In A Butterfly Mood

 

I've been drawn to butterflies recently.

These were so fun to make.  I used a fun technique to remove some of the ink from the stamp before stamping and also added a little doodling to add a bit of whimsy.

 

In this week's PTI Make It Monday video Betsy used a comb to remove some of the ink from her stamps before stamping to create texture. I knew we didn't have a comb in our house.  I brush my hair, not comb it, and my sweet husband has no hair to comb ;)

So I needed to think of an alternative.  I tried pressing the stamp onto impression plates, it worked but didn't look all that great when stamped.  Then I tried dragging different dies over the stamp like the picket fence and the pointed end of the heart border die.  Again, it worked, but didn't give a great result.  Then I remembered a cool die cut from one of my 12 kits from last year.  It was a leaf die cut that had very separated, pointy leaves.  While I was pulling that out I saw this tree die cut that had a doily pattern to it.  I tried that and I though it looked so pretty!

 

CAS(E) this sketch

 

 

Make It Monday

 

What I ended up doing in the end was stamp the butterfly in the lighter ink color first. Then I inked up the butterfly again with the darker shade. I pressed the die cut onto the stamp to remove some of the ink and then stamped right over top of the lighter color. After that I added some doodles with a black and white pen.

 

 

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Cardstock: PTI White
Stamps: PTI Beautiful Butterflies, Birthday Style, Polka Dot Basics II
Ink: PTI Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise, Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet, Versafine Onyx
Dies: PTI Beautiful Butterflies
Other: Black Liner Pen, White Gel Pen