Butterfly Birthday Card
by Wendy Kennedy

Description: Tips for making a homemade butterfly birthday card.

Materials:

• Lilac Cardstock
• Glossy Paper
• Watercolor Crayons
• Vintage Butterfly Transparency
• Deerfoot brush or small sponge
• Scissors/paper trimmer
• Adhesives including vellum tape

Instructions:

- Cut lilac cardstock to size needed for card - I used 5.5" x 8.5" folded in half.

- Cut glossy paper about 1/2" smaller on each side to card front (4.5" x 3.25").

- Take aquamarine water color crayon and color around edge of the glossy paper as shown below:

- Wet deerfoot brush or sponge (not dripping wet) and pounce on aquamarine coloring until it is all blotted. Let dry.

- Color the same with lilac:

- Pounce with wet brush/sponge. Pounce a little lilac on the aquamarine. Let dry.

- Cut transparency out and attach to the front of the card with vellum tape (doesn't show through transparency).

Visit the author's web site to purchase materials to make this project. Project reprinted with permission from http://www.CanadianCountryGifts.com. Sign up for their free biweekly newsletter by sending an email to ccg-request@newsletter.cndcountrygifts.com with `sub' as the subject.