A Little Dylisions Goes A Long Way

So what happens when you spill Calypso Teal Dylusions over your almost finished project? lol. That's what happened to me here . . . I tried to tip some back into the bottle and made an even bigger mess on my floor as well. Thank you Ultra Clean stamp cleaner for getting it off the lino.

I have to say the Ranger/Tim Holtz watercolour paper is the best I have tried. Love love love it. I used some paper towel to blot off the puddle of dylusions and now if I hadn't told you you wouldn't know it was a huge oopsie! The paper can really take a lot of water without breaking down and pilling.

The flowers and elephant are stamped with Archival ink. The flowers are coloured with Dylusions and Glimmer mist. The elephant is coloured with Copics and a lil Atyou Spica for some extra sparkle :) He is also paper pieces to add some dimension.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Watercolour Spotlight

Hi we are at the bonus day and the final stretch of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes. Panicking a bit as I have 6 cards still to make (I wanted to do more but time is of the essence lol) in the next 24 hours lol. Sorry in advance for the glut of close together posts!

So the storu behind this card and the next one is that I had a specific stamp set I wanted to use that I put somewhere so I could find it . . . and promptly lost it lol. I had to borrow some stamps off my friend to do this one, but may after class finishes now that I found my stamps in a spot I looked five times I will make this card with my original vision.

I have used Stazon Jet Black to stamp my stamps, the sentiment is from Kaisercraft and the flowers are freebies off a mag I think but I'm not really sure. I used Dylusions, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and a home made glimmer mist as well. Oh and it's on Ranger Watercolor Cardstock, my new fave watercolour cs! I need to get the hang of this technique a bit more.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Revisiting My Butterfly Canvas

Ok so last year I did a post Here about a butterfly canvas... What most people didn't know was that I wasn't wholly happy with it and the butterflies and bling weren't stuck down! lol. I had known all along I was going to give it to my friend for her birthday which was last week. So yep, you guessed it, I pulled it back out again and set to work

I added a stencilled border around the outside with Royal Purple Stazon and Tim Holtz' Honeycomb stencil, changed the lighter butterflies bling to a pale pink as well as the antennae and blinged out the background for a more finished look!
Hope you enjoyed the revisit!
Purple

Purple Tattered Angel Butterfly Canvas

Hi everyone :) This week it's my turn to host the Eclectic Ellapu challenge. My challenge is shades of PURPLE with the main focus being butterflies. I would also like to see one of the following, brads buttons or bling. Bling can take the form of anything from shimmer mists to rhinestones and anything in between :)

I started by grabbing my purple distress supplies. I used Milled Lavender, Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord and Seedless Preserves in both stain form and ink pads. I also used Brushed Pewter Distress Stain for some sparkle. Onto some watercolour paper I used Royal Purple Stazon to stamp my Tattered Angels In Flight Butterfly. I used a distress stain bottle to shape the wings.

I then used the stains on my craft mat with a spritz of water to colour the butterflies with my Tim Holtz waterbrush . The lightest colour is milled lavender, the middle colour is dusty concord and the outer colour is seedless preerves. I used my gathered twigs ink pad to colour the butterfly bodies.

For the canvas I laid down my five stains randomly and then spritzed with water. I used paper towel to blot the excess and lighten the background up a bit. The paper towel helped to give a nice texture as well. I then used dusty concord and seedless preserves around the edges.

I then used the butterfly stencil from Tattered Angels Fanciful Stencils and a sponge dauber with milled lavender and inked the inside parts of the stencil. I then used the stamp again with the milled lavender to stamp over each butterfly. I wasn't looking to line things up perfectly, just to add a bit of interest to the background.

I used See Dee's Monarch stamps over the background. For the large flourish I started with my lightest colour at the top (lilac) then added dusty to the middle and seedless at the bottom (worked lightest to darkest). I then stamped some of the butterflies with seedless.

I used a home made glimmer glaze all over the butterflies for some serious sparkle. It consists of iridescent medium, triple thick and a little water.If you ever need more sparkle try some iridescent medium! Love that stuff. I then did two coats of triple thick over them and left them to dry for 24hrs.

I used some beading wire and 2 or 3mm Miracle Beads to make antennae for my butterflies. I used some tape to hold them on the back. I added some rhinestones to the butterfly wings and some dangly butterfly charms from the body. The charms were coloured with promarkers and copics.

I wanted to add words but have hit a brick wall lol . . . I know where I want to add them but am not sure if it will ruin the piece or even really how to add them in so they don't. For now I am leaving as is and if I get a brainwave I will add them if not, well I guess it's done lol.
Hope you enjoyed another canvas. Next week will be something different, promise!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I had to add this pic so you could see how the iridescent medium sparkles! It doesn't show up so much in the other pics. You can also see a lil of the sparkle on the canvas itself from the brushed pewter stain . . .

