Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
Today's card is a revisit of the same Gina K Multi-Color Inking that I used in this Techniques Used post and in this butterflies card. I'm sharing the third look at this technique to share how different stamps will give you variations. I have three cards in this post today.
I'm not ashamed to admit this was the first time I used this big butterfly. It's from a Sixix & Tim Holtz exclusive for Michael's, that I've had for years. When I say shop your stash, I want you to know that I practice what I preach. I used the same butterfly stamp with its coordinating die on all three cards.
The two yellow/orange blend butterflies were created with Distress Inks in Pumpkin spice, Fossilized Amber, and Black Soot. I really love the way the Distress Inks work in this technique. The blue butterfly was inked with Gina K. ink in Ocean Mist, Tranquil Teal, and In the Navy.
I wanted the butterfly to be the focal point of these cards so I kept the backgrounds simple. I pulled some of my piercing dies from my stash and used the Taylored Expressions Dimond plate, the Concord and 9th Polka Dot and Stitched Hearts card front dies. I paired the bold butterflies with clean black and white sentiments.
To complete the cards, the yellow butterflies were popped up on foam tape, added to a white pierced panel, and matted with charcoal card stock. There was a panel of blue card stock in my stash that perfectly matched the blue butterfly, so I opted to use it for the mat. From there I finished all three cards similarly, adhering them to white card bases, sentiments were built with die cuts and a few word stickers from my stash, and a few gems were added for the finishing touches.
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