Hi All!
Hope you all had a great Halloween! Way, way too much candy consumed at our house. I love those Fast Break bars.
I wanted to do something cool and different for this card. I really love my distress inks. It’s amazing how much use I have gotten out of the few colors I bought. Because I was going to spray the paper with water, I used watercolor paper by Stampin’ Up!. It’s much more rigid and textured. It doesn’t warp at all from the wet ink.
You probably can’t tell from the photo, but the butterflies have a shimmery, pearl look to them because I mixed the water with Perfect Pearls by Tim Holtz. I keep the Perfect Pearls powder mixed with water in a mini-mister spray tool, which I reuse over and over. And when the distress inks get wet, they look like watercolors. I also added kind of a tie-dye look by inking the edges of the stamp with black.
For the second week in a row, I have experienced user-error measurement difficulties! Oh well, I need to work on that.
Enjoy!
SONG: Apologize by OneRepublic – love this song!!
Is the video blocked in your country due to music rights? You can see an audio-swapped version here.
Supplies:
- Hero Arts Traditional Butterfly Stamp
- Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Black Soot, Peeled Paint, Broken China, Tea Dye
- Tim Holtz Perfect Pearls
- Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Paper
- Stampin’ Up! Cardstock: More Mustard and Basic Black
- Stampin’ Up! Scallop Trim Border Punch
- Stampin’ Up! Basic Black Classic Ink
- Stampin’ Up! Glue Dot
- 1/8″ Black Satin Ribbon
Thanks for visiting my video blog! I post a new video every Wednesday and sometimes an extra when I have time.
Wow! Love this card! The video is great… thanks for sharing your card-making process!
WOW,WOW,WOW!!! So beautiful!!!
I just love your work. You do such good videos.
Wonderful design and colours!
Hero Arts mentioned your video on Twitter today!… Yay! Congrats!
I love this card. I really love the way you stamped the butterflies with multiple ink colors. It adds dimension and such pretty detail. Great work, Darlene, as always! 
Gorgeous!
Great card ;D I love using this technique, and Distress Inks are my favorite! I only have a few colors too but they are awesome.
You did it again! You took a simple concept and make it look spectacular!!
Lovely card!
Love it.
WOW! Love this card, and love the music video, too!
Wow…absolutely breathtaking! I love the technique & beautiful layout! Thanks sooo much for sharing your creativity with us!
Take care
Your card is nice. The video was great along with the music. That is one of my favorite songs as well.
I love your cards. Your style is what I strive for.
Gorgeous card! Easy to follow and I learned a few new techniques.
Thanks, Ter