My teabag art for today - the wonder of a butterfly

My teabag art for today -the wonder of a butterfly.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with gouache and watercolor and details added with Prisma watercolor pencils, posca pens and black ink pen.

My teabag art for today is a piece of mixed media

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag unprimed and painted with watercolor.  I embroidered some flowers with lilac DMC thread with irridescent sequins and pearl bead centers.  I stitched the word "Create" on my sewing machine on muslin, added some lilac cotton crochet yarn, a piece of green thread and half of a butterfly from a napkin that had been glued to some muslin with gel medium.

New Watercolor of a Butterfly titled "Transformed"

I decided I wanted to try my hand at a butterfly pen and ink with a watercolor wash.  I wanted to have a lost edge somewhere so decided to leave the left edge of the wing to fade into the background.

I used bold, bright colors of Orange, red orange, lime green, yellow and a touch of blue.

What I find that is the easiest for me to do is to draw a 5X7 rectangle on a scratch piece of paper.  Then draw my image within the rectangle so I know where I want the placement of my image.  Then I scribble graphite onto the back of the image, line the rectangle up with my 5X7 watercolor paper, and then using a stylus, I trace over my image and transfer it to my watercolor paper.  That saves me from erasing on my watercolor paper and disturbing the fibers.

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Claire & LaLa

Another layout of my daughter-in-law and my granddaughter Claire just finished.  Products used:

Pink Paislee papers

Kaszazz Mesh stamp

Kaisercraft "Flutter" stamp

Cheery Lynn Designs butterfly dies

Sizzix Heart Dies

Baker's twine

Ruler ribbon and striped ribbon

Memento London Fog ink

Tattered Angels glimmer mist in Vintage Pink, Mustard Seed, and Silver Sugar

We R Memory Keepers Tab punch

Typewriter

It's Not about the happy ending, It's about the Story" feminine scrapbook layout using Kaisercraft

This is a scrapbook layout I did of my granddaughter Suri using the Kaisercraft Paper Collection called "Honey Chai".  I called it:    "Its Not about the happy ending, It's about the Story" also using, paper doily, crocheted doily, fussy cut flowers, organza ribbon, butterflies, texture paste, drywall tape, distressed flowers, sewing thread, and edge punch.