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Wednesday 29 August 2012

Butterflies and Birds Sampler

water colour background, overstamped with versa mark and brushed over with mica powder. words and butterflies stamped on to vellum.
Verse stamped in grey ink, vine stamped in green and flower soft added. Frame aperture was cut using nestabilities die. Front of frame embossed with 'Stampendous' Shabby blue and pink powder.
Background stamped with versa mark and clear embossing powder.  Then using a soft brush to ad colour with distress inks. The butterfly was stamped in gold and glittered. Leaves die cut ,
Background coloured with water colour. Swirls over stamped and embossed with Shabby Pink embossing powder. Bird cage stamped and embossed in gold. Swirl die cut and paper flowers.
Background brayerd with distress inks then whilst damp pink mica powder brushed over, this gives a sheene which unfortunately does not show on photo.  Words stamped with versa mark ink and again mica powder brushed over. Die cut and flowers added.

Background using waterclour on tissue paper, then whilst damp added Shabby embossing powders. Butterfly die cut was inked and then embossed with Shabby emb. powders. Body of butterfly mica beads.

Background used a blue patterned paper and added distress ink. Over stamped with swirl and embossed with Pink Shabby powder. Tag inked and stamped using gold powder. and embossed down one side. Bird, gold powder and water coloured.

This was made using a 'Kanban' kit with ink and embossing powder added.

Background inked with distress inks, words in gold embossing powder. Purple ink for the swirl embossed with glitter powder.  Right edged gold leaf. Paper flower.


These nine cards 10cm x 8cm make up a sampler for my shopping bag with plastic slots.

Anyone going to craft shows see if they can spot it!

Wednesday 1 August 2012

Inside Every Old Person!


Stamped using 'Ethel & Murray' stamps and misc. text stamp.  Background was white core basic cardstock, embossed with a polkodot mask and then sanded over to reveal white core.
The stamped image was coloured with 'Promarkers'.   A piece of contrasting black & white card to give the card balance.  Selection of blue card candy dots.