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Makin faces wow love your creativity on the harvest butterfly

Chez I'm lovin your pretty halloween & valentine ones they are awesome & hey don't be so hard on your self we are all are own worst critics. I think your work is brilliant

Anita dead halloween absolutely fantastic you rock, love the finaly pic too

I'm entering another, it could've been better but you get the idea.

Products used: TAG Black & red, Snaz White & White sparkle. TAG holographic white glitter.
Tools used: Sponge, #4 Loew Cornell brush, small flat shader brush.

These are so much fun! I love all the creativity.

sheesh! I better get in on this before I'm left behind in the dust!!
Metina is going to have a huge job sorting all the entries in this one!They are all so creative too...... hmmm quick brain come up with something FAST!!

Wow! These are great! Anita, I love your design!!!

OK, one more for me

This is my Halloween Entry. I call it my Dragon-fly:

Tools:
sponge
small round detail brush
#2 round(snaz brush)
#6 filbert
1/2" flat brush

Paints:
Paradise Amazon Green
Paradise Lime Green
Wolfe Green
Wolfe black & white


Double load a sponge w/ lime green & amazon green & press in the butterfly wings. Use a flat brush & the wolfe dark green & make scallops around the edges. Blend out the dark green into the amazon green.


Using the filbert brush & lime green, paint the line work around the edge & the "tear drops" going towards the center. Using the filbert & wolfe white, make the horns & paint the highlights.


Using a detail brush & wolfe black, outline all the "ribs" & the whole design. Draw the details between the ribs. Paint the spots w/ a #2 round. Create the center of the butterfly. Highlight w/ white.

Thanks for the compliments guys.
Yours is also very nice Psalmbook!

Linda your da bomb.

great designs, all!...Anita...your design is awesome!

Here we go.....


I tried to capture the sparkle.... it's not easy.

Oh so pretty Tash

ok another go at this, so glad we are doing this theme cause my butterfly's seriously suck at least now i have an excuse to practice

ZOMBIE BUTTERFLY
i used all TAG pains and a number 4 round brush.
double load sponge with 1/4 black and 3/4 silver . sponge around the eyes in a circle.


out line the top wings and add web shapes to bottom using tag black


add white to eyelid for the eye and white "teeth" shapes to tips of web.


add white highlights and blood drops. and red over the white on top of eyelids with black stripe through eye top to bottom with a white dot in the centre.


add butterfly body and some red lippy and your done.
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i would like to dedicate this one to my twin sister the ultimate zombie queen lol.

Creepy! I love it!

Here is my first submission to this contest.
1. Tools - fantasy worldwide sponge
- #4 round kolinsky elite brush
-#1 round snaz brush
2. paints - snaz white
-paradise beach berry (red)
-dfx white
-wolfe dark green
irridescent glitter
3. steps
a) sponge on snaz white and beach berry (careful no red on eyelid or too near eye)
b) add body with and antenae with dfx white add stripes with beach berry
c) add candy cane shape wing lines and other white lines with dfx
d) stripe with beach berry
e) add dfx dark green stripes, dfx white details and sugar it up with glitter

the last pic is just for fun to show a more mature design for those who just want a little something (just erased the bottom)

Oh I am bursting with excitement! My first contest entry, ever! And my daughter shared my excitement - she is Ava, she says "hi", she is 5, and she is showing you all her two bottom teeth (missing!) in one of the pics. ENJOY!!!!



Tools used:

FWW green sponge
Kolinsky sables #4 and #2
dollar store dotter wand

Colors used:

TAG pearl green
TAG light green
TAG pearl red
TAG pearl gold
TAG white
TAG black

Step by step:

1) Sponge on green, gold, and red.



2) Add red holly berries and green/light green leaves (I did one-stroke leaf method, badly!).



3) Add black outlining to butterfly, add black details to holly leaves/berries, add words "Joy" and "Merry".



4) Add white accents to highlight shading on leaves, berries, and wings. Add star bursts.

Barbie, I looove it!!! It's kind of what I have in mind...I gave up..LOL

Great entries so far!

great designs everyone!

Oooh!!! Keep 'em coming!!!

MirandaS - do yours, PLEASE! It will be different enough and I would LOVE to learn from it!!!!
Barbie

Yes, when we're all doing holiday designs, we're bound to have similar ideas. However, I might like Barbie's way of doing the center & Mirandas way of outlining, etc. It will help all of us, so post away!
For instance, I was going to do a candy cane inspired butterfly
I also had an idea for webs....

Not happy at all with the way it turned out but I was kinda making it up as I went along. Thinking about a re-do now that I know the look I am going for...who knows we'll see but here it is my poinsettia butterfly

Colors used (all DFX):

essential red & met. red mixed
essential yellow & met. gold mixed
essential pink black green
bright green split cake

Brushes used:

#2 #3 #5 round
1/2" flat
3/8" angle shader
1/2" angle shader
1 sponge

Step 1. sponge on stamen met gold over yellow on the eye
Step2. do butterfly body in black dots of deceasing size & antennae


Step 3. do flower petals in met. red over essential red



Step 4. Outline in white and add in pink




Step 5. Add leaves and black outline



Finished product

I LOVE LOVE the Candy Can butterfly !! Great job! All These butterflies are looking awesome.

Yup, butterflies don't have bones, but exoskeletons aren't as much fun for halloween!
Used:
WB: purple, orange, yellow, white, grey
Paradise: black
DFx: metallic purple
Sorry for the large pictures, I'll figure out how to resize them for the next time.

ruddy brilliant!

OMG I'm so blown away with everyones entries there is an abundance of creativity flowing. This will be so hard to choose which one to vote for.