Floating Watercolors-Butterfly Punched Pansies

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

1. Gather your supplies and cover your work surface ( Figure 1)
2. Decide what colors of reinkers you would like to use for your pansies.  Add drops of reinker colors onto your palette.
3. Punch out two butterflies out of Shimmery White card stock using Butterfly punch. (Figure 2)
4. Spritz first punched butterfly with spritzer bottle filled with water.  You want the butterfly to be fairly wet.
5. 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)
6. Clean brush in container of water and pick up 2^nd color.  Dot 2^nd color onto the wet butterfly.  The 2^nd color will spread over the 1^st color mixing as it goes. Add 3^rd 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)
7. Repeat the above for the 2^nd punched butterfly.  Set aside to dry. (Figure 5)
8. 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)
9. With a coordinating marker, draw lines out from the brad (Figure 7)
10. Curl up edges of petals using a skewer, small dowel, pencil, paper piercing tool etc