Delicate ....

Made a tag for a swap in UK Stampers Forum .....

Wanted to make a very delicately coloured tag and used a variety of handmade textured papers, leaves and flowers on an angelhair block with some gold leafing and fine metallic gold thread. It is finished with some adhesive pearls and a stamped 'Friend' sentiment.  The tag was edged in pale yellow chalk ink.

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Sid xx

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No Ordinary Moments

This little design was inspired by a batch of butterfly shaped die-cuts which I discovered in a drawer in my craftroom.  I have decided to start to use as much of my massive stash to create things from now on.  Trouble is I have so much that I have forgotten what I have at my disposal.

I opened a couple of boxes containing a selection of Stewart Gill paints, embossing powders, fragments etc and made up my mind to have a go using them.  The pic above shows what transpired !

 

I first painted the diecuts with some metallic SG paints in purple, blue and gold which I also enhanced with some Luminarte Primary Elements using one of the Simple Solutions to make mica paints.  I made several layers in the various colours until they looked vibrant.

On one butterfly I added some SG Embossing powder and heat embossed.

I then added SG jewel fragments stuck in place with glossy accents and finished off the bodies with Ranger dimensional pearls.  The antenna were added on a foam pad at the back and were made from coloured art wire.

The butterflies were adhered as shown with more foam pads.  The word are from PaperArtsy and were stamped on another piece of the background paper in Archival black ink, trimmed out and edged with more dusty concord Distress Ink.  A small purple self adhesive gem was added in the four corners as shown.

The background was made from some pale pink heavyweight card and I added Distress inks in victorian velvet and dusty concord with cut'n'dry foam.  I then used stamps and Brilliance and Versamagic chalk ink in various colours to add the dots and straw effects.

A piece of angelhair mesh was added to the back of the plate to finish.

Must dig into my stash and use some before I buy any more from now on.  This meets the challenge requirements of 'Sunshine & Lavender' for the City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 219

Sid xx

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Yellow, Green & Brown ATC's

These series of three ATC's were done as a swap to go abroad. I suggested a colour theme of Yellow, Green and Brown across the three with the use of any other embellishments or decoration.

I cut the card bases from plain white card and then selected a variety of papers along with some brown angelhair, acetates, ribbon and square brads. I also used three rubber stamps - A man stamp from PaperArtsy (MN08) - Antique Key from Rubber Stampede 3588C) - Swirl Stamp (Anon).

All papers, ribbon, punched fleur de lys and angelhair were adhered with glue stick and the brads used to secure the printed acetates (Making Memories). I used pearlescent Ivy and pearlescent olive Versafine inks for the stamping and edging was with Colorbox dark brown chalk ink.

Do hope you like them and that she does too ! :)

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