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Bright Blots, Black and Butterflies

I love creatng small makes such as ATC's and another love is creating my own background papers to use for such projects.  Today I was tidying up some paint supplies and noticed a lot of my paint bottles were pretty much empty so I decided to simply add some water to them and use up the last drops of paint.  I simply dribbled and poured out the now runny paint on some A3 Sized Papers and then pressed others into these to absorb up the wet paint.  This blotting messy fun took me back to my childhood.





Knowing it's Spring in the Northern Hemisphere I was inspired by the birds and the bees who are busy at this time of year and selected an assortment of Collage Sheets to play with.  Those that know me, probably guessed that the butterflies would win out!

I then cut down some of my papers into ATC Size Pieces.



I grabbed a stencil and black ink to add further marks to the backgrounds before adding some butterflies and text.

The text was stamped on white paper so I used my Gelatos to color.


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