BLOSSOM LIKE A BUTTERFLY ARTIST TRADING BLOCK by Carol

Hello, everyone! Carol here again to share a mixed media tutorial with you. Today I'll show you how I made this artist trading block.

Using various ARTplorations stencils and acrylic paints and my small gelli plate I made a mood board.

I die cut a piece slightly larger than needed and cropped to size.

Using Archival inks and the co-ordinating butterfly stamps, I overstamped my piece.

With black archival ink I stamped some definition using a few grunge stamps.

I attached the piece to my block (a recycled stamp block which I'd already painted with black gesso) using gel medium.

I stamped and heat embossed the sketchy butterfly onto a leftover piece of moodboard and attached it using silicon gel.

For the reverse side of the block, I die cut a piece from the card I'd used to roll off the waste paint, then used archival ink to stamp around the edges. The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed with black EP.

Here's the finished project again:

I hope you've been inspired by today's tutorial, I'll see you again next month.

Products used:

• ARTplorations stencils - Shower of Flutters, Bloom Factory, Foiled, Foiled Again, Nestled Circles, Bubbles, and Gridlocked.
• STAMPlorations stamps - Mixed Media Grunge, Trendy Butterflies, and Blossom Like a Butterfly.
• Others - acrylic paints, gel medium, Wendy Vecchi embossing powder, black gesso.