The first product I just had to ink up was the Artful Flutters stamp set, especially after seeing Cornelia's spotlight feature card over at the STAMPlorations blog on the very day that my parcel arrived.
Cornelia's card
I focussed on the ironed off embossed sentiments against the ombre background. I heat embossed my sentiments in white and then created my background using 3 colours of Zig markers and a water brush to blend the colours. To create a little more texture, I flicked some water on my panel and blotted it off using kitchen towel. After ironing off the embossing, I stamped the 3 butterflies from the same stamp set in Archival jet black ink. To add a little gold detail, I tried stamping the floating seed stamp (from Enchanted Garden by SugarPea Designs for the SOA Beautiful World collection) repeatedly using gold pigment ink and then heat embossing them in clear, but this only gave a very light image. Therefore, I added a little water to them to bleach out some of the background colour to make them show up a little better, but you may need to enlarge the picture to see them properly. Before mounting my panel onto a black mat and then onto my card (made out of Bristol cardstock), I added a few gold specks using my Versamark marker and gold embossing powder.
I'm linking my card up at:
CAS Mix Up - Stamping + markers + choice (heat embossing, water colouring, splatters)
The Paper Players - 304 Watercolour
STAMPlortions CAS challenge - July Anything CAS goes with optional colour: orange
So pretty Marianne. Love the bright and beautiful background you'd done with your zigs. Such fun new toys to play with too. :) Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Mix Up! xx
ReplyDeletePrachtige kleurscharkering, goud voegt mooie dimensie toe. En dan simpel 3 vlinders. Mooi Mar. Liefs Ien.☀️
ReplyDeleteA beautiful background, Marianne! I love the colors you've used and the gold spatters! A perfect background for the butterflies! Thanks so much for sharing with us at CAS Mix Up!
ReplyDeleteLove the bright background you created! Glad you joined us at The Paper Players!
ReplyDeleteMarianne, your Artful Flutters card turned out beautifully with your pretty Zig markers background and stamped butterflies. TFS and joining us at CAS Mix Up. Hugs, nancy
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely card, Marianne. Beautifully water-colored background. I love that Artful Flutters stamp set. I just placed an order at STAMPlorations, but can't remember if that was part of it! I'll have to check. Thanks so much for visiting my CASology Featured Designer post. I really appreciate it. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome technique....love the collage effect as well as those rosy hues! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this with us at the Paper Players this week!
ReplyDeleteSo elegant.You created a stunning card with your colors and butterflies.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful background! Thanks for joining us at the stamplorations cas challenge!
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