Butterfly Spectacle and Watercolors
by Jean Okimoto

 

The new Butterfly Spectacle is just too great to save for a warm, sunny summer day!  A cold, sunny Seattle spring day will suffice.  There are so many ways to use Butterfly Spectacle – with watercolors, vellum, powdered pigments, or layered over printed papers.  Hi, Jean Okimoto here, with a quick watercolored backdrop for this beautiful addition to the Memory Box collection of butterfly dies.  

Paint a square of watercolor paper with diluted Kaleidacolor dye ink refills.  Air-dry it for a few minutes, then spritz it lightly with water and heat-set it with a dry iron on the cotton setting. 

Cut it with the 3-1/2″ square die from the Square Basics set.  Cut Butterfly Spectacle from white cardstock.  Trim around it with the 3-¾” Square Basics die.  

Attach Scor-Tape behind gold mirror cardstock and cut the antennae from the Morning Garden Butterflies die set.  

Score, cut and fold a 5-½” square card of white cardstock.  Assemble the card.  Add lavender gem stickers.

Wasn’t that quick and easy?  Paint a supply of watercolor paper and have it ready for your next project.  I like painting squares of watercolor paper – about 6″x6″ – so I can select the ideal section of colors for my projects.  Having a square also means you’ll be able to rotate the waterolored background up to 4 times to find that perfect blend of pretty colors!

If you’re in the Seattle area this weekend – join us for my last class of the quarter at Impress.  It’s ASIAN DESIGNS…SIMPLY STATED – a great way to use your stash of Asian artpapers and dies from Memory Box and Poppystamps.  See you there!

Next quarter’s classes have some quirky titles – but I promise they’ll be colorful, fun and filled with techniques and great ways to use your supplies.  Enjoy and splurge with your 10% shopping discount too.  Here’s what’s coming up:

             –    RAINING CATS & DOGS on April 8

            –    GOING GREEN on April 15

            –    SUMMER HEARTS on May 13 and Memorial Day, May 29

            –    SURF & TURF on June 3

            –    SUMMER BLISS on June 17 and July 4

Thanks for stopping by – join us for Donna’s great project tomorrow!

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