Today I created 2 cards inspired by the lessons, and by a video I watched that just happened to fit in with the lesson to use your dies to create a stencil.
The first card was from the stencil Watercolor Stripes I had created an ink blended card for another project and as inspired by the lesson I did not want the ink on the stencil to go to waste. I used Sheer Shimmer Spray from Imagine as my moisture to wet the ink on the stencil. I turned it over onto a card panel. I then stamped one of the images from the Hello Beautiful Craft Your Life Project Kit in the bottom right corner of the panel. I ran the panel through a dry embossing folder I had in my stash. It had a patter that ran in the same direction as the stripes. I had originally planned to leave the flower as a black lined image, but decided to color it very simply using the lines in the image created by the artist. I used my Altenew Artist Markers for this G702, WG01 for the shading and R601 for the flower buds. I used a Glaze pen to color in the tips of the stamen in black. This had to be done last as the ink in these pens does not try right away and I am notorious for putting these wet mediums on my projects and then putting something down on top of it. You would think I would learn. Not this time! I stamped a small strip of white card stock with the sentiment from the same stamp set. I attached a strip of the essential black and white patterned paper to the sentiment to give it some interest. Both strips were angled at the left side. I nestled my sentiment into the flower bloom.
Showing shimmer in photos or on videos is very difficult but you can kind of see it it the picture above and below.
The second card today was the one I had in my head to add these areas that looked like a paint dump then to have butterflies fly through almost to get their color from the area. When I saw the lesson video talking about using your dies to make stencils then I decided I would give this technique a try.
I used a border die I had and some acetate I cut the acetate with my die and used that as my stencil, overlapping it slightly for each color. I used the Glacier Caves Crisp Die Ink Set from Altenew Arctic, Caribbean Sky, Persian Blue, and Sapphire. Honestly, I just wanted to used that Sapphire color pretty bad, it is a stunning color. I blended 2 matching panels. One to stamp and cut out my butterflies and the other as my front panel. I used the Painted Butterflies Stamp Set from Altenew. I love the shape of these butterflies. I stamped them on the extra panel a couple partially off the colored area and one overlapping a couple of different colors. I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set using teh Jet Black Crisp Die Ink (the butterflies were also stamped with this ink) and nestled it in under one of the butterflies. I cut the left edge of the sentiment strip to match the curve of the color with a pair of scissors. I cut a frame out of silver cardstock and placed it around the butterflies, to give some interest. I added a few very small pearls scattered about.
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Stacey, thank you for sharing your wonderful cards. I like the idea of the paint dump and how you incorporated the butterflies too! Well done.
Thank you for submitting your work to the AECP assignment gallery.