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How to Make Handmade Cards with Embossed Butterfly

June 23, 2020 By: Katie6 Comments

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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!
image of a stamped butterfly covered with pink embossing powder
  • 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
image of cutting out the butterfly shape

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
image of a birthday stamp

Assembling the Handmade Card

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

image of the pieces for a handmade birthday 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.

image of the finished handmade card with an embossed butterfly

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!

image of adding pages to a handmade card

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.

image of finished handmade birthday card

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

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Comments

  1. beetreestudios says

    June 28, 2013 at 1:44 pm

    Really pretty card! I don’t typically make cards but you made this look quite easy, thanks for sharing =) Stopping by from Follow Friday!

    Reply
  2. mail4rosey says

    June 28, 2013 at 1:32 pm

    How pretty, this turned out great!!
    I’m visiting today from the Frugal Fit Family blog hop. 🙂

    Reply
  3. Gena at ichoosejoy.org says

    June 29, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    I’m sure your friends love getting your cards!
    –Gena

    Reply
  4. Melissa @ My Recent Favorite books says

    June 20, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    Your card is so pretty! =)

    Reply
  5. Amy | The Happy Scraps says

    June 23, 2014 at 10:00 am

    Beautiful Card! Seeing this really makes me want to make some cards. It’s been so long since I embossed something.

    Reply
  6. Shanice says

    June 26, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    Thank you for sharing this post at City of Creative Dream’s City of Links on Friday! I appreciate you taking the time to party with me. Hope to see you again this week 🙂

    Reply

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