Papertrey Ink Hello card

I am enjoying the Papertrey Ink challenges because they are pushing me to try new things. For the latest "Great Cover-Up" challenge, we are asked to make a card using a border die with the negative pieces intact. I've never done this before since it seemed like a lot of work, and... yeah, it is a lot of work, haha. It probably would have been faster if I'd used tape and the same negative pieces as the outer frame, but I wanted more of a contrast on my card so I made a second die cut out of solid blue cardstock and used those negative pieces.

I watercolored the outer frame of the Papertrey Ink Bold Borders: Shine die and used a blue cardstock for the negative pieces. The butterflies are heat embossed in silver on vellum and I shaped the wings a little so they would curve up.

Materials used:
Papertrey Ink Bold Borders: Shine die

Papertrey Ink Butterfly Folk stamps and dies

Papertrey Ink Swoosh stamp

Papertrey Ink Stamper's Select vellum

Hero Arts silver heat embossing powder

Jane Davenport Mermaid watercolor markers