Krafty Tips and Tutes! Rainbow Butterflies!!

Hi everyone!

Krafty Girl Melany here with your krafty Tips and Tuts of the week.

Today, you're going to follow me on my Rainbow art journal process. Here's the final result of our page:

Here's what you'll need:

-The Butterfly Dreams stamp set

-Those 6 ink cubes: Charming Chartreuse, Ruby Red, Pumpkin Patch, Purple Petunia, Yummy  Yellow and Mermaid Melody

-Wicked Black ink pad to stamp your butterflies

-The Beautiful Burlap stencil

-The Rainbow Dots

-A blender tool

-Coordinating Copics (or your favorite alcohol marker brand)

-Xpress it cardstock, for the butterflies (not shown on the pics)

-A sewing machine

-A black pen

-Some coordinating washi tape

-Bristol paper

-A black spray ink

-Perfect pearls mixed with water

-A brush

First, I colored all my butterflies with rainbow colors. Then, I sew accross them with black thread.

Now, it's time for some rainbow blending! I like to blend on smooth Bristol cardstock.

Let's get inky! I decided to use the same color order as the Rainbow Dots.

To get a real good blend, I work my inks out a lot! I usually put at least 3 coats.

The Krafty Kolours can be used tone on tone and it works like a charm. Here, I used the Beautiful Burlap stencil!

I love the result! To make it pop a bit more, I splattered some black ink and some Perfect Pearls.

Now, it's time for our sentiment. I wanted it to be the main focus, so I stamped it on white and just inked the border of it with my Wicked Black ink pad.

I added some black accent here and there with my washi tape and black sewing.

This washi tape is a perfect ledge for my sentiment. I wanted some more black so I made a "thread nest". Then, I glued some fun foam behind the sentiment to make it pop up the page even more.

For the butterflies, I wanted them to look like they were flying, so I bent them a bit, put glue in the middle and fun foam on each wing.

Again, for a stronger tone on tone look, I glued my butterflies on it's own color.

With my black gel pen, I added some doodles.

I wanted to emphasize the tone on tone look even more with my embellishments, so I used my Rainbow Dots and to make them pop, I outlined them.

There we go! I hope you'll give the Rainbow art journal page a try, it's so much fun! You can also use all these techniques on scrapbook pages and cards! Can't wait to see yours.

Have a nice day!