Summertime Butterflies with Wanda

Hi there my creative and crafty friends! It’s Wanda here on The Greetery Blog today to share a project with you! I am always so excited and happy to share with you. Hope you’re having a nice Summer so far! For my project for today I created a watercolor card with a nature theme and an all purpose sentiment. I haven’t made a watercolor card in a while and I was inspired by the pretty butterflies of Summertime…. 

My finished card is an A2 size Kraft card base, layered with watercolor paper die cut with the beautiful A2 Scallops Dies. All the die cut pieces on this card were made using watercolor paper. I kept the design clean and simple and let that pretty purple butterfly shine!

I started by die cutting the Fern Dies, the Butterfly Dies, the background panel and the sentiment panel from watercolor paper. I used Distress Inks and water brushes to color all the pieces and set them aside to dry. For the background I used a wet on wet watercolor technique: Put down a good amount of clear water onto the paper, then add the blue ink into the water and let it spread out into a free form shape! 

After all my pieces were dry, I glued together the Fern and the Butterfly using liquid glue. I added a purple enamel dot to the butterfly. I stamped the sentiment from the All Occasion Script Sentiments set in brown Distress Ink and then went over the writing with a detail water brush to make it ‘messy.’ 

I assembled all the elements together and I used foam tape to attach the sentiment. I do love the greens against the bright purple butterfly….

That’s it for my project for today! I hope you have a fantastic and creative day! I look forward to sharing with you again soon. In the meantime, happy crafting! XO Wanda

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SUPPLIES:

Jumbo Butterfly Dies and Stencils
A2 Stitched Scallops Dies
Fern Dies
All Occasion Script Sentiments stamps
Sentiment Suite Basics Dies

Watercolor Paper
Distress Inks
Water Brush
Kraft cardstock