StampARTic challenge card and gift box

I'd like to show you a card and gift box matching set that I made for a friend's birthday which I am also entering into StampARTic's challenge which is to make a gift card or card and matching gift box - perfect!! I'm really pleased with how this turned out as I used a lot of my favourite things: my favourite kind of colours; butterflies which are my absolute favourite thing (and there are lots of them on this project LOL); my favourite lace and flowers; and my Stempelglede stamps.

The papers are K&Co and I have distressed the edges with antique linen distress ink and also stamped a Stempelglede flourish stamp around the edges. I stamped the grunge corner stamp from Stempelglede on a some Basic Grey paper which was almost plain white using a mixture of tea dye and vintage photo distress inks to form a mat for my butterfly which I wanted to be the main focus of my card.

The butterfly is cut from a K&Co Madelaine paper that has lots of gorgeous butterflies on in various sizes. I distressed the edges of the butterfly with vintage photo distress ink and added lots of gems to the body. I then curled its wings to give the card more dimension.

I added a mixture of blooms, all from Wild Orchid Crafts and all sprayed with pearl glimmer mist.

The gorgeous lace is from my stash and I punched some more butterflies from K&Co paper to dot around the card.

I decorated the inside with the same paper and stamped the Stempelglede flourish stamp around the edge and also the grunge circle in the middle that is home to another punched butterfly. The sentiment is written with my calligraphy pen.

I made a matching envelope from the same paper and this time used butterflies punched from a coordinating K&Co paper. Again I decorated the envelope with Stempelglede stamps.

As the flowers made the card quite lumpy I tried to make my own ribbon threaded envelope like the gorgeous ones that Abby from Abby's Garden makes but I wasn't too successful LOL it is not a patch on Abby's, more practice is definitely needed!

The envelope closes with ribbons threaded through tiny eyelets. The ribbon and the beads I recycled from around some Christmas crackers!

Now for the gift box. I made a simple box with a wrap around cover so that it pulls out like a drawer. The box is covered in the same K&Co paper which I have stamped with my Stempelglede stamps. I cut another one of the gorgeous butterflies out and again added gems and more punched butterflies.

Each side of the box is stamped with a Stempelglede flourish stamp in vintage photo distress ink and I punched the edges of the paper with MS doiley lace punch (which I think is on it's last legs - oh no!!!).

I filled the box with some of my favourite blooms as the recipient loves to scrapbook!

The gift box and envelope together.



Hope you like it and thanks for looking! x