Butterfly Scribbles Tutorial

Hi crafters! I hope you are well and had a good Halloween. We had cousins visiting and the two little ones had a great time trick and treating. 

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This week we have a Any Holiday Occasion theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. The first Monday of a new month the team is showcasing products from a specific designer and this week it is Visible Image. You can find their gorgeous stamps here. You don't have to use their products to join, but it is always fun if you do. 

Since it is a new month, we also have a new guest designer and during November Laura Cassina will join us. Don't miss the project that she has created for you.

This project got its own life. I started out being inspired by the current week-long autumn school holiday, but then the art journal page and the gorgeous stamps took over and the colors went a little crazy, and no longer very autumn-like. So here is an autumn page, which turned into something of a spring page. I used the Visible Image Butterfly Effect stamp set. I worked in my 8x8 in my Square Creative Journal.

I started out with a page which had been gessoed and then painted with Distress Paints and misted heavily. Coat with clear gesso. The clear gesso gives more tooth for the Scribble Sticks, but you can also skip it.

Stamp with images from Visible Image Butterfly Effect.

Pick up the paint directly from the Scribble Sticks with a paint brush and start painting the design. Use water to blend.

Stamp with sentiments from the same stamp set. I really like these sentiments.

Add a lot of splatters with Scribble Sticks. Dip in water and flick a paint brush against the sticks. I added even more splatters later. Stamp with one of the texture stamps and teal ink.

These overlapping circles are cool and I like all the numbers and dots you see in clusters.

I used a white and a black pen to add some details to the butterfly. 

Don't worry if the stamping isn't perfect. I like how it picked up the background texture here.

The sentiments were stamped so that they overlap the circles.

Here you can see how visible the Scribble Stick splatters are. They don't disappear on the background.

I hope you will join us this week in our Any Holiday Occasion challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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