{"id":3671,"date":"2023-08-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:13:22","slug":"fly-to-the-sun-with-butterfly-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/art-journal-inspiration\/fly-to-the-sun-with-butterfly-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Journal Page Tutorial with Butterfly Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello, Samantha here today and I’m sharing a tutorial and another page ready for my art journal using the cute Butterfly Girl<\/a> as my focal image. I was inspired by the beautiful, sunny weather we have been enjoying recently here in England. My pages measure 8 inches by 8 inches and I leave enough space to journal on them at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I began by stamping the sun from the Celestial stamp set and using the sun’s lines as a guide for the sun rays, don’t worry because this all gets painted over! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I put down the first colour, just to get a feeling for how and where to place images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s time to start adding some details and for this I used some of the lovely daisy stamps from the Bold and Beautiful stamp set and some white and yellow acrylic paint. I also used some of the leaves from Pencil Marks 3 to fill in some space and add some colour, I used watercolour to colour the leaves, making sure to use a few different shades of green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then stamped the Butterfly Girl 2 and sun on to white card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then for something that I haven’t done for quite a while and it achieves a wonderful effect, I painted a thin layer of white gesso over my stamped images. Then I drew over the top of the images with an ordinary pencil, it makes the images look like you just drew them with a pencil. I used pencil crayons to colour Butterfly girl and the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next part is when everything you’ve done comes together on the page. All the finishing touches I really enjoy doing. I randomly stamped the text to add a little more detail and added some white gesso all over the page to soften the colours and decided to add some clouds and some glitter to the sun rays for a little sparkle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks so much for stopping by, Sam xx<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hello, Samantha here today and I’m sharing a tutorial and another page ready for my art journal. I was inspired by the beautiful, sunny weather we have been enjoying recently here in England. My pages measure 8 inches by 8 inches and I leave enough space to journal on them at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[399,400,119,130],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-journal-inspiration","category-tutorial","tag-bold-and-beautiful","tag-butterfly-girl-2","tag-celestial","tag-pencil-marks-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/AA-527.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15388,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/15388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}