Coral Butterfly Tutorial

Hi friends! I went for my first bicycle ride in a long time yesterday, it was wonderful. It made me think of a bike themed journal page of mine. It is Monday and a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. This week our challenge is 'don't abandon the coral', inspired by Tim Holtz new Abandoned Coral Distress colour. But you can also be inspired by coral in general, or perhaps do a beach or sea themed project. 

I worked in my Small Creative Journal this week and had fun making a very coral textured page. I only added a little Cracked Pistachio, otherwise, this page is pretty much all Abandoned Coral. I liked the cheerful feeling of this page, perfect for spring and for the theme of my page. Art journaling to me is not only about the words, you can say a lot with colour, images and design too. To create the background, I used Tim's new Number Blocks stamps and a fun resist technique. I took stepped photos, and as usual the technique works for many different types of projects.

The lovely Abandoned Coral, which was the new Distress colour for February. I used the ink and the paint on my page, not the spray. There is also a marker and a reinker.

Coat a page with gesso and let dry. Start by clear embossing all the numbers with clear powder. Since they are rectangular, they are pretty simple to line up, but don't worry it if is not perfect.

 Here you can maybe see the embossing a little better.

Paint the page with Distress Paint, don't worry about how it looks at this stage, it is about to get better. Leave to dry for a while, it is hard to say how long since it depends on the climate where you live, but test on a small area first, If you wipe off the paint too early, you can always just add more.

Wipe the paint off from the embossed areas with a cloth. If the paint dries completely, it will dry on top of the embossing, but if you start wiping too early, you'll wipe off paint from the non-embossed areas too. 

Stamp with a mesh stamp and Abandoned Coral paint. Immediately clean your stamp, otherwise the paint dries on the stamp.

Stamp sentiments on the page. Stamp the dot background stamp with Cracked Pistachio paint, again immediately clean the stamp.

To add more texture, I applied Texture Paste through an alphabet stencil in a few places. Let dry.

Splatter a tiny bit of Brushed Pewter Distress Spray Stain on the page.

Let's make the butterflies too. Stamp them on watercolour paper and white emboss (or use clear powder). 

Smear Abandoned Coral and Cracked Pistachio Distress Inks on your craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush. I also added a little Iced Spruce to the body and feelers. Wipe the ink off from the embossed areas. 

Cut out the butterflies and add some number rub-ons to them. If you made a card, you can shape the wings and only glue the butterflies down at the body, but since I was working in my journal, I kept them flat.

 

The multi-layered background is very interesting, but also flat, which works great in a journal. The resist letters add a nice texture and the paint stamping adds a fun extra layer. I also rubbed some numbers on the background.

I used Small Talk Stickers as additional sentiments. Love the sayings in this sticker pad.

Here you can maybe see the texture of the embossed letters a little better.

 Love this sentiment stamp, and the font is great.

I die cut some tiny butterflies from silver Deco Sheet. These sheets are so shiny, you have to see them in real life.

And the main sentiment stamp, which I thought worked well together with the butterflies.

I hope you have time to join us this week in our coral challenge. As always, one random participant wins a $50 gift voucher to Simon Says Stamp.

Thank you for the visit! Enjoy your week!

Happy stamping!!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz PERSPECTIVE	Tim Holtz LIFE QUOTES	Tim Holtz NUMBER BLOCKS	Tim Holtz DOTS AND FLORAL	Tim Holtz WATERCOLOR
Tim Holtz MESH AND LINEN	Tim Holtz SIMPLE SAYINGS cms155	Tim Holtz Sizzix TINY SHAPES	Tim Holtz Stencil TYPO	Dyan Reaveley SMALL CREATIVE JOURNAL Ranger
Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER Inkssentials	Tim Holtz Distress Ink ABANDONED CORAL	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad CRACKED PISTACHIO	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK ICED SPRUCE	Tim Holtz Ranger Clear DISTRESS EMBOSSING INK
Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Ranger TEXTURE PASTE	Tim Holtz Distress Paint CRACKED PISTACHIO	Tim Holtz Distress Paint ABANDONED CORAL	Tim Holtz Distress Paint TATTERED ROSE
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain BRUSHED PEWTER	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Ranger Embossing Powder SUPER FINE CLEAR	Tim Holtz Idea-ology SMALL TALK Stickers	Tim Holtz NUMBERS REMNANT RUBS
Tim Holtz Idea-ology DECO SHEETS	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE	Tim Holtz Sizzix BASE TRAY
Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger Large 2 oz MISTER BOTTLE	Ranger Inkssentials US HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL
Ranger Inkssentials EUROPEAN HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 4 x 4.5	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3	Simon Says Stamp White FLOUR SACK TOWEL

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