Fusion Card Challenge #4 - Butterflies !!!..

Fusion Card Challenge #4 - Butterflies !!!..

Thanks to some of my Creative friends,through whom I had come across The Fusion Card page on face book.... I saw the challenge and that too with butterflies was going on,I just couldn't stop my self from not being part of it.......

This has been mine first ever card making  challenge....and I'm kinda nervous....but the best part about this challenge is, that there are no restrictions about the materials or

 techniques to use....

So instead of one I ended up making 3-4 of them...which will be posted separately so that I can link them to challenge as well....

Being greedy!!!...I know..

Another thing ...what I love about this challenge is that I get to play around with one of my all time favorite .....

 " BUTTERFLIES" r Flutterby's as I call them...........beautiful,colorful,dainty-darlings.

As it is shown in the picture of Fusion here....I could have either used just the sketch or the butterfly photo inspiration....Else I can complicate my life a little bit more and combine/FUSE both the ideas  together....And guess what,I took the tougher part.....

It really took me long to conceive an idea that was fun to be executed ....And the  visualization was an effort,....even my daughter enjoyed water coloring along with me....

I really wanted to do something different, so instead of using scrap-booking paper I made my own background paper...

...I drew the butterflies with masking fluid/masking gum on water color paper...

...once the masking gum was dry ,I splashed water on top....

....and then added my water colors in RAINBOW shades.....

.....dividing my paper into 2 parts by WARM and COOL colors.....

Love the way water color merges into each other.....

Once every thing is dry on paper ,then the Fun begins....

...peeling the masking gum from your paper....you just need to rub a little on a corner , and it will start coming off like threads ,when the dried masking fluid is out ,it leaves crisp and clear white out lines.

But the hanging butterfly in the circle is different....

here I did the 'wet on wet water coloring' first...then out line the butterfly by a permanent marker....

 

Combine two such butterflies together ,so I can add antennas and a fishing thread to hang the butterfly in the middle of the circle.....

I drew and colored the butterflies on one side and left the other side white, but out lined it with marker on both the sides....cut it with paper cutter and glued  the black and white side of the butterflies just in the center .....so that I can bend the wings a bit giving it 3D look.....

Last but not the least ,all handy work literally.................................................Not BAD!!!