Peacock Feather Colours

The colour challenge at "Less is More" this week is to use the colours of peacock's feathers... I decided to use an image of  a peacock's feather too as had I picked one up in a Grab Bag from Rubber Necker stamps at Ally Pally some time ago.

Essentially the colours are blue and green, but there is also quite a bit iridescence in these glorious shades. 

To achieve this I used  a variety of glittery powders from WOW; St Lucia Surf, Antigua Breeze and Jamaica Green.

The sentiment is from a die cut from Hero Arts, also inked with Versamark and embossed.

Here's the same stamp, this time stamped on white card, embossed in silver and then painted with a water brush. Various shades of blue and green Brushos were then sprinkled over and allowed to react with the water.

When dry, the feather was cut out and a twinkling of Glamour Dust was added for good measure!

The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted and embossed in silver.

Watercolour Spritzing

The CAS challenge this month at Happy Little Stampers is
Watercolour Spritzing

I made this card at the HLS Retreat in Swindon a few weeks ago... using Brushos. It was such fun to do! I had had some Brushos for quite a while but needed this input to get me going on the right lines.  Now I can't stop!
I spritzed a piece of watercolour paper with water and sprinkled a couple of shades of Brushos onto it and waited for it to react, adding a little more water as necessary. I also took a print from the paper and so got an extra background into the bargain.
The backing of the Sizzix butterflies and the Clearly Besotted sentiment were cut from the same piece of card, which was placed behind the Sizzix honeycomb corner, aperture die.

This challenge is sponsored by

Tutorials:
Watercolour Spritz by StampTV (3:49)
Watercolor Spritz Technique by Joslyn Nielson (0:43)
Spritzing Brushos by Kylie Purtell (1:57)

Why not have a little fun and join in with this challenge....don't forget to keep it Clean and Simple!

Spot the Peel-Off!

The Challenge at "Less is More" this week is to use a Sticker, Sticky Label or Peel Off!

When I first started crafting, I didn't have a die cutting machine and thought that Peel Offs were the Bee's Knees. I have to admit that over the years my opinion has changed but being a squirrel, I still have the odd supplies of them. Here I decided to use a few...but in disguise!

For this one I used a Peel Off of a snowflake within a frame, to act as a mask.

Having gently stuck it down, I inked the card with Versamark and heat embossed it with some WOW twinkly EP. I then removed the Peel off to re-use for a similar process.

The sentiment was die cut and then inked and embossed similarly.

Again I used a Peel Off as a mask and inked a rainbow of colours using sponge daubers. I then stamped a few random dots over the top and embossed in silver, finally removing the Peel Off.

The balloon was die cut using holographic wrapping paper attached to a piece of card for stiffening. The string is from a Memory Box thread die. This postage style rectangle is also from a Memory Box die.

For this final one I once more used a Peel Off as a mask. As the sails were open, I masked that area within the Peel Off with Elmers Rubber Cement, then inked the sky with a Blending brush over a die cut cloud which I moved around as I was inking. The sea was also applied with a blending brush. When dry I rubbed off the cement.

The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

I don't think I could have used the Peel Off in its original state...what was I thinking when I bought this sheet!

I can't see me using a lilac and gold Peel Off an any project anytime soon (not as is anyway)!

LIM is feeling exotic

I tried to make this look like a tequila sunrise... I somehow associate fancy, colourful cocktails with exotic places as I like to try new ones when I go on cruises to warmer climes! I shall have to wait until January before the next one...cruise not cocktail that is!

Here is  one layer card with dry embossed frame and sentiment, a simply stamped and clear embossed image coloured with watercolour pencils, blended with a water brush and given a coat of Glossy Accents.

This rather exotic looking, showy flower was made from a pair of dies from Memory Box... it's quite a whopper!

It was cut from card coloured with the shaving foam technique and then inlaid. The centre was cut from black card and encrusted with Micro beads set into Glossy Accents. The sentiment was cut from an alphabet from PTI and all the coloured card was gentle twinkled with Glamour Dust although it doesn't show up much on this picture. 

Aloha!