Some times I use rice papers, garden or coloured twine, or hessian and ribbon. For this one I used paper serviettes, ribbon, buttons and foam flowers and of course little string seed lights.
Just a bit different!!
So this card I made from the extras on the JND blooms and butterflies box kit.
I die cut the poppies in two directions just to add interest. Then I added the background which I made from a piece of acetate to which I added the Izink liquid ink, this is such fun to use. You need to make several sheets then let them dry. John had a you tube video on this.
Matted up and add a sentiment and you are done you may like to add flowers but I just wanted a clean and simple card.
So today I have been using stencils and foiling in a different way.
Firstly I took a stencil and drew around the inside of the stencil with ink pen.
The next step is to pass through the Kaleido foiling machine. The first picture is a very simple card.
Second card is with some doodling or zen tangling inside the petal shapes.
Next card I coloured after foiling with some metallic water colour paint.
And finally I discovered that after foiling once I could foil inside the first lot of foiling by painting the area with the magic medium.
Well pleased 😍😍😍
My Crafts Too Foiling machine recently arrived so I have been playing. First of all I am showing you one of my favourite ones.
One stencil three different looks. The first two are the positive and negative using the ink, applied with a sponge applicator. The last one I drew inside the stencil and then doodled inside. I really love the last one I will certainly do this again. I will be back with more ideas.
Earlier today I posted my samples for the JND shows so now I will try and give you a bit more detail of how they were made.
First step I stamped and embossed in white embossing powder the background flower stamp and heat set, at the same time I stamped the butterfly in the same way. This is not the butterfly from the show but an earlier one from John Lockwood that works well.
Secondly I coloured in the flowers on the background and the detail on the butterfly with coloured pencils I usually try to stick to three colours.
To finish I mounted the layers on to a card, fussy cut the butterfly (I love fussy cutting) added a few pearls. A sentiment die and there you are a different style!! Thanks for dropping by.
I have always struggled with cards for men as I am sure lots of folk do.
These cards certainly fill this problem. I used various Pearl card from my stash and the presscut layering dies. It was a bit time consuming but worth the effort. Finished off with JND dies, I find these so useful.
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