xx

annemarks said...

Thanks Vee :)

Stampindamour said...

WOW Anne!! This is so pretty! I love the details, esp the butterfly! xo

-pamela ;)

annemarks said...

Thanks very much Pamela :)

lexiemess said...

lovely cards on here Anne really enjoyed looking through your blog !