Summer Butterfly Postage Card | Imagine Blog

Hello crafty friends! I was inspired by some Summer butterflies I saw in our backyard, I made this Summer butterfly postage card. For today’s project, we will do some watercoloring with Memento inks and stamping with VersaColor ink pad and VersaFine ink pad. It is a fun technique to stretch the use of the ink pads.

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 15-20 minutes

Directions:

Step 1
Cut out a piece of 140 lb watercolor paper into 5 inch x 7 inch and place it in the stamping tool.
Stamp the butterfly image on the watercolor paper with VersaFine Onyx Black ink pad.

Step 2
Dab some of the Memento inks on the craft mat and pick the color up with the water brush and start painting the butterflies and background. I used wet on wet watercoloring technique on this project.

Paint the butterfly with the Memento Tangelo ink and Cantaloupe ink. Dry the watercolor paint with a craft heat gun.

Paint the background around the butterflies with the Memento Summer Sky ink and Teal Zeal ink. Dry the whole panel with a craft heat gun.

Step 3
When the whole panel dried well, cut it with the Postage Stamp cover plate die.

Stamp some texture image from the Going Postal stamp set randomly on the background panel using VersaFine Onyx Black.

Step 4
On a piece of white cardstock, stamp the sentiment words using the VersaColor Turquoise ink pad.

Dry the ink with a craft heat gun and fussy cut it into word strips with scissors or paper trimmer.

Use a fineliner archival ink pen, draw the outline around the word strips.

Step 5
Use the On Point Glue to add the background panel to the card base. And then, add the words on the card.

It’s done.

This Summer butterfly postage card is flat enough and fits inside a regular envelope. I hope this project gives you inspiration today on how to use your ink pads not only for stamping but also for watercoloring as well.

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