Tuesday with Tara {take 247} Grungy Butterflies
Happy Tuesday! Today I’m sharing a throwback post that features some fun, grungy butterflies that fit our Day 12 theme for our Random Acts of Cardness: Flutterby. I hope you’ll play along and show us cards with flying things!
Here’s my throwback card from 2016…
Today’s card is inspired by Tim Holtz again, this time a more recent project, the 12 tags of 2016 – March. I changed things up a little bit as I’d already played around with a background and decided it would look good behind a grungy butterfly frame 🙂
My background was actually done when I was making this tag with Distress Crayons, and is a similar technique, but I took a tag with gesso and dry embossed it before adding color. I like the texture you get with the color pooling in the debossed parts of the image. I used mini butterfly dies (movers & shapers) which shows off more of my grungy cardboard frame, that had multiple inks splattered and rubbed on it.
My card background started as an oops… I was using black gesso and dribbled some on the kraft 5×7. I then decided to just dry brush (aka clean off my brush!) on the card and it turned into a fun looking background perfect for this image!
Have a creative week!
Inky hugs,
Tara
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Happy Tuesday! Today we’ve got another fun blog hop, this one we are calling ‘Distress to Impress’ because all of our projects feature Tim Holtz’s Distress Crayons! We will be sharing with you some fun ideas for these great coloring tools… and maybe you’ll even WIN a new set by leaving comments on all the blogs along the way! You can also get yourself some 
I trimmed the background to fit on a square card and used one of the crayons along the edges of the piece to finish it off, again just blending with my fingers. I think the finger blending worked so well because of the gesso underneath. Love it!
