Butterfly card | D.Ann's Crafting Whims

Welcome back to another card from Altenew’s Creative Watercolor Media Class.

Lesson 4 was quick and easy watercoloring with ink sprays. Once again, I had trouble with my stamped image in dye ink bleeding, but I dabbed it up and re-wet and had a light grey background that didn’t seem to bother the vibrancy of the mica sprays.

Love that shimmer and how the three colors blended! I did the body and the tips of the wings after drying the blended areas. Then I used Nuvo drops to add the embossed frame some dots, hearts and a doodle to finish it off.

Materials used:

Altenew Bejeweled stamp and die sets
Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists: Coral Reef, Stormy Night & Sunflower
Tonic Studios Gloss Nuvo Crystal Drops: Apple Green; Caribbean Ocean & Carnation Pink
Canson L’Aquarelle Hot Pressed Watercolor paper 140#
Core’dinations Parisian Nights A2 pink card base
Tombow Xtreme adhesive

I am entering this card in the Altenew Creative Watercolor Media Student Gallery.

There’s a lot on my plate tomorrow, but I’ll be back soon with the last two cards from this fun class.

~D.Ann

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Hello, all! I HAVE been busy, just not with crafting lately. I’m popping in now with a quick post of a pair of cards I made using Spellbinders dies and Die Cuts and More Stencils.

The November DCAM (Die Cuts and More) challenge is to use stencils and at least three of these colors:

That works well with Simon Says Stamp’s Monday Challenge: Trio-tastic.

And they just happen to go perfectly with Marker Pop’s color Challenge #109 to pick 3 of:

I decided to use one of DCAM’s new Two-Step stencils, using an ombre inking of Memento’s Rhubarb Stalk on the first step and some Gelatos mixed into whipped spackle on step two:

I had leftover spackle, so decided to tri a different angle. (Yes, I admit, it’s a vague and terrible pun!)

Inking the butterfly diecut with Rhubarb Stalk before removing it from the die added extra interest. I was pleased with how the Spellbinders curved borders die made a great banner. For dimension, I just folded the scallops up a bit.

At first, I was just going to have the butterfly on there, but it needed a flower. I wanted something to go with the banner, so I pulled cut a scalloped circle, cut it in half and folded it at each valley toward the center of the circle. Then I took a couple of Copic markers to emphasize the petals. You’d never know it wasn’t a flower die!

So… which one do you like better… the ombre triangles going straight across or the solid ones at an angle? I kind of like the latter one a bit better… glad I had the extra spackle that made me try it!

Materials used:

Die Cuts and More: Tri-Elegant two-step stencil
Spellbinders dies: A2 Curved Borders One Card Creator, Classic Scalloped Circles, and Wings of Hope
Die-Versions Sweet Wordlets: Thinking of You
Memento dye ink: Rhubarb Stalk
Copic Markers YR 21 & 24
Faber-Castell Gelatos – Gold
Faber-Castell Whipped Spackle
Core’dinations Foundations cardstock Canvas Texture – Golden
Core’dinations Gemstons Cardstock – Quartz
Coredinations cardstock – White
DCWV card base
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L EZ Runner permanent adhesive
Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Glue
Misc. foam squares

I’ll be entering these cards in the following challenges (either linked to this post or to Instagram). Click on any of them for more info on how you can join the fun:

DCAM (Die Cuts and More) November challenge
- Edited to add:
  - Thank you, DCAM, for the honor of being chosen as your international winner!
Marker POP! Challenge #109 Color
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Trio-Tasic (3 colors/3 words)
Crop Stop Linky Party #22: Anything Goes
- (They carry Spellbinder, Memento & Core’doinations)

I’m glad you could stop by today! The Winter Coffee Lover’s hop is coming up in just a couple of weeks, so I’ll look forward to seeing you then, if not before.

~D.Ann

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