Hello my little flowers!
Todays card was a result of a Cameo play session. 🙂 i swear the more i play with my silhouette cameo the more i love it. And in fact, the more i play the better i get at using it, so it means that i feel like i am actually getting the results that i want now, which is fab!
I made a cut file which was a scatter of stars and then i ran a piece of acetate through the cameo to create a mask. It was an experiment, and it turned our great. i was really surprised at how easy the acetate cut. Next I used distress inks and the blender tool to pop colour through the mask to create a starry background. I purposefully chose softer colours- i didn’t want the card to appear too pre-schooly.
For the feathers I cut them in white and used the same ink pads to carry the colour into the main focal element. I love doing this, its a great way to create cohesion throughout your project. To add dimension I also used my scoring tool to create a score up through each feather- it resulted in a slight bend upwards as you can see in the photo.
Next up was some sparkle. I cut a thin strip of gold glitter paper and adhered it to the card along with blue washi tape, and then dipped the feathers in glue and gold glitter -just so the tip was a little glittery and sparkly. I think next time I will use glitter embossing powder to get a more even coverage, but this still worked well. Add a printed greeting, some twine and random Jack Wills button, chomp some corners and i call that done!
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A quick card to share today.
I’ve been playing with my silhouette and some acetate to make my own masks- it’s been fun especially with distress inks.
I had an idea for a Thank You card for someone who has offered a little ray of hope to me recently, and the mask worked great for this.
Here it is:
The only other things that I used that aren’t in the photo were some old scenic route labels and a hero arts thank you clear set. It was a quick card but I’m really happy with the outcome, especially as this card is for a guy.
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Hello everyone,
I have noticed a shift in the crafty world. We’ve seen spritzers, misters and sprays for a little while now but I feel like theres now even more focus on mixed media in the industry. I have never really kept myself to just one area, I am an experimenter, a dabbler, and i thought it was time to introduce some more mediums into my projects….or at least try.
I liked the end result of this card, but it did take a little while to free myself into becoming used to inky, painty mess on the craft table. Here is how I made it….
First I dug out my watercolours. I want to tell you that it is not a fancy watercolour set – its a bog standard one a bit like this one on amazon at £2.10. The lid has got little circular reservoirs so i picked up some water, swooshed the brush around the paint and then transferred it over to the reservoir side. To create the drip effect you need a very wet mixture, so i kept going until i had a painty water mix, then I dabbed the brush onto the card- letting the paint drip off the brush and rest on the paper. Then I took a straw and whilst holding the card at a 50 -60 degree angle, I blew the paint to encourage it to drip down to the bottom. Once I had done this, I got rid of the excess that was on the brush by painting a bit on a spare piece of white card. I repeated this for all the colours and purposefully blew the paint across one another to create an artsy look.
After my paint was dry (quick blast of the heat gun did wonders to speeding this along) I used a Martha Stewart punch to punch a butterfly from white card and then I punched another butterfly from the painted bits on the scratch card. I then added a white butterfly to the card along the paint splodge line, and then using a small glue dot, put the painted butterfly on top. This way I could bend the wings of the butterfly up to create dimension and the white butterfly underneath created something almost like a shadow, which made the top one really stand out!
I thought the card looked pretty cool, but it needed some final bits to finish it off – a few gems, twine and an embossed greeting did the trick!
Thanks for stopping by!
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