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Friday 22 August 2014

Visible Image Stamps, Distress inks, Glossy Accents, Stickles, Grunge Paste, Luminarte silks and Treasure Gold.



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


 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.....

 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

15 comments:

  1. Very gorgeous, particularly love the first one. Not sure what you mean by the 'splat' end of butterfly ? Xxx

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    1. Thank you so much Janna, the splat end of the Butterfly, is the longest bit of the ink splats, my terminology lol !!!! xxxxx

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  2. Love the glossy butterfly pauline, terrific idea for the background. Hope you're better now
    P xx

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  3. Hi pauline, Just amazing, love them both, fabulous colours too.

    Hugs Erin x

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  4. WOW Puline, that is so amazing love the colorful butterlies!
    Wish you a nice weekend,
    Hugs Anja

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  5. well done you! these are both gorgeous but that second one turned out so well! i'm loving the Pauline treatment xx

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  6. Love 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.

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  7. This is great love the butterfly xx Jan

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  8. Wow Pauline these are beautiful love the colours xx

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  9. Two beautiful cards, love the stamp used and the stamping and colouring techniques, wonderful. Glad you are better.

    Sylv xx

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  10. Great techniques shown. Fab cards x

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  11. Beautiful 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!!

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  12. Two fabulous card - can't decide between them! Both have fabulous colours, great technique used.
    xx

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  13. Really pleased to hear you're feeling better Pauline, fabulous news.
    Two brilliant cards again - WELCOME BACK!! Xxx

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