Faded Color Butterfly

I am having so much fun with my masking paper and sponges on this butterfly image - and wanted to show you another look for this stamp. I stamped the Inspire Butterfly collage with Brilliance Graphite black and heat set it - so that the ink wouldn't smear (or you can let it dry overnight).

I masked off the area around the butterfly, then swirled on ink color using sponge daubers and 4 shades of ink:

Versacolor Canary (upper left)

Versacolor Lime (upper right)

Versamagic Oasis Green (right side, middle)

Versamagic Spring Pansy (bottom part of wings)

Slightly overlap the colors when spreading the ink on - not too much (especially purple and yellow), but just enough so that things look blended. I used a white pen to fill in some of the dots and then I spread a little glitter glue over the white areas - nice and bright. You'll notice that the black portions of the butterfly fade a little after you've swirled the new ink colors on - but I like this soft, graphite look.

Experiment with the sponges and swirling - the more colors the better!

 

Comments

[Eileen M]

Gorgeous!

[Lillian Clark]

I love the butterfly stamps, such a nice sign of summer.