How to Make Handmade Cards with Embossed Butterfly

Do you like to make handmade birthday cards for your friends and family? This embossed butterfly card is a beautiful card to give or to receive!

I love making Birthday Cards for my friends and family and I hope that it makes them feel special knowing that I made a card just for them.

Supplies Used to Make Handmade Cards with Embossed Butterfly

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• White Cardstock
• Pattern Paper
• Butterfly Stamp
• Birthday Greeting Stamp
• Pink Embossing Powder
• Embossing Ink Pad
• Crafting Heat Gun
• Paper Trimmer
• Ribbon
• Label Paper Punch
• Scissors

How to Make the Embossed Butterfly

• Stamp the Butterfly image on a white piece of card stock using a Clear Embossing Ink Pad
• Sprinkle the stamped image with Embossing Powder and then tap the paper to remove the access
• Use a heat gun and slowly heat the paper and the Embossing Powder will melt and join together creating this awesome Embossed image – be careful not to burn the paper or your fingers!

• After the Embossing Powder dries and cools (just a couple of minutes) cut around the embossed image with a pair of sharp scissors
• I added some rhinestone to the body of the butterfly to make it sparkle and pop just a bit more

How to Make the Birthday Greeting Tag

• Stamp the Happy Birthday greeting onto a white piece of card stock
• Using a Label punch cut a piece out of a matching colored card stock, and cut the greeting out with the same punch
• Cut the colored label in half and trim inwards a bit so it won’t show on the sides. You only want the ends to show – glue
• When you turn it over you have a perfectly framed tag

Assembling the Handmade Card

When all of the elements are done you start assembling the card

I made this card for a friend of mine at work and I knew everyone on our team would be signing the card so it needed to have lots of space to sign.

To solve that problem I glued a second card to the inside cover of the card so know there is twice as much signing space!

The embossed butterfly is really my favorite element of this card and I love how simple embossing is. It adds so much to the look of the card.

Have you tried embossing before? Share and leave a comment below!

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