Lantern Lighting the Way Card

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Have you ever seen a firefly, otherwise known as a lightening bug? I have never actually seen one in real life (that I recall), but I've seen them in movies and on the internet. They are really interesting bugs with their glowing bioluminescence abdomen. 

Lantern Lighting the Way Card

My Thank You card for todays blog hop is created with the Lighting the Way Stamp Set and Dies from the  2023-2024 Annual Catalogue and the gorgeous Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper from Sale-A-Bration 2024. 

I love the fireflies in this set, especially the large one because you can create the body, abdomen and wings in different colours. I changed the colour of my fireflies on my project to coordinate to my card's colour scheme, so they are not actually true to life colour. In real life their abdomen is much brighter and radiant.

I also love the lantern in the Lighting the Way Dies set as it reminds me of all the years we spent camping when I was a kid and we had lamps like this. As we got older of course we had more modern lamps and torches, but we still had at least one lantern like this for years, in the garage with all the camping stuff. 

I think the lantern worked really well with the Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper. The lantern itself is die cut from one of the sheets of Designer Series Paper and layered onto a cardstock die cut lantern, for stability. I love how the Designer Series Paper gives the lantern a rustic look. I also added some ink around the edges of the lantern and the layers with a Sponge Dauber.  

You can see full details of how I created this card in my video below.

Thank you to kgiron.blogsot.com for sketch number 231 for this layout.  

Lantern Lighting the Way Card

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Measurements

Card Base - Wild Wheat Cardstock - 21cm x 14.85cm, scored and folded at 10.5cm

Layer - Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper (floral) - 10.1cm x 14.45cm

Layer - Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper (Textured Pool Party) - 10.1cm x 6cm

Vertical Banner Strips - Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper - (Wild Wheat) - 1.9cm x 13.5cm

Vertical Banner Strips - Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper - (Pebbled Path) - 1.9cm x 12.5cm

Vertical Banner Strips - Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper - (Pool Party) - 1.9cm x 12.2cm

Deckled Circle - Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper (Pebbled Path) - 9.5cm x 9.5cm

Lantern - Softly Stippled Designer Series Paper (Wild Wheat) - 6.5cm x 9.5cm

Lantern - Wild Wheat Cardstock - 6.5cm x 9.5cm

Lantern Glass - Vellum Cardstock - 4cm x 4cm

Large Firefly body - Early Espresso Cardstock - 5cm x 3.5cm

Large Firefly tail - Wild Wheat Cardstock - 2.7cm x 3cm

Large Firefly wings - Vellum - 5cm x 5cm

Small Fireflies - Basic White Cardstock - 2.5cm x 5cm

Sentiment Label - Basic White Cardstock - 4cm x 1.6cm

If you would like to see how I created this card, you can click on my video below.

I hope my project has inspired you in your creativity and encouraged you to consider playing with the Lighting The Way Stamp Set and Dies. 

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Have a great day and Happy Crafting. 

Love Mandy