You Fill My Day Butterflies with Joy Clair Designs

   

Hello everyone!  Today I'm here with more inspiration from the 

Joy Clair Designs

Summerlicious Release 

You Fill My Day Digital Stamp Set

This is such a beautiful image to work with.  Let me show you how I made my card!

As usual, I started in the computer with the butterfly image.  I sized it.  I would get back to the sentiment later on in my process.  I printed this out onto white copy paper.

This quite an intricate image.  I wanted to stamp it onto patterned paper.  The paper would have to be  quite plain without too much of a pattern.  I wanted to make 3 butterflies.  I took my patterned paper and taped it to the copy paper over the butterfly image and sent it through my printer.

I did this 3 times on different colors of paper: blue/green, blue and aqua.  Then I trimmed them down so I could color them with my Copic Markers.  I let the paper color govern the marker colors here.  I used more of a green color combo on the blue/green paper, a blue blend on the blue paper and an aqua blend on the aqua paper.

I did minimal shading on these and I didn't color everything.  I just filled where I thought it would bring out the pattern in the butterfly.  After coloring I fussy cut them.

For the Green I used: G00, G02, G12, G05.  For the Aqua I used: BG01, BG05, BG18.  For the Blue I used:  B32, B23, B24, B28.  There are some tiny dots of black throughout the design.  I used a gold glitter pen and went over these dots.  I also filled in a few places.

I chose a piece of background paper.  It had a similar feel as the paper I printed the butterflies on but it was from another company.  I cut a panel of it for the background at 4" x 5 1/4".  With a scrap of that paper, I printed off my sentiment.

I felt the background panel was going to need something else besides the A2 white top folding card base that I had made, so I cut a piece of gold glitter paper just 1/8" bigger.  These really looked beautiful together.

I die cut my sentiment with a banner die and backed it with the gold glitter paper, leaving a narrow amount showing.  I also used a shimmer pen on the bodies of the butterflies and then put Gloss Accents on them and let them dry.  Time to put my card together.  I adhered my main panel to the card base.  Then I played around the with the placement of the butterflies.  I soon realized that using all 3 butterflies was not going to work visually.  So, I adhered the Blue and the Aqua butterfly to the front.  I bend up their wings before gluing them on.  The I tucked my sentiment in-between them.  For the last bit of sparkle I used moonstone confetti.  I was going to use gold but I realized that they would detract from the butterflies and the gold glitter paper.  The moonstone still gives sparkle without overtaking the background!

Thanks so much for coming today.  I hope you'll give this a try and make your own beautiful creation!

You can find the entire Summerlicious Release here!

Joy Clair Designs

Til next time

Betsy

 

Winter Wedding with Rachel Vass Designs

 

In Love Rose with Rachel Vass Designs

 

Hello everyone!  Today I'm bringing you another beautiful design from

the November Release from:

Rachel Vass Designs

In Love Rose

This is another beautiful design from Rachel!  I wanted to make a slimline

and decided on 3 windows with a rose in each.  I was going to add a sentiment

and printed one out, but decided not to use it.  So, I first sized my image and

then made 3 copies of it on my page and printed it out.

After printing this out, I moved to my card base.  After choosing my background paper,

I cut a basic slimline rectangle using a die.  Then I measured this panel to

accomodate 2" square openings.

I cut my 3 squares out of my panel really making sure of the placement of

the die.  

I was really pleased with how this came out...measuring is not my strong point! 😅

I knew I wanted to watercolor these roses, so I had printed this out onto 140lb.

hot press watercolor paper.  I gave it some time to "dry" - I don't have a laser

printer, mine is ink jet.  To minimize ink smearing I like to give the printed piece

some time to absorb into the paper.  This actually works.  My printed is an HP - and

I use HP inks...just in case you were wondering.

I decided to use Prima Marketing Watercolor Confections - Decadent Pies palette.

This is kind of an odd mix of colors, but I really like it.

I painted each petal separately.  I washed it with water...being careful not to wet

the entire petal and dropped color in. Then while it was still wet I went in with a darker 

color and added bits for shadows.This is about as messy as I can get with watercolor. 

 I have to stay in the lines, but I really like the randomness of where and how the color dries.

I really was trying to match my colors to the patterned paper.  And it looked

really nice when done and dried.

I cut each rose out leaving enough paper around it so it would work within the

2" die cut squares.

I adhered them from behind with a liquid adhesive.  I foam mounted this panel

onto a slimline size base and my card was finished!

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial.  Please watch on social media all month

long for inspiration from the Design Team!  It's wonderful release!

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Thank you so much for stopping by!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Rachel Vass Designs, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.