Girly Thank You

I have been playing with my brayer again - and glitter - yes, I know, I got covered in it as usual!!

To give a graduated effect I used three colours of reinkers and a few baby wipes to make my own ink pad then used my brayer to apply the ink to the card.  Once it had dried I sprayed the card with Platinum Shimmer Paint, diluted in some rubbing alcohol. 

The butterfly is called 'All a Flutter' (from the Mini Catalogue) and was stamped in Elegant Eggplant onto the card and then their bodies and antennae glittered.

The flowers are from the Sticky Cuts Sweet sheets which are double sided adhesive die cut words and images which are perfect for use with glitter.  The small dots of glitter are actually flower centres from the adhesive sheets, covered in glitter.

To mount the sentiment I stamped the butterfly Thank You image from the Oval All stamp set onto Whisper White card and punched out using the Large Oval punch.  Then I punched out a Scalloped Oval and used a sponge dauber to apply dabs of Platinum Shimmer Paint to give me a lovely silvery layer of card to mount the sentiment onto.

I am not sure why the top flower looks like its gold - not that good at taking photos!  Its actually silver but it must be the flash from the camera.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by.  Hope you have a great weekend - I am hoping to get some more crafting don't this weekend.  But I really must get some housework done, sob :-(

Recipe
Cardstock - Pixie Pink, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White
Ink - Reinkers, Elegant Eggplant
Stamp Sets - All a Flutter, Oval All
Accessories - Sticky Cuts Sweet Sheets, Stampin' Glitter (Silver & Rose Red Fine Cosmo & Fine Galaxy) Silver Elastic Cord, Platinum Shimmer Paint.
Non Su - Rubbing Alcohol

Jan
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Classes

Just had a really busy day with two (yes, two) classes.

The first class was on a technique called Two Step Stamping.  Its a little difficult to explain without showing how it works but the stamps used overlay each other so you get multi coloured stamped images.

The set made using Greenhouse Garden is definatly my favourate.  I think its because the images are more delicate, here it is.

and here is a photo of the set of cards using the Rose is A Rose stamp set. 

Recipe
Stamp Sets - A Rose is a Rose, Greenhouse Garden, Oval All
Ribbon - Elegant Eggplant, Certainly Celery
Ink - Pretty in Pink, Lovely Lilac, Pixie Pink, Almost Amethyst, Elegant Eggplant, Certainly Celery, Old Olive
Cardstock - Pretty in Pink, Lovely Lilac, Pixie Pink, Gable Green, Whisper White.
Punches - Large Oval, Scalloped Oval, Corner Rounder, Scalloped Border, Eyelet Border
Accessories and Equipment - Flowers/brads, Crop A Dile, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter,

The second class was for Absolute Beginners - we made four cards using various basic techniques like matting and layering and colouring with pastels, markers and watercolour wonder crayons.  I will post photos shortly.

Have a fab weekend - I am off now for a well earned drink!!!

Jan
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I have been trying to think of ideas to use the coordinating Spring Solitude stamp set and wheel since getting my (rather large) first order. All the photos I have seen have just used the wheel to create backgrounds and my first attempt didnt really have the impact I wanted to create. I used versamark ink on the wheel to create the border up the side of the card and heat embossed with black embossing powder. I used black stazon to stamp the panel and then cut out the block flower, layered it with dimentionals and mounted it on black card. Recipe: Cardstock - Almost Amethyst, black Ink - Versamark, Black Stazon Stamp sets - Spring Solitude, Oval All Accessories - Large and scalloped oval punches, Black embossing powder.