Hello and happy Sunday! The technique in today’s ”mini bendi” card came from Elaine’s Creations free Zoom craft classes, happening every Friday. I loved the subtle bend and dimension in this card style, and it even still lays flat for mailing! The layout for this card was inspired by the TGIF Sketch Challenge #298. I’ve also joined the latest SUOC challenge #266 Designer’s Choice. You should check out both pages for inspirational projects!
Also, I didn't color the entire flower image, intentionally. The concept behind this card was that "together we can make a difference"... as the butterfly lands on the black & white flowers, it starts to influence change.
The mini bendi card project that Elaine showed us, used large “bendi” pieces for sentiments and stamped embellishments. I decided to use much smaller pieces to create a 3D flower pot. I ended up using a "bendi" strip behind the flowers also to get them to bend with the card, and then added the long skinny sentiment strip across the flower pot.
Bendi Flower Pot Measurements
These measurements are only suggestions, and can absolutely be modified to fit your project. The length of the top thin flower bendi strip should be modified depending on the width of your flowers. I also ended up overlapping the Flower Pot Top bendi strip over the Flower Pot Bottom bendi strip based on the final position of my flowers.
Butterfly Transparent Coloring
The transparent butterflies... this was a fun technique that I CASE'd from Elizabeth's Craft Room, using the Dragonfly Garden set. This is easy to recreate yourself, the trickiest part for me was stamping a clean image, because the stamp can easily shift/slip when stamping on the window sheet (transparency). Using a stamp platform tool is recommended.
Stamp an outlined image - with Stazon ink, on a window sheet, transparency, or acetate. Note: If you make a mistake, you can use rubbing alcohol to wipe it clean).
Wait briefly for it to dry (should be less than a couple minutes), then flip the material over to color on the back side.
Alcohol-based markers, like Stampin' Blends, are key to this technique (some work better than others). We tried a water-based ink, like Stamp & Write markers and the ink beaded up.
Let your alcohol marker coloring dry (should be less than a couple min), then you can cut it out, die cut it, or punch it out. Note: if you're using a double-image punch, like the Butterfly Duet or Dragonfly punch, it is much more difficult if you try to punch through the window sheet, transparency, or acetate with both images at one time. We recommend punching through either the big image by itself, or the little image by itself.
Materials List
Floating & Fluttering Bundle
Artfully Aware stamp set (retired)
True Love Designer Series Paper
Whisper White Cardstock
Basic Black Cardstock
Window Sheets
Stampin' Blends
Stazon Ink
Subtle Embossing Folder (Background)
Tasteful Textile Embossing Folder (Black Pot)
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