Butterfly Blues

At SU Only Challenges this week the focus is on butterflies. If you love butterflies you should check out all their wonderful creations.

I have only just bought this Swallowtail image and couldn’t wait to try colouring it.





I stamped the image on crumbcake using Island Indigo and clear embossed it.  Then I painted the “lighter” areas with white ink using my aqua painter and let it dry.  I then used a blender pen and island indigo, baja and razzleberry markers to colour the butterfly, blending it into the white.  I added some white highlights too with the white pen and then cut it out.  I actually stamped it twice so that I could cut the body part out and have it slightly above the wings.  This was the first time I’ve tried this colouring technique and I was really happy with the result.

I also tried the Chalkboard Technique for the first time on this card too.  Simple, but effective!


Ingredients :
Stamps : Swallowtail, Vintage Verses
Card : baja, white, crumbcake, black
Ink : versamark, white, island indigo, markers (razzleberry, baja, indigo)
Other : blender pen, white ep, button (SAB), bakers twine, white pencil


I REALLY didn’t need another butterfly in my collection to be honest but it is so beautiful I couldn’t resist any longer!  Now that I’ve coloured it, I am so glad I bought it, it was so much fun!


Kathy

By The Midnight Shore

This week at still addINKtive we are showcasing two stamp sets :  By The Seashore and By The Tide.
I also found a great sketch to inspire me at Pals Paper Arts this week. I love square sketches!



By The Seashore is my newest set and I absolutely love it!   There are just so many different ways of using it and so many different stamping techniques to try with it too.  It’s the kind of set I really enjoy playing with, although with all the endless possibilities it was hard for me to actually complete a card. I had all these stamping experiments strewn all over my desk and I had to make myself stop and just finish something.





The blue shell was one of those experiments that didn’t turn out how I intended but I was really happy with the result.  There were some beautiful cards on Splitcoast last week using a technique I hadn’t seen before.  They had used crumb cake, painted white craft ink over the image and then coloured over the top with markers once dry.  I thought I would try it on that shell but I had forgotten that they white embossed their image first.  I stamped in midnight muse and started painted the white ink over it with my aqua painter, well obviously the blue just started running into the white! (Duh!!)  But I realised it looked really effective anyway so I kept going with it.  So anyway I made a new discovery, watercolouring with white ink!  I’m not sure how useful that discovery will be, but at least it works on shells :)


Ingredients :
Stamps : By The Seashore. Vintage Verses
Card : crumb cake. white, print poetry dsp stack
Ink : midnight muse, white, crumb cake
Other : mat pack, gel pen, aquapainter :)


Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have created.  If you have one of these sets I hope you’ll make a new card with it or show us some that you’ve made previously.  Oh and if you don’t own By The Seashore – you definitely should! :)


Kathy

Only One

 

This week at still addINKtive we are showcasing 3 Sale-a-bration sets : Madison Avenue, Feeling Sentimental and Vintage Verses.

I have used Vintage Verses.  The sentiments in this set are just beautiful!

One of my daughters teachers is unwell and hasn’t returned to work yet this year. We thought it would be nice to send her a card and I had originally thought of making a get well card or thinking of you but then I noticed  this sentiment and thought it would be perfect.  She is a very special teacher and we wanted to let her know how much she is appreciated and missed.

I decided to use the still addINKtive colour combo from a couple of weeks ago, pink pirouette, river rock and suede.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Vintage verses, Flowering flourishes

Card : white, suede, pink pirouette, river rock

Ink : river rock, suede

Other : corner rounder punch, white grosgrain, houndstooth ef, delicate designs ef, vintage faceted buttons, pearls, big shot, boho punch, shimmer mist champagne

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have made this week and join us :)

Kathy

Vintage Seashore

 

This week at still addINKtive we have a sketch and colour challenge for you.

You might choose to do them both but you can just choose the colours or just the sketch.  Whatever you get inspiration from!

I decided to use the 2 newest editions to my stamp shelf, Vintage Verses and By the Seashore.

 

I was looking at cards made with the Seashore set and came across a great tutorial by Sharon Field for a technique called Faux Cheesecloth.  She even used bashful blue in one of her samples and I just had to give it a try.  It looks like netting (or cheesecloth) and is super easy yet very effective.

All the stamping on this card is clear embossed espresso.  The middle shell is stamped onto crumb cake but the other two are stamped onto vanilla.  I sponged a little crumb cake onto the shells, added a few white pen highlights and cut them out.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : By the Seashore, Vintage Verses, woodgrain

Card : vanilla, crumb cake, white, bashful blue, espresso, first edition dsp

Ink : espresso, crumb cake, versamark

Other : big shot, top note, labels framelit, clear embossing powder, white embossing powder, linen thread

 

The design team have created some really beautiful cards again this week.  I hope you’ll take a look and play along with us.

 

Kathy