I’m looking for more and more ways to incorporate watercolour painting into my card making. At some point I want to get into more scenes, etc. that I paint, but for know I’m keeping it simple. Like with this week’s card. I’m using a watercolour wash background and I crafted a few watercolour butterflies.
The way I created these watercolour butterflies was by making a watercolour wash on a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper. I started with Blackberry Bliss. Then I splattered some Lost Lagoon on top while the paper was still wet. This way the two colours will blend together a little bit. Once the paper dried I die cut the watercolour paper with the small butterfly dies from the Beautiful Butterflies dies.
Behind my butterflies I have another piece of Fluid 100 Watercolour paper. I started with a Lost Lagoon watercolour wash. Then I added Blackberry Bliss in the lighter areas. Once this dried I stamped a sentiment from the Notes & Totes stamp set using Blackberry Bliss ink. Then I stamped a few speckle clusters, from the same stamp set, using Lost Lagoon ink. I popped up all the butterflies with some Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then to finish it off I added a Rhinestone Basic Jewel to each of them.
This is such a simple way to create some pretty watercolour butterflies!
Check out another card I made using a watercolour wash background here.
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