Happy Little Stampers Butterfly with Mixed Media

I was so excited to get my new Happy Little Stampers sets.

This butterfly is from the Butterfly Birthday set.

I stamped the butterfly with Archival ink on watercolor paper

and colored with my Zig markers.  After it dried, I fussy cut it out and

covered it with clear Wink of Stella.

I popped the butterfly over a snippet of a background piece done

with the saturated watercolor technique. 

Long after it was dry, I used the Ghosting Technique.

I place a stencil over the inked watercolor paper and spritzed with water.

Removed the stencil and blotted with a paper towel after a couple of seconds.

I love the way it turned out!

And it was the perfect background for this butterfly.

I'm going to take this over to the

Mixed Media Challenge #14

I've stamped the butterfly and heat embossed it.

Then colored it with Zig watercolor markers and added WOS.

The background uses inking and ghosting.

The  Simon Says Monday Challenge asks for

HOMEGROWN SUMMER

I've been working on growing a butterfly garden in my yard.

Since I used a snippet of watercolor paper and background, I'm off to

Pixie's Snippet Playground

I'm glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Butterfly Birthday (HLS)

Ink: Archival (Ranger)

Paper:  Watercolor (Strathmore and Arches 140 lb. cold pressed)

Other:  Zig Clean Brush Markers (50, 70), Clear Wink of Stella (Zig), Flourish Stencil (Tim Holtz), Re-inkers (SU)