Butterflies and tag..... tag and butterflies...

ADDED LATER:
I WON on the Stampman blog !!
if you'd like to see what I chose, see the end of this post... 

For the # 25 challenge on the Stamp Man Challenge Blog - Butterflies and Dragonflies
and for the challenge on Try It On Tuesday - Tag and Butterfly

You should see this, it's covered with beeswax - it gives such a deep color effect.  I made this while at Jolande's place yesterday, she also made one, with different colors, same stamps... Thanks again Jolande, for the terrific stamping day!

How I made the tag:
First sponge the tag with various colors Distress inks, I used rusty hinge and scattered straw. The edges I accentuated with walnut stain.  Then stamp the plants with StazOn black. Also stamp the bottom plant with faded jeans, to co-ordinate with the blue from the butterfly and to make it have a shadowy effect. Stamp the two butterflies on a seperate piece of cardstock and cut it out. Color it, I colored the butterflies with watercolor pencils, with co-ordinating colors I used in the background. Adhere the butterflies to the tag.

Then I heated some beeswax in the melting pot, took an old brush to cover the tag with a thin layer of the wax. On some spots I put more wax, to be able to stamp in it at a later stage. I heated the beeswax to get even coverage, to get rid of the "stripes" from the brush. Then heat the parts you put some more beeswax one by one and - while melted-  stamp in it with a stamp, a flourish in this case. Let it cool down.

Then, to accentuate the stamping in the wax, just rub some pearl-ex or perfect pearls over the stucture with a finger. I used a gold and copper color.

I LOVE this technique!!
This technique I learned from Liesbeth, on the Art Specially Event.
This is the tag I made on the event, using the same technique, with fishes. 

STAMPS USED: 

Butterflies - Unity Stamps

Flowery edge - Stampers Anonymus

Branch - ??

The prize I won: