Valentine Girls

At last I can share these two cards made for the Valentine girls in our family.

The wording/backgrounds were produced in CAP2  for both cards, and then the spray of leaves were stamped and coloured with promarkers, with H2Os over the top. (Sheena Douglas stamps and technique).  The same technique was then applied to the flowers which were stamped on watercolour card.  Finally I applied glossy accents to the flowers and the wording to make it even more three dimensional, and some gems to the centre of the flowers.

Ellie's card has faux matting and layering, but Katharine's had silver mirri matting before adding it to the cardstock.

close up of flower spray

This final picture shows a variation I was trying before colouring and applying glossy accents so that you can see that although the lettering looks 3D - it is even better with the gloss.

Mags

Enamelling a little metal box

enamelled box

I have been playing with Sheena's new stamps again, and my Pebeo Fantasy paints, and experimenting painting on metal.  This is a little box (bit like pill box) it is 4.5 cm in diameter.  As it is for my use, I have put a little M on it.

If you click on this second picture you can see the different effects of the Moon and Prisme paints more clearly.

another view

Playing with H20s

I wanted to play with my Sheena Douglas stamps again today, and also to use my much neglected H2Os.

I had already made the flowers using the Pebeo Fantasy paints when playing last week, so these were the basis of the colours I wanted to use.

The background was a wash of H2Os and mica powders.  I tried many variations, before I decided to use this background.  (some were done on watercolour card, , and some had the swirl painted with H2Os, during the process of deciding the effect I wanted!)  This one was actually done on normal 160g white card.

I then stamped the swirly spray from Sheena's Flower Power set, and coloured it with Promarkers; then added glossy accents to give it dimension and added the enamelled flowers.

I created the 70 and the sentiment in CAP2 , creating an embossed effect on the 70, which was cut out and then glazed with glossy accents again.  

For the sentiment I used one of the CAP special effects   to which some background colour was added using an Ink Duster brush, and Big & Juicy "Spice" inkpad.  This was then edged with a black  Promarker and glossy accents added to the letters.

Again this has been a bit of a deviation from my normal card - but I had a lot of messy fun achieving it!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope you like the card.

Mags