Materials I used:White cardstock, cheap crayola markers, acetate report folder, spray water bottle, paint brush, heat gun, prisma colored pencils, sewing machine, rub-on flourish, green and turquoise cardstock, black stazon, Mark's Finest Paper TAKE A PEEK butterfly, scissors and Aleene's tacky glue.
I started by drawing on the inside of the report folder with a variety of green markers.
I then sprayed the folder with water and shut it. This is what it looked like when the folder was shut.
I opened the report folder. There are puddles of color. I placed a piece of white cardstock on the puddles. There were lots of white spaces that didn't get color. That is the look I wanted.
I then scribbled on the report folder with blue markers.
How the blues looked sprayed and smashed.
I turned the paper sideways so that I could place only the WHITE part into the blue puddles.
It overlapped just a little.
I let the white cardstock with greens and blues on it dry. I then scribbled on the folder with orange, red, yellow and pink markers.
I sprayed a drop of water on the folder.
Using the folder as my paint pallet, I mixed and matched colors. I then randomly painted splotches onto the cardstock.
I then let the paper dry completely before going on to the next step. I used my heat gun to make it dry faster.
I then took my yellow prisma colored pencil and added some yellow outlines to the flowers.
After outlining with yellow I outlined some flowers with an orange prisma colored pencil.
I then took my black prisma colored pencil and added centers to some of the poppies.
Next, I took my white prisma colored pencil and added highlights to the black centers.
I then took a light green prisma colored pencil and randomly drew grass blades. I let some of the blades draw over the flowers. That gave the illusion of depth.
I then added a slightly darker green followed by an even darker green.
I layered the white cardstock with the green and turquoise cardstock and put on a white cardstock base. I used my sewing machine to do a decorative stitch around the edges.
Of course I had to add a butterfly. I stamped the butterfly from the Mark's Finest Papers set called TAKE A PEEK. I stamped it on white cardstock with black stazon. I heat set the ink with my heat gun. I then just scribbled over the butterfly with yellow, pink and orange colored pencils. I didn't have to color in the lines because I was going to cut it out.
I cut my butterflies out this way. I cut around the butterfly and leave the top at the antennea for last.
I then cut away the part that is next to the wings on both sides.
I cut the inside V last. I leave a little extra room so that I don't accidentaly do an anteneaectimy.
I fix the little extra white by coloring it in with my black prisma colored pencil.
I then make a cut on both wings that goes from the outer wing towards the body, but I stop before I hit the body.
The cuts allow me to bend the wings to give them dimension.
I used rub-ons for the butterfly's flight trail.
I cut out the red flourish so that it would be easier to rub on.
I then glued the butterfly on.
