Butterfly Basics With Melon Mambo For #GDP045

This is my entry for Global Design Project #GDP045 this week.  I am making it at the 11th hour with final entries due very soon!  This week’s challenge is a color challenge using Melon Mambo, Smoky Slate and Basic Black.  Typically I would have chosen to start with the Pop of Pink DSP and most likely a more graphic style of stamp.  This time I went a different direction.  There are some fabulous ideas and designs in the challenge this week.  I highly recommend you hop over to the Global Design Project and take a look or click on the icon below to see all the fabulous designs!

I wanted to challenge myself to do something different and experiment more with watercolor.  I found a really easy way to do watercolor on a card!  The background element was stamped in Smoky Slate on watercolor paper and then I took an aqua painter and just spread out the color some.  It is almost faultless watercoloring…at least for me!

I wanted a large floral element and of the stamp sets I have,Butterfly Basics had the element I needed.  It was an extra benefit that this set also coordinates well with the butterfly in Watercolor Wings!  I wanted a little bling and used the Metallic Enamel Dots in silver and some retired silver metallic cording.   It would have worked to use Metallic Silver thread, but that I didn’t have!  I thought a band of the silver cording was perfect to dress up the card a little.  It is hard to see on the image, but it really makes a pretty, shiny  touch.

Another detail you cannot see well is the 2 layers of butterflies I cut out in vellum that had been stamped with the same stamp used in the background.  Those dressed up the card as well.  A closeup of the vellum is shown below. 

Recipe

Papers: Basic Black, Smoky Slate, Melon Mambo, Watercolor paper
Stamps: Butterfly Basics, Watercolor Wings
Embellishments: Silver Metallic Enamel Dots, Silver Cording(retired)
Tools:Butterfly Framelits and Thinlets, Big Shot, Aqua Painter