April 2, 2018
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Elaineabella here with Marker Geek Monday! I hope you had a lovely Easter weekend, however you spent it. I spent a lot of time catching up with crafty projects!
Today I’d like to share a different way to create gorgeous butterfly wings for those new Tiny Townie Butterfly Girls. Click on through to check out my trio of cards and watch the video to see how they came together.
I’ve been demonstrating my love for using the Distress Oxide inkpads to create ink blended backgrounds. But that’s not the only way I like to use them! You may remember that last year I posted some inspiration on this blog for using Distress Oxide background pieces created using the ink smooshing technique to paper piece mermaid tails (HERE). I was looking at the gorgeous new Tiny Townie Butterfly Girl Babette stamp, and thought this would be the perfect way to create some gorgeous butterfly wings too! So I created some background pieces, stamped and paper pieced the wings and created some eye catching cards. I filmed the entire process so you can see how I did it and follow along if you would like!
Here are the three cards I created:
As you can see, I couldn’t resist carrying the Distress Oxides through to the background too!
The purple one is my favourite, with the galaxy effect going on. So pretty.
As you will see in the video below, I added a tiny amount of coloured pencil for the shadow under the top wings, to add some dimension and help separate them. So easy to do, and you have effortlessly gorgeous butterfly wings!
Watch me create the Distress Oxide wings and put together my cards in the video below or in HD over on YouTube.
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Elaineabella
amazing Elaine, i think i will have to try this technique it’s fab.
Loved the blue and purple Butterfly girl. Thanks for sharing.
I absolutely love the techniques you used. I am so inspired!!!!
Absolutely loved this video thanks for sharing.
These cards are stunning! I have to watch the video to see how you did this. I love the one with my favorite color in the whole wide world, yellow, because it’s my favorite but I love the other two also. You are so creative! I am going to have to watch the video. I like this stamp too. Oh how I wish I had more money so I could buy all of these stamps!
How cute are these! Thank you so much for sharing the technique! I finally purchased some of the Oxide Ink pads! Now I can give this a try! 🙂
Yay!! ~Elaineabella