I had a rather successful trip to a lovely charity craft shop yesterday, and one of the things I picked up was a set of two stamps by Hero Arts called 'Two Vine Scrolls'. I did a bit of 'test' stamping, and tured the results into a couple of bookmarks. The stamps are sort of positive and negative images...for the one on the left, I stamped it on to watercolour paper using Versamark Ink, then heat embossed it in gold before adding a watercolour wash of Distress Inks (Broken China, Chipped Sapphire and Dusty Concord). For the one on the right, I inked the stamp using the same Distress Inks, and stamped it on to smooth card...I stamped it a couple of times to get a full impression, but there's a distressed effect to the 'solid' area, so it looks a little like my stamping was rubbish! I then heat embossed it using clear embossing powder before watercolouring the flowers using Cosmic Shimmers pigments. I trimmed the panels down, distressed the edges a little, then backed them with some kraft card.
Challenges for these bookmarks:
- Corrosive - Anything Goes
- Crafters Cafe - Flowers
- Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
- Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
Hi Helen, two beautiful bookmarks, love the one on the right hand side the background looks like a waterfall with the vines in front. Thank you for joining us at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends and good luck in the prize draw...
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Pretty Floral bookmarks, thanks for joining us at the Crafter's Cafe Flower challenge this month
ReplyDeleteThese are gorgeous and so elegant for bookmarks. Love them! Thanks so very much for joining us this time at the Creative fingers Challenge
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