Hellooooo my Crafty friends,
I'm sorry I haven't been around for a while, I've been getting over an infection, but I'm much better now, and back to crafting, yipeeee !!!!
Today I'm sharing a couple of cards I've made, using some fantastic unique stamps from Visible Image.
The first card uses
Butterfly INKognito and Create from Create Your Future.
Using the splat end of the butterfly, Versamark and clear embossing powder, I stamped and heat embossed to make a resist, overwhich I blended with Distress inks, to create my background.
I coloured the butterfly stamp with watercolour pens, spritzed a fine spray of water then stamped, dried it thoroughly, then covered it with glossy accents, and left to dry, this gave it extra dimension.
When it was totally dry, I added Stickles to give the butterfly some bling !!! The sentiment was stamped in the same way as the butterfly.
Card 2 stamps are.....
INKognito Butterfly and Dream from Imagine Dream Inspire.
This was really a bit of an experiment,
I coated a piece of card with Grunge Paste, and using the same Butterfly stamp which was spritzed with water, I stamped into the paste, removed stamp and washed, and left the paste to dry.
This gave me a negative image, I painted the whole of the background with a pale pink chalk paint, when dry, using Luminarte Silk glazes, I painted the image of the butterfly. Using Treasure Gold gilding wax on my finger, I rubbed the outside of the background and gently across all the textured bits, I finished up stamping the sentiment with Archival ink.
I hope I've given you a bit of inspiration to try something a bit different. Don't forget to have a go at the Visible Image Challenge, the theme this month is 'Anything Goes', and there's a chance you could win £20 of new stamps.
If you haven't got a blog, you can still enter via the Visible Image Facebook Group.
Thanks for visiting, take care,
Big hugs, Pauline xxxx
Very gorgeous, particularly love the first one. Not sure what you mean by the 'splat' end of butterfly ? Xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Janna, the splat end of the Butterfly, is the longest bit of the ink splats, my terminology lol !!!! xxxxx
DeleteLove the glossy butterfly pauline, terrific idea for the background. Hope you're better now
ReplyDeleteP xx
gorgeous Pauline.
ReplyDeleteGr Karin
Hi pauline, Just amazing, love them both, fabulous colours too.
ReplyDeleteHugs Erin x
WOW Puline, that is so amazing love the colorful butterlies!
ReplyDeleteWish you a nice weekend,
Hugs Anja
well done you! these are both gorgeous but that second one turned out so well! i'm loving the Pauline treatment xx
ReplyDeleteLove both of these Pauline but especially like the first one particularly that sparkly glossy butterfly and how you've blended all those colours for the background.
ReplyDeleteThis is great love the butterfly xx Jan
ReplyDeleteWow Pauline these are beautiful love the colours xx
ReplyDeleteTwo beautiful cards, love the stamp used and the stamping and colouring techniques, wonderful. Glad you are better.
ReplyDeleteSylv xx
Great techniques shown. Fab cards x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards! I love the grunge paste one! I've done smaller pieces of stamped paste before as elements for altered stuff but nothing like this! Going to try this deffo!!
ReplyDeleteTwo fabulous card - can't decide between them! Both have fabulous colours, great technique used.
ReplyDeletexx
Really pleased to hear you're feeling better Pauline, fabulous news.
ReplyDeleteTwo brilliant cards again - WELCOME BACK!! Xxx