Be sure to watch my FREE Video tutorial below – it’s under 15 minutes and I think you’ll be amazed at how easy it is to watercolor these Brilliant Wings butterflies!!
Welcome! If you have found me from my YouTube video, welcome! I’m so glad you are here! If you are a regular blog viewer, I thank you for joining me today, too!! I am very excited about this super easy watercoloring technique and I hope you will give it a try!! I’ve watercolored the Brilliant Wings butterfly dies, and created this lovely birthday card with them!!
The background of my card is stamped with some leaves from the Splendid Day set.
Like I mentioned in the video, this is a 50th birthday card for my friend Tammy. I gave her the card last week at her birthday lunch!
You can experiment with ANY colors you like.. I’d suggest 2, 3 or 4 colors of reinkers for your color, and don’t forget that important wash of water over your butterfly FIRST before you add color, if you want it to spread and blend!! It’s like Magic!!!!
Above: Here is a fun tip for you .. when you want to use a greeting, but it just doesn’t fit where you need it to go, try inking parts of it separately to alter the actual shape or layout of the greeting! Can you see above where the Happy Birthday stamp is about 2-1/4″ long or so… but I needed it to be shorter.. so I inked Happy, and stamped that, then inked Birthday and stamped it underneath!! 🙂 yay!!
Final tip: I colored the Glittered Organdy ribbon with my Tahitian Tide Stampin’ Blend marker so it would match the card, then finished off the card with the Fine Sparkle Gems.
Slimline Butterfly Card:
Please check back TOMORROW for all the color combos and info for these bonus butterflies and more details on this card.
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Your butterflies are just beautiful! I love it when you go back to past stamp sets and use them again in new and different ways!
Haven’t had much luck with the watercolor technique, but I’m inspired to try again… many thanks.
I have to give this a try. It’s so pretty. I haven’t watercolored in a long time. Will take a look at my dies and give it a try. Thanks Patty for the inspiration.
Your work is always inspiring.
Hi Patty! Just wanted to let you know I think you meant your hashtag to be cardmaking not carmaking.
#stampinup #pattystamps #carmaking
Easy Watercolored Brilliant Wings Butterflies
thanks.. fixed it.. so weird because it defaulted to that!! LOL
Love the colors. Thanks for sharing
Patty, love your Butterfly technique!! The butterflies are very pretty 🌟! 💖💕 them!
Hope your eye is getting better Patty. Will be praying for 100% recovery