DARING CARDMAKERS - GUEST DESIGNER

I'm delighted to be a Guest Designer over at Daring Cardmakers.  The brief for this challenge is Butterflies and Bees.  I've had loads of bees in my garden this year thanks to all the herbs I grow but I have seen few butterflies - probably because it's been such a wet summer here in Wales.  

I wanted a nice summery feel to my card so chose a yellow background I had made with the gel press.  I stencilled over it with Tim Holtz Distress Iced Spruce.  The butterfly stamp is by Sam Poole for  Creative Expressions.  I added an extra butterfly on the top and cut it out.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Markers to colour in the butterflies and added Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen over the top. 

 

I'm adding this into the following challenge:

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - summer 

The Outlawz Challenge - Butterflies 

Krafty chicks - AG 

TIM HOLTZ DISTRESS OXIDE INKS

I've been having a play with my Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks and getting a bit inky.  Jennifer McGuire has a great video on you tube showing the benefits of the Oxide inks against the Distress Inks so I thought it was time I actually got some water out and had a play.

I only have five colours so far so the colours I used for my background were Fossilized Amber, Chipped Sapphire, Salty Oean, and Black Soot. These are not my normal colour choices as I'm more of an earths greens and reds time of girl so I'm surprised that these are the ones I have gone for so far.

On my travels through blog land I found the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge so I'm adding my card into there. It also fits in with Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge which is to make your own background. I also think my colours go with the challenge over at Sunday Stamps.

I started off by adding some of the ink to a craft sheet, wetting it then adding the paper until I got the desired affect.  I then dried it with a heat tool and added some more of the ink on top until I was happy with what I had.  I have a tim Holtz little dots stencil so I added that on top and then used some of the Salty Ocean on top.  I then ran that through my big shot with an old SU dots embossing folder to give it a raised look.  I played with some more inks on separate pieces of paper and cut out the large butterfly and the smaller one which are from SU butterfly thinlets.

The sentiment is an old Tim Holtz one - from a set called Visual Artistry and I thought it really went with the idea of the butterflies changing.  I inked it simply with the Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink. I added a few pearls to the inside of the smaller butterfly.  




 

INLAID TECHNIQUE

In the crafting world where everything has been done to death it's a real thrill to come across a new technique.  This is what happened when perusing Pinterest, you know the way we do! I found a card which led to a blog which wasn't the right blog but then I found the correct blog by the person who had actually made the card - called Lindsey-Doodlings and there I found the Inlaid Technique.  This one has passed me by.  I'm sometimes phased by fiddling with small bits, especially as the eyes aren't what they used to be, but then hey I did used to run an inchy challenge blog!

So I had a play and I didn't find it quite as fiddly as I thought I would.

I've done my card using the colours asked for by CAS Colours and Sketches - 




I'm also adding this one into Watercooler Wednesday's Anything Goes challenge 

I used one of the Bold Butterfly framelits from SU and its quite a small little framelit which makes the little pieces even tinier.  In case you don't know what this technique is - its basically taking a framelit with lots of pieces in it, pushing out the inlaid pieces which have been coloured and reinserting them in the correct order in a white version of your framelit.  

As this was a colour challenge I inked up a piece of Whisper White with Soft Sky and Berry Burst.  My Soft Sky ink is very dry and doesn't really give a very true indication of the colour.  I went over the pieces once they were inlaid in the white butterfly with a blender pen inked in the two colours just to give a bit more definition.  The butterfly was then simply layered onto some Stitched Framelits and the sentiment is from Feather Together inked in Sahara Sand.


Thanks for stopping by - let me know if you do a similar technique and I can come and visit.