A Jillian Vance Design: Mixed Media Butterfly

Hello and happy Wednesday AJVD fans! Rosemary here for my final guest designer spot here on the blog. I have had alot of fun and want to give a big thank you to Jillian and Bunny for having me! I'm sharing one more project that I created using the Fresh Florals: Cascade. My project today is a mixed media one. I hope you like it! I'm going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge of wild and wonderful.

I know alot of you have seen those beautiful butterfly stamps where half the butterfly is floral and the other half is a butterfly. When I saw the card that Bunny made using the Fresh Florals: Cascade stamp set and the Bold Butterfly die I immediately thought about doing something similar, but in a mixed media format. I don't have lots of photos to share because this is my second time really creating a mixed media piece and so I was just focused on getting it completed. I used the largest vignette box from Tim Holtz and painted it with white paint. I added some butterfly washi tape to the edges (you will see that in a second photo) and then sealed it with collage medium. I trimmed down a piece of patterned paper from P13 to fit the vignette box (I flipped the box over to use the back as the front) and then distressed the edges. I used a distress crayon in shabby shutters (green) around the edges of the paper and then used my finger to rub it in. Once I had the piece to my liking I adhered it to the box with collage medium and let it dry. Before adhering the paper to the box I did stamp the floral image on the paper with a very light gray ink. I then stamped the image on additional patterned paper and vellum. When I stamped the image on the vellum I used watermark ink and heat embossed with Kitsch Flamingo distress glaze. I then die cut each image and added distressing with my distress tool and more Shabby Shutters distress crayon. By the time I finished the collage medium had dried and so I added some crackle texture paste and then sprinkled on Kitsch Flamingo and Fossilized Amber distress glazes. Most of it did not stick, but I liked the look of just a hint of the distress glaze. Once that was dry I heated the distress glaze. I finished by adding some distress watermark ink, sprinkling on more distress glaze in the Kitsch Flamingo and Fossilized Amber and then heat setting.

Here is a side view where you can see a hint of the washi tape and some of the crackle and distress glaze, as well as the layers of the butterfly. I die cut just the body of the Beautiful Butterfly from pink patterned paper and then trimmed off what I didn't need. The body was adhered with collage medium and left to dry. I then added the layers of the butterfly placing the patterned paper one down first. I secured it only where it met the body. The same was done with the vellum layer. I had some large rhinestone embellishments, so I decided to add those to the body. I even rubbed them with some of the Shabby Shutters distress crayon! The finishing element was the sentiment from the Bold Butterfly stamp set that I embossed on vellum with the Kitsch Flamingo distress glaze. Shabby Shutters distress crayon was rubbed on the piece, as well.

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