A princess and a goddess

More Stampotique images, both coloured with water coloured paints.  The background of the tags were painted with eco friendly paints, tide pool and orchid.  Once dry, Vaseline was smeared in certain areas to act as a resist and the whole of the tag was painted with sand eco friendly paint.  Once dry I wiped off the paint in the areas where the Vaseline had been applied.  I stamped the tag with the spiders web image from stampers anonymous.  Painted the wings and the crown from T!m's alteration plate, heart wings, in gold dabber paint.  White liquid pearls were used to decorate the crown and the wings.  Princess and godess were made with the dymo labeller and finally fibres were added.

Reverse Resist Postcard

Just thought I'd share this with you as I decided to have a go at another resist postcard but this time I reversed the black and white to the previous one.  I think it looks ok but I personally prefer the first one, just thought I'd try something different.

A Few More Cards

I've had a couple of days holiday this week and yesterday I decided to play with the resist technique. You may not be able to see them very clearly but they are the main images on the card above and below




I used my new AI's to create these 2 cards. I only have 3 colours, juniper, willow and salmon. For the background of the top one I decided instead of dotting the colours around the card I would 'draw' lines with them instead. So basically I loaded the tool with ink and pulled it straight down a few times. I then stamped an image over the top using black archival ink. I'm not keen on the archival ink as I tend to smudge it, but this time it's worked out ok. I chalked the edges of the card to try and correspond with the AI colours.

Below I used the traditional method of dotting and swirling the ink on the paper, again stamped the image using the archival ink, matted the image onto a couple of different colours added a couple of flowers and a flourish from a cuttlebug die. I inked the edges and stamped across the top and bottom.

I stamped this paper with dragonflies, script, the TH scratches stamp using various shades of orange. The quote is stamped in olive green stazon. I inked up a piece of acetate with butterscotch, caramel and latte AI's and then stamped 2 dragonfly images with olive green stazon, cut them out and attached to the the card. The flourish is another cuttlebug die from the same set as above

Black & White Canvas

Was having a play this afternoon and created this. Inspired by some of the creations in the latest Somerset Studio magazine. It's a 5" x 7" flat canvas which was staring straight at me. I covered it in mod podge, ripped a page of text out of an old book, stuck it over the canvas and gave it another coat of mod podge. When dry I placed vaseline over certain areas to act as a resist to the acrylic paint. I painted the whole piece and when dry, using a clean piece of paper towel, removed the paint from the areas covered with the vaseline. I tore a piece of black card, a piece of vellum and a piece of tissue paper, scrunched them up and used my paper distresser to distress the edges. I stuck the tissue paper down roughly in the middle of the canvas and I used silicone glue to attach the other two pieces as I wanted the piece to have a 3d look and not be flat to the canvas. I added a piece of magic mesh and rubbed over it with black stazon. I used one of my new stamps and stamped the image onto a glossy piece of white card using black stazon ink, again I attached it with silicone glue. I then added a piece of white lace to the right hand side, a black ribbon and a white button to the bottom right, a metal charm to the bottom left and a metal charm which says, love life, live life, middle top. It looks quite good in the flesh because it's got a bit of 'lift'.

Lotstodo Week 32 Challenge - Nature

This is my entry for the Lotstodo Challenge this week which is Nature

Card Using Resist Stamping

Made this card for a friend today. Used the resist stamping technique. Added a quote and a bit of ribbon. Used a border punch along the bottom for decoration

For further info on the resist stamping technique, click here