Saturday, April 5, 2014

Watercolor Butterfly

I broke out my inks, brush and water to do a little watercoloring for the back of the butterfly and added a touch of gold glitter and sequins.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and the butterfly dies are from Memory Box.

Here are the wonderful challenges that inspired this card...


(my style is clean and layered)










(watercolor technique)



(guess Mr. Butterfly started to fly off the page...he's a little high based on the sketch!)










14 comments:

  1. Love the combination of all of the challenges and the texture of the embossing folders looks amazing!!

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  2. Beautiful! I love what you've done with this sketch. Thanks so much for playing along with US this week!

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  3. Beautiful! I love what you've done with this sketch. Thanks so much for playing along with US this week!

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  4. Lovely card. The butterfly is beautiful and I love the colors you used. Saw your card at Unscripted Sketches :) Good luck!

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  5. You really knocked this design, colors, and EVERYTHING out of the PARK!!! Amazing,
    love the butterfly, all the papers and embossing!!! The watercolor, the glitter and the amazing choices of the embossing makes this so RICH, love it!!! Ooooh hope you join us again and again at Unscripted Sketches, hope of the"Sketch it Saturday" challenge!!! Thanks for sharing!

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  6. Another WOW card! Love your butterfly and how you have him partially inlaid! the panels at the bottom add so much texture and dimension to your card! Once again, thank you for linking it up to Seize the Birthday!

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  7. What a beautiful butterfly, Kathy. You've incorporated all those challenges so nicely.

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  8. Gorgeous card Kathy, so elegant and pretty, I love the different textures.
    Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
    hugs
    Mandy xx

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  9. Fabulous card - love your embossing panels! Great colors too! Thanks for playing at US!

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  10. This is what I call Classy and Elegant! Love the different textures you made with your color strips and that is a really pretty butterfly die!

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  11. Gorgeous butterfly and I love the textured panels. Thanks for playing along with Seize the Birthday!

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  12. I love the water colored background that you created - fabulous way to highlight the goregous butterfly diecut! And the bottom panel of diecuts .... Wow - so creative and so visually appealing! Gorgeous colors and perfectly placed bits of bling! Thanks so much for sharing your lovely card with us at the Card Concept Challenge :)

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  13. Love your delicately coloured butterfly. Great to see the use of watercolour on cards. Thanks for joining the STAMPlorations' April Challenge. Good Luck! Monika

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  14. Absolutely gorgeous Kathy, the textured panels are fabulous and your butterfly is out of this world!! Thank you so much for joining us at The Card Concept.

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