Welcome to my blog. I hope you'll find something here to inspire you.
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| I started first on the green layer and used white Stamping card by Sheena Douglass. I cut a cheap kitchen sponge into 8 pieces and cut small chunks from the bottom of two of the pieces to make texture. I took some Pebéo Deco Creme Paint in 29 Matt Bright Green, 31 Matt Tropical Green and 04 Matt Yellow and brayered the colours onto the card. Then I took some Pebéo Dyna Paints 359 Iridescent Green Yellow and 355 Iridescent Copper and dabbed these randomly on top of the other colours to create more texture. I use some Imagination Crafts Starlight Wax in black and smoothed it around the edges of the black matting layer and also onto the central black layer which had been texturised with an embossing folder by Crafter's Companion Textures - Artist Collection - Hessian. When it was dry I polished both pieces with a soft cloth to really make them shine. I ran another piece of black card through a different Embossing Folder by Crafter's Companion "Just For Men" collection - Pop Dotty and then rubbed over the surface with Pebéo Guilding wax in Antique Gold. I die-cut this piece of card with the Sheena Douglas "Going round in Spirals die twice and punched out letters to spell Happy Birthday with an old Martha Stewart Alphabet punch which I'm not sure if it's still available.. I then assembled the card as above and added some black bling from my stash to the corners of the central layer and a couple of Leaf sequins to the spirals. |
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I used the free stamp and die set which came with issue 159 of Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine. I cut an ATC from waste packaging using the Sizzix Bigz Die - Artist Trading Card. I textured the card with an Embossing Folder - Scattered Dots by Crafter's Companion Signature Collection - Birthday Party. I then painted the background with Pebéo Dyna Paints 356 Iridescent Violet Blue 357 Iridescent Blue Green 358 Iridescent Green Blue then toned the colours down a little with white Gesso by Daler Rowney. I water coloured the flowers with Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers and finished it off with a coat of Spectrum Noire Clear Sparkle Pen |
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I started the page by stamping my image then I covered it with Pebeo Drawing Gum. When completely dry I added an ombre wash using Spectrum Noire Aquatint 02 from the Perfectly Primary set.
I added the ink to the top of the page then blended it with clean water to the bottom of the page. I left this to air dry then rubbed off the drawing gum with a "Mask Away" rubber.
I coloured the flower image with Zig clean colour real brush water-colour marker pens. I then covered the image with a cloth and splattered the background with black gesso thinned with water using a fan brush.
Later I added Viva Decor Facetten-Lack Crackling Colour paste in white using the diamond stencil by Crafter's Workshop..
I stamped and doodled a border around the edge then stamped out the butterflies and bee stamp also included i the set and once again coloured them with the Zig markers. I adhered these to the page with Tacky Glue and then added a few words from the Tim Holtz Idea-Ology ChitChat stickers as my sentiment.
I outlined this with a Sketch & Wash charcoal pencil and activated it with water. I also used this pencil to shade under the leaves, flowers and the butterflies.
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