Weekender with Wanda – Go where your heart takes you!
Hello crafty friends! Welcome back to the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp Blog! I’m so lucky that I get to see you every weekend. I really look forward to thinking up a new project to share with you, and I love hearing from you! I read every single comment you leave on my posts, and your kind words uplift me and inspire me! Thank you! Today is my post of the month in which I feature Tim Holtz and Ranger supplies. I try to challenge myself to do something new, or bold, or different. Well, for today’s card I went way out of my color comfort zone! I went big and super bright with lovely primary colors! I used some of my favorite dies from Tim Holtz and lots of ink pads. Let’s get started!
The focal point of my card is the beautiful Layered Butterfly Die from Sizzix by Tim Holtz. In the package with the die, you get a matching embossing folder that perfectly embosses the butterfly. To do this, you first cut out the butterfly. Then you put the cut out piece of paper into the embossing folder and run it back through your die cutting machine. Lovely! There is also a Bee and a Dragonfly version. My card base for today is deep black cardstock – a nice contrast to all that color.
Even though the butterfly is my focal point, I really LOVE how this heart came out. It just pops off the page. There is a lot of texture going on in this card. I decided to add more by covering my leaves with Rock Candy Distress Glitter too! (more is more)! In this close up you can see all the different mediums I used. I started by die cutting all of the pieces out of Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper. For the heart, I sprayed it with three layers of Candied Apple Distress Stain and let it dry. For the butterfly I used Squeezed Lemonade, Carved Pumpkin and Ripe Persimmon Ink pads and a sponge dauber to put the color down. The leaves were inked with Twisted Citron and Cracked Pistachio. YUM! (Ink color links at the bottom of the page!)
Once all the pieces were dry I used a small sponge dauber and Black Soot Distress Ink and edged all of the parts. Then I used Picket Fence Distress Paint and the Tim Holtz Splatter Brush to add white flecks. This was a really fun project!
In this photo, you can better see the glitter. The embossing on the blue layer was made using the Tim Holtz Typewriter Embossing Folder. Then I layered two colors of blue ink over it. Since these are all primary colors they just pop all together!! This is not my normal color palette but it’s so rich and happy. I might have to do more of this!
At first the background was created with embossed watercolor paper. Then, I added Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Inks to the paper and wet it all with my water brush. When it was dry, I splattered clean water over it to remove some of the ink. This is a great technique! Then I splattered Salty Ocean ink on it a second time – to build up the layers of color. This sounds harder than it is, truly! The trick is to let your paper dry in between the different ink layers.
My accents are from the Tim Holtz Stickers lines – Big Chat and Small Talk. I love those stickers! They are perfect for any project – and they come in white or black.
Here are some in-process photos. In the first photo you can see all my pieces ready to ink. I used the Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Hearts, and the Garden Greens Dies. These are a couple of my go to items in my Tim Holtz stash. In the middle two photos you will see some close up shots of the background layer. The bottom two photos show the finished pieces ready to assemble. I trimmed the center of the butterfly since I was going to layer the heart over that part.
One of my tips is to assemble your card on your craft sheet or table first until you get it the way you want it. In this next photo all the pieces are loose. So, when I get it the way I want it I snap a quick picture with my iPhone before I take it apart again. That makes it easy to reference when I am gluing everything together! This works especially well when I am doing cards with flower clusters or leaves.
I like how some of the paint made a big splotch across the butterfly wing. This part always makes me nervous!! It’s the very last step after I’ve worked really hard on something… One bad speckle or splatter can mess up the whole thing!
Thank you for spending part of your weekend with me! Hope you have found something to inspire you to get crafty! Have a great weekend, and I’ll see you soon!
WOW…. this is beautiful! Love the texture and the mixed media on the card. FABULOUS!
That butterfly is really beautiful!
This is am awesome piece! Love the colours and your tips!
Great card! :)
Such a fun card!!, love all the different elements and textures!!
love the bright colors
Wow! Love it
Lovely cards so pretty colours. Thanks for sharing.
Just gorgeous!
Wowza, Wanda, this piece if just stunning! And what fun! And thanks for the inspiration to get really artsy … I’m off 3 days in a row next week and this is what I’m going to do!. :-)
The bright colors are just so pretty!!!
Such a gorgeous textured and shimmery card. Well done Wanda!
Totally beautiful Wanda!! Thank you for sharing.
So gorgeous. The colors really pop. Thanks for the great project ideas.
Love the glitter with these vibrant colors, such a pretty butterfly card!
Love that blue together with the yellow butterfly, so
pretty! :)
Gorgeous colors! Love the splatters!
VERY PRETTY WANDA!!! ;) LOVE the heart on the butterfly! ;)
This is really a pretty little work of art….deserving to be framed!
Great color with nice highlights!
Beautiful card!
Fabulous colours and textures! Love that glitter!
Absolutely beautiful! Love the colour and texture.
Wow, LOVE the color!!
Such bold and vibrant colors. LOVE the butterfly and heart. Well done!!!
Gorgeous card! I love the colors and all of the embossing.
Beautiful colors and textures on your cards.
Fabulous card, Wanda! Love the rock candy glitter on this project. All the texture and mediums that you have used truly add to this finished card. Love it! :)
A grand butterfly on this creation with the lovely mixed media – thanks Wanda for sharing – another super creation by you!
I love all those bright, happy colors and all the texture on the butterfly! TFS
Wanda, I love this bright beautiful card! It’s amazing what a little paint, ink and texture can do to a plain white piece of cardstock! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful! I love the bright colors they really pop off the page. So pretty
Love this! Thanks for the great tip to lay out your project on the craft sheet and then take a photo. I always struggle with coming up with the “just right” placement of elements.
Wonderfully distressed & embellished Butterfly creation. Have a Bee-utiful day!
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Gorgeous! Love those bright colors – what a pick-me-up this would be for the recipient!
Beautiful!
Very nice! Love all the detail.
Such a clean card, even if there is no white spot. Love it.
Just beautiful. Those bright, bold colors really make the card stand out. Thanks for sharing.
This is GORGEOUS! Love the finished project!
Fabulous card! I love everything about it.
i enjoy the bold colors and then the striking dark outlines to tone them and set them off at the same time.
So artistic & gorgeous! Love the unusual color palette, too!
Wow!!! This is STUNNING!!!! Love it!!
A wealth of texture on this card!
Wow!!! I have no words to say how I love your card!!! Absolutely gorgeous!!!
Fun bright card. Love all the textures.
Beautiful card!
Fantastic card, I love love these bright colors. Like candy))