Thursday, May 4, 2017

Watercolor-y Wonderful Day


Here's my card for the current Fusion challenge. I combined the sketch with the watercolor and butterfly elements from the inspiration photo to create my colorful design.

Have a Wonderful Day card-designed by Lori Tecler/Inking Aloud-stamps and dies from Lil' Inker DesignsI started out by creating my watercolor panel.  I pressed a bunch of different distress inks on to a large clear block then spritzed the inks with water and pressed watercolor paper on top to make the magic happen.  So pretty!  I sped up the drying process with my heat tool, then set the panel aside to flatten underneath a pile of cardstock packs. 

While it flattened, I die cut a pair of butterflies from vellum and a pair of silver fringed strips.  The fringed strips were adhered to the left edge of the panel, staggered just a bit to add interest.  The butterflies were layered and adhered only at their centers, allowing the wings to be folded back slightly for dimension.  I used a piece of a crystal flourish to form a flight train for the butterfly and added a few more crystals to the butterfly to form a body.  The "have a wonderful day" sentiment from the Lil' Inker Designs Apple of My Eye stamp set was stamped beneath the butterfly in black ink.  I adhered the finished panel to a coordinating cheery yellow card base.

Materials Used:
Apple of My Eye stamp set, Stitched Butterflies dies (Lil' Inker Designs); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); Dried Marigold, Mermaid Lagoon, Evergreen Bough, Mustard Seed, and Festive Berries distress inks (Ranger); Lemon Drop cardstock, Die-namics Mini-Fringe die (My Favorite Things); white vellum (Stampin' Up!); Recollections Silver cardstock (Michaels); The Paper Studio clear crystal flourish (Hobby Lobby)

5 comments:

  1. Love the colors and the design with the vellum butterfly and the fringed pieces on the side. So pretty!

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  2. This is gorgeous! Love that watercolor panel!

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  3. Gorgeous colours Lori! So glad you joined in the fun @ FUSION

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  4. Gorgeous, Lori! That background is luscious! Thanks for joining us at Fusion!

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