Karen Burniston Designer Challenge - Day 2!

Hi all! Today I'm sharing my second project for Karen Burniston's Designer Challenge. This time I decided to do a summery tag with butterflies - another one of my favorite things about summer!

I just bought another set of Ranger's Distress crayons and thought it would be fun to create a pretty background using Elizabeth Craft Designs' Soft Finish Cardstock. I took a couple pics along the way to show you how I made it:

I started by cutting a tag using the tag die from ECD's Tags and More 1 set. I used Karen Burniston's Swirly Flourish stencil with texture paste to create the background. After it dried, I covered the whole tag with clear gesso. I wasn't sure how the cardstock would react to the crayons and I thought it would be a good idea to seal it.

 Next, I scribbled various colors over the tag.

I spritzed the tag lightly with water and used my finger to move the color around. I added more water in areas where I wanted to remove the color.

I wanted to tone down the color a bit and soften it, so I spritzed randomly with Picket Fence Distress Ink and rubbed a bit of white paint here and there. When it was dry, I added Chicken Wire die cuts that I'd embossed with silver embossing powder, and a bit of cheesecloth. I cut butterflies from ECD's Rosebud cardstock using dies from Karen's Butterfly Pivot Card and Butterfly Accessories sets, layered them together, sanded them lightly, then adhered them to the card. Finally, I stamped one of my favorite sentiments from Tim Holtz, cut it out, and added it to the card with foam dots.

I hope you enjoyed my quick tutorial! The supplies I used can be found at Elizabeth Crafts Designs and Simon Says Stamp via the links below. SSS is having a big sale on Tim Holtz products right now too! You can save 20% when you use the code TimRocks. It's a great time to stock up!

Karen Burniston Butterfly Pivot Card Karen Burniston Butterfly Accessories Dies Pop it Ups Chicken Wire Die Stage it Stencil - Swirly Flouris Elizabeth Craft Designs Tags and More 1 Soft Finish Cardstock 8.5" X 11" 270gr /100Lb 10 pack (PSF102) Soft Finish Cardstock, Rosebud Kaiser Scrapbook PEARL 50 Count Self Adhesive Pearls SB713 Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 1 TDBK47902 Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2016 PONDERINGS CMS252 Tim Holtz 9 GRID ACRYLIC BLOCKS Set to Cling Stamps 521736 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad PICKED RASPBERRY Ranger Summer TIM34995 Ranger Embossing Powder SILVER EPJ37361 Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Powder CLEAR 1.5 Oz Jar EPL45700 Ranger Inkssentials MINI COLLAGE GLUE STICK Adhesive IWT44666 Beacon 3 IN 1 ADVANCED CRAFT GLUE Crystal Clear Instant Grab Fast Dry Glue 00210 Ranger TEXTURE PASTE 4oz INK44444 Dina Wakley Ranger CLEAR GESSO 4 OZ Jar Media MDM46424 Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE Media MDA41771 Tim Holtz Idea-ology SANDING GRIP Block Tool Sand TH92482 Kaiser Scrapbook PEARL 50 Count Self Adhesive Pearls SB713

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Speaking of butterflies - here's one of my faves that I spotted last week. The swallowtails are so gorgeous!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Be sure and check out Karen's blog tomorrow. She has a super cool new card technique, plus tons of inspiration from the whole team!