Pansies Are Everywhere!-Butterfly Punched Pansies
The beauteous pansies rise in purple, gold, and blue, with tints of rainbow hue mocking the sunset skies. –Thomas John Ouseley, The Angel of the Flowers
Aren’t these pretty? And they are so easy to make. Use the Floating Watercolor Technique (without the embossing) and the Butterfly Punch from Stampin’ Up!
Here’s how:
You need:
Butterfly punch
Shimmery White card stock
reinkers and palette-I use the plastic lid to a dip container
–pansy colors: purples, blues, yellows, oranges, mauves, burgundy
colored brad for center of pansy, Paper Piercing Tool and Mat
coordinating marker
Aquapainter or small tipped paint brush
spritzer bottle filled with water
container of water to clean brush
something to cover your work surface-you will be working with water
Floating Watercolor Technique
- Gather your supplies and cover your work surface ( Figure 1)
- Decide what colors of reinkers you would like to use for your pansies. Add drops of reinker colors onto your palette.
- Punch out two butterflies out of Shimmery White card stock using Butterfly punch. (Figure 2)
- Spritz first punched butterfly with spritzer bottle filled with water. You want the butterfly to be fairly wet.
- Pick up 1st reinker color from your palette using an Aquapainter or a wet small tipped brush. Dot color onto the wet butterfly. Once the color comes into contact with the water, it will spread over the wet butterfly. (Figure 3)
- Clean brush in container of water and pick up 2nd color. Dot 2nd color onto the wet butterfly. The 2nd color will spread over the 1st color mixing as it goes. Add 3rd color if desired. You can spritz more water onto the butterfly to help move the color around if desired. Set aside to dry. (Figure 4)
- Repeat the above for the 2nd punched butterfly. Set aside to dry. (Figure 5)
- Once dry (this may take a little while-remember, the paper is pretty wet), layer one butterfly over the other. Punch a hole in the center of the two butterflies using the paper piercing tool and mat and add a colored brad. (Figure 6)
- With a coordinating marker, draw lines out from the brad (Figure 7)
- Curl up edges of petals using a skewer, small dowel, pencil, paper piercing tool etc