Monday 3 August 2015

Butterflies and Gold

The challenge this month over at The Mixed Media Card Blog is all about Butterflies with gold as an optional element. Well obviously with my love of butterflies I couldn't go past this challenge.

I am not one to throw things out and in fact if I have left over paint, ink, etc I usually find a journal page or a piece of mixed media paper to use it up on. That's what the background of this card started its life as. I had created another project that used pink paint so I mopped it up with my mixed media paper and in the draw this piece sat until last night.

Pink is not one of my go to colours and I wasn't enthused about using this background but it was there so I used it. To cover up most of the pink I used my palette knife to apply a thin layer of gesso over the surface. I thought to myself this is something that I can now work with.


Just recently I had seen some printed tissue paper that was black with white as the accent colour. I thought it to be quite unusual because normally it is the other way around. To use that as inspiration I found a white doily, cut it in half and painted it with black gesso, I then gently sanded it to give the black paint a distressed look. I added further white detail with my white Gelly Roll pen.

Using my black archival ink and Prima - Old Town stamp, I set about giving the background some depth before I stuck down my embellishments. Deciding this wasn't enough I used some texture paste that I mixed with Viva Precious Metal Colour - Orange Yellow and stencilled it through my The Crafter Workshop - 6x6 Mini Cofffe Splotch. I thought adding the Viva Precious Metal Colour to the texture paste it would come out a pale gold colour. I was mistaken, once dry it was a mustard yellow colour which was not nice at all. By this stage the texture paste was dry and was not going to be removed without destroying what I already had done. So out I pulled my container that held my trusty Faber-Castell Big Brush Pens and coloured the texture paste.

Once I was happy with my background I gave it some more rough treatement by using my distress tool on the edges of the paper. I stuck down my doily, gauze, my stamped and gold heat embossed image from the Prima Rust & Dust Set and finally my butterflies.

My butterflies were created by painting Viva Precious Metal Colour on normal white cardstock then using my Martha Stewart Butterfly punch. To finish of the butterflies I rubbed my Blood Orange Gelato over the top and went around the edge with my big brush pen.

Happy Creating

12 comments:

  1. Congrats for this new design! Beautiful your project! xoxo

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  2. Great work as usual Dee love your creations - Helen

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    1. Thank you Helen, really appreciate you stopping by and leaving a comment

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  3. Love the way you used all the different elements and your out of the box thought processes, fantastic wish I could do that. ❤❤

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    1. Thank you Sandi, I am sure can, I look at the way something is done and then think how I can do it differently, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. x

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  4. Gorgeous card and a great take on this months challenge. Thank you for playing along with us at the Mixed Media Card Challenge.

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    1. Thank you Lysa, and thank you for coming past and leaving your message

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  5. Wow! I saw this card in the Mixed Media Card Challenge gallery and had to pop over to tell you how incredible it is (although I'm sure you already know it!) Love the use of that gauzy linen and the colors and design are STUNNING! I totally pinned so I can stare at it again later and I'm happy to say that I've signed up to be your latest follower. Would LOVE to have you pop by for a visit, too!
    Becca
    Damsel of Distressed Cards

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    1. Hello Becca welcome to my blog and thank you for joining me on my creative journey. Thank you for you lovely comments, can I tell you a little secret, when I first finished creating this card, I did not like it at all, slowly I am began to like it, not sure that I will ever love it but that's ok, I can live with that.

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  6. Beautiful mix of media - especially the addition of the muslin which really softens the look! Love it! Thanks for sharing at the Mixed Media Card Challenge.

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  7. Love your card! Great colour combo of red, white and black, and really cool textures!
    Thanks for playing with us at MMCC. Hoping to see you with us again in September! ♥

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