Hello everyone It’s reminder time already at The Flower Challenge, and dont forget you can win a stamp set from Altenew, all details are over at The Flower Challenge. My background combines white heat embossing over distress oxide ink blending and the bleaching technique. To ‘bleach’ I used a paintbrush to add water to areas of the image and after a few seconds I dabbed the water off with a dry cloth. Because distress oxide inks are water reactive you reactivate the colour and dab it away. I love this effect. The heat embossed stamps are from Altenew Golden Garden. I stamped some florals from Altenew Golden Garden and fussy…
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Heat or Dry Embossing | The Flower Challenge May 2019
Hi friends, For the May 2019 Flower Challenge we have the challenge of Heat or Dry Embossing on your cards. If you join in you also have the chance of winning a stamp set from Altenew. For my card I used the Altenew leafy frame, die cut and layered a number of times from white cardstock for dimension. I added this to an ink blended background using Victorian velvet and worn lipstick distress inks. For the central panel I gold heat embossed the floral from Altenew Golden Garden and coloured it with Spectrum Noir Aquatint markers. The sentiment is from Altenew Love Labels. I hope you will also check out…
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Let’s meet for coffee soon
Hi everyone For this card I used distress oxide barn door Ink and picked raspberry distress ink to create my ink smooshed background. Then I copic coloured and fuzzy cut some images from Altenew coffee love set. The sentiment is stamped in black archival ink direct to the watercolour background using my mini Misti. The current CAS watercolour challenge for February 2019 is to use red and pink. and the Just Add Ink challenge is red, pink and another colour – for me it’s grey. I am also entering this into the HLS Feb watercolor Challenge Thanks for visiting me today, hope you have a happy day.
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I am here for you | The Flower Challenge reminder #29
Hey everyone Hope your having a good February. It’s reminder time already at The Flower Challenge. Here is my entry using a brand new die to me from Altenew: Leafy Frame and one of my newer floral stamp sets by neat and tangled. I ink smooshed my stacked frame with distress ink – Victorian velvet and spun sugar. I used the same colours on my watercolour background. The sentiment from neat and tangled is stamped in archival black ink. I hope you will check out the inspiration from the rest of the design team and join in with us this month.
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Masculine Stencil card ft distress oxide inks
Hey friends I have a video for you today featuring a new to me Altenew stencil and ink blending. Head over to You Tube to watch it in high def. Here’s some pics and I hope you enjoy watching. Xx
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Altenew Watercolour Paints and colour mixing chart
Hi friends Apologies for the radio silence for the last couple of weeks, it’s been busy with my little boy starting nursery and then I caught a cold. But that didn’t stop me playing with my new Altenew watercolours, yay, and creating a colour mixing chart. Well a quarter of it anyway! This took about three hours so def a work in progress but very worthwhile. Hope you enjoy the video, in HD here Here is a pic of my colour mixing – this is the variations you get from just top two rows mixed with each other. Hope you get the chance to check out my video, excuse the…