Maya Road Around The World Paint Splatter Cards

The backgrounds for these cards were made using a technique a friend of mine saw in a magazine. Basically you load a toothbrush with paint and run your finger over the paintbrush to get little speckles of paint all over your paper, three or four shades of the same colour work well. Let me tell you it makes a huuuuuge mess lol . . . Best course of action is to make a bunch all at once. That way you have them ready to go as needed. It's supposed to look like whatever that stone they use to make kitchen benches is lol . . .

After the paint has dried, lay a mask over the top of your piece (for this series of cards I used Tattered Angels Tattered Traveler compass) and use Versamark, Perfect Medium etc over the whole piece of cardstock. Remove the mask and then use clear embossing powder over the card. Once that has cooled swipe a white ink pad (non permanent) over the previously masked places for extra contrast.

I have used Maya Roads All Around the world stamp set for the first two cards. Tim Holtz's Sizzix Cogs die on the last card and some Stampers Anonymous stamps. The middle card has a sentiment from Stampin' Up. The sentiments on the last two cards are die cut from Lifestyle Crafts Dies. Any q's feel free to ask in the comments :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering this at:
Make it Monday - Anything Goes 
Ecclectic Ellapu - Masculine
Challenges 4 Everyone - Anything Goes

A Little Experimentation Goes a Long Way

As I said in my previous post I was going to play some more and share the results. I have used stains, watercolour pencils and gelatos and I have a fair few things to share. I am sharing them before I turn them into cards. I think I am getting the hang of the gelatos too :) I have made some very light samples but I can always add more colour if I wish (good thing I have been taking notes on the back of the samples lol).

 Let's start with gelatos. My first attempt was to wet the watercolour paper first, then lay down the colour spritz again and blend with my finger . . . it didn't work very well (might be more to do with the colours I used lol) so I tried again with a brush. That's the sample on the bottom left. Colours used for these samples are Black Licorice, Chocolate and Butterscotch.

For the top sample I applied dry and spritzed three puddles of water on my mat. I started at black and worked to lightest blending with a paintbrush. I added a little too much water in some places so I used a wet brush directly to the gelato I needed to fix the problem . I had so much colour left on my mat that I got sick of wasting it and started using the lefovers on leftover scraps of watercolour paper. That's the image on the bottom right.

The next set were all made when I applied gelatos to a wet surface and blended with a paintbrush for the first gen (top pic). These colours seemed to go on very thick and allowed me to make the original plus two more samples. Colours are Blueberry, Boysenberry and Grape. The second gen, to the right, was made swiping the colours straight off the craft mat and third gen I sprizted the leftovers then applied them to the cs for the third gen pale look on the bottom.

The following two were made at the same time. I applied gelato to my ranger craft mat and spritzed with water to make a light wash. These have only one coat but If I had wanted darker colours I could have just made one and dried in between layers to darken the colours. I used the metallics in Melon, Grape and Mint.

Next up we have a couple done with distress stains. I used three colours for each, spritzed with water and blended them with my finger. When I blend using my finger I tend to work from lightest to darkest then flip and work from lightest to darkest to work the colours into each other and smooth them out. The top one uses Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough and Bundled Sage and has been flicked with water to get the cool droplet effect. The bottom one uses Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick and Worn Lipstick.

I only have two Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and for ome reason one of mine looked nowhere near the colour on the back :( It was supposed to be a really pretty pink but instead there was barely any colour there at all lol. The colour was supposed to be pink bubblegum. I added 20 drops of picked raspberry reinker and a spritz of Dylusions in Postbox Red. I ended up with a colour a bit darker than the colour I was supposed to have but very pretty none the less :)

I used a paintbrush dipped in the bottle and started painting each colour on from their respective ends and blended with my finger in the middle. The yellow is Lemon Zest.

Onto Derwent Watercolour pencils. Each sample uses the same set of colours applied directly to dry paper. The colours are 2, 7, 8, 10 and 12. I spritzed the top one with water then used my finger to blend the colours. I could have added more red but liked the washed out effect and decided to lave it as. The bottom one was blended with the Tim Holtz Waterbrush.

The top picture uses the colours 40, 43, 44, 45, 46 and 47. I used a waterbrush and pulled colour directly from the pencils. I really like this technique. The middle pic uses 18, 21, 22, 24 and 25. I coloured right on the paper for this one and blended with a waterbrush. I spilled a  drop of the mist I mixed onto this one so I decided to make the best of it and used  the spray tube from the bottle to add some drips and lines, sprized again and rand some paper towel over the top to get that faded look.

The bottom pic uses 37, 38, 39, 40 and 44 coloured directly yo the paper. Not sure why I added this pic in the bunch because I cannot remember how I did it lmao.

This next pic uses inktense pencils. I used 1200, 1300 and 1400 straight from the pencil with the waterbrush for the top image and for the bottom one I used the pencils coloured right onto a tag and blended with the waterbrush. As you can see it is very streaky compared o others so water colour paper is definitely best.

I realised as I was typing this that i forgot to do a sample using the waterbrush from the gelato then onto the paper but anyways I am sure you get the idea. Hope this helps you in some way.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple