Butterflower you ask? We're making beautiful cards for the special Mothers in your lives with a stamp that has butterflies and flowers. Learn how here!
This card is so fun! The stamp makes you want to do something crazy beautiful with it, doesn't it?
To create it we start by heat embossing the butterflower image and the sentiment. We do that by brushing a watercolor cardstock card panel with anti-static powder. As a result the embossing powder won't stray from where we've stamped. Next we're going to stamp our image with watermark ink.
Then we'll sprinkle black embossing powder over the top and give the card panel a good tap to remove the powder from anywhere other than where we have stamped. And now we'll heat it with our heat tool until the embossing powder is smooth and melted.
Butterflower Coloring
We're using watercolor brush markers to color the beautiful image on this card. And we'll use two tones in each of the images within the stamped images.
Beginning with the flowers, we are going to tap a tiny bit of orange in the areas where light would hit. Next, using our watercolor brush filled with water, we'll draw the orange to the other end of the petals. And then we'll tap the pink in where shadows would be.
The water will move the pink into the orange and create a nice blend.
We'll do this for all of the flowers, varying the intensity of the color by using more water on some.
On the wings we'll use yellow in closest to the body. And then we'll balance the orange in the flowers by using orange on the tip of the wing and then drawing the colors together using the same technique we used for the flowers.
We'll stick with yellow for the center of the bottom portion of the wing, but we'll use green in the center and teal on the outside edges. And then we'll balance them with a variety of tones of greens in the leaves.
Finishing
The background appears to be very stark white with all that color and the black. So we're going to splatter some mat black ink spray. To do this, we remove the sprayer from the bottle. Then holding the sprayer over the card and tap it. As a result you have a beautiful variation of black splatters. And you just keep tapping until you are happy with the effect.
The sentiment looks a little lost on the card panel so we'll use a small blending brush to blend in a little blue behind it to make it pop.
Now we will trim a black color panel to 1/8″ on all sides of the card panel. Next, we'll center the card panel on it using a glue runner. And then we'll center it onto the card base and attach it with the glue runner too.
To finish off the card, we'll add some Stickles to the centers of the flowers. And finally, we'll add some sequins to the background for some sparkle.
Butterflower Supplies
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- Cardstock: Card base – Gina K Designs Key LIme; Card Panel – Canson XL; Color Accent – Gina K Designs Black Onyx
- Stamps: Gina K Designs Spread Your Wings; Altenew Extra Special
- Watercolor Brush Markers: Altenew Rubellite, Sunkissed, Fresh Lemon, Autumn Blaze, Emerald, Lime, Lagoon
- Watercolor Brush: Altenew
- Ink: Altenew Crisp Dye Ink Dusk; Watermark – Versamark
- Ink Spray: Altenew Jet Black
- Embossing Power: Brutus Monroe Raven
- Embellishments: Gina K Designs Disco Ball Sequins, Stickles Stardust
- Adhesives: Gina K Designs Dot Adhesive Runner
- Anti-static Powder: Ranger Anti-static Powder Pouch
- Heat Tool: Sizzix
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