Spotted Butterflies

Parchment Craft Magazine 
2015 March issue

Spotted Butterflies delicately coloured using Spectrum Noir Alcohol Pens & Blender pen 

You will need
Parchment craft paper
Graphite Pencil, Ruler & Eraser.
Pergamano White Gel Pen
Pergamano Grid 28
Embossing & Perforating Mats
PCA Uni Bold Perforating Tool
PCA Small Ball Tool
PCA Medium Ball Tool
PCA Micro Ball Tool
PCA Micro Sun Tool
Siesta Small Half Circle Tool
Parchment Craft Scissors
Spectrum Noir Pen Orange OR1
Spectrum Noir Blender Pen
Sakura Stardust Gel Pen Orange 705

Attach the parchment over the pattern using a low tack tape.

Trace the outline border lightly using a graphite pencil & ruler.

NOTE: Trace lightly as you will need to erase this line later.

Trace the rest of the design plus 3D wings (On a separate piece of parchment) with a Pergamano White Gel Pen’ try to achieve fine neat lines.

Emboss all traced lines with a PCA Micro Ball Tool
Emboss around the outer edge of the 3D wings using a PCA Micro Sun Tool.

Grid Perforate - Pergamano Grid 28
Secure your parchment onto the grid right side facing up
Perforate the grid the ‘Malteze’ grid pattern with the hearts and around the greeting.

Border Grid Embossing
Attach your design onto a Pergamano Grid 28 right side facing down carefully aligning your border pencil line.
Emboss along the 4 straight borders

Emboss the curved corners using an ‘Inline technique’

Border Grid Perforating
Attach your design back on the grid right side facing up carefully aligning your embossed border dots.

Perforate around the outside edge of the embossed dots and use the ‘Inline Technique’ for the curved corners.

Cut out.

Adding Colour with Spectrum Noir Alcohol Pens & Alcohol Blender Pen
Add colour on the back inside the butterfly wings, filling in completely.
To make the spots use the bullet tip of the blender pen and draw a tiny spot, this will take out some of the colour, wipe the pen onto a piece of kitchen paper to clean and then re draw over the same spot this action will take out more colour

Add colour to the hearts
Apply a line of colour inside the top of the heart only using the bullet tip of the pen; blend the colour downwards into the rest of the space using an alcohol blender pen.

If you want a more delicate effect clean the nib of the pen and re blend from the bottom of the heart

TIP: Clean the colour from the blender pen by wiping the nib on a piece of kitchen paper.

All colouring completed

Emboss around the outer edge of the 3D wings using a PCA Micro Sun Tool.

Perforate around the sun shapes using a Siesta Small Half circle Tool

The other perforated shape at the bottom is a PCA Fine Semi Circle if you dont have the Siesta Tool.

Perforate around the edge of the body using a Pergamano 2 Needle Tool and cut out.

Adding colour with Sakura Stardust Gel Pens
Add colour on the front to the 3D bodies, I applied 2 layers of colour
Let your first layer completely dry before applying a 2nd layer.
Add tiny dots of colour inside the embossed sun shapes
Emboss these sections from the back when dry using a PCA Medium Ball Tool.

Grid Pattern ‘Malteze’ Embossing
Emboss a tiny dot inside each 4- hole perforations with the perforated lace work
Re-perforate these holes as embossing will have squashed them.

Colour 4 pieces of white card candi using the same Spectrum Noir pen to match your design colour attach these in all 4 corners using 3D Foam Pads

Attach the parchment design onto the card using 3D Foam pads behind the card candi.