Golden Butterflies ...

 Well, here we are on the last Friday of April and the end of the first quarter of the year ... I wonder what the rest of the year has install for us.  It is also time to share this week's Visible Image project.

This week I'm back to one of my favourite images ... butterflies!!

The butterflies were stamped and heat embossed and then ...

... water coloured with distress inks

I stamped a background 'square' onto the card base before adhering the butterflies and stamping the sentiment..

I used:

Visible Image - Set the Tone

                       - Go to Words

                       - Wings of Change

Distress Inks - Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade

Stampin Up - Limeade Ink

Stay Safe and Keep Crafting!

April Snow ...

 It is hard to believe that it is April as we got up this morning to a covering of snow and for it to still be snowing ... it just shows how strange the weather can be as now (afternoon) the snow has gone and the sun is shining brightly!  Oh well, at least it gives me something to talk about!!!

I finished off a card tis morning that was in response to a couple of challenges:

It was only when I photographed the card that I realised I had been influenced by the weather!!  I haven't created a bokeh effect card for simply years!!!  I'm not sure why or how it popped into my head as a possibility but it did - I do like the way it adds some interest to the background.

I ink blended the background using two distress inks and then used a stencil to blend the dots through to create the bokeh effect.  I had already stamped and masked the flower before creating the background so once it was dry I just had to colour the image and add the sentiment.

I used:

Visible Image - Creative Chaos Stamp set, Two Tone Stencil and Go to Words stamp set.

Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron and Picked Raspberry

I am entering the following challenge:

TIME OUT Challenge #185

I took inspiration from the colours and the flowers centred in the photograph.

Keep Crafting!

Best wishes ... and exciting news!

 Well exciting news ... April has turned out to be the best month of 2021 (so far anyway!) ... so what is my news I hear you ask ... I've joined the Visible Image Instagram design team!  It is a real boost to have been invited to join the team and I'm really looking forward to working with the amazing company and the other designers. 

This is my first project which is being shared on Instagram

First up I stamped and heat embossed the corners with the Fibonacci background stamp - before water colouring with distress inks.

I had already stamped and heat embossed the flower from the Creative Chaos stamp set and coloured it with some acrylic paint as I really wanted the colour to be intense - I don't have a yellow ink that would work.  I fussy cut the image before adhering it to the panel with foam adhesive along with the sentiment.

I spritzed the corners with water before dropping in the distress ink and then sprayed it again to spread the ink and to get it to pool between the embossed stamping.

I left a small white border when I fussy cut the flower

I used:

Visible Image - Fibonacci

                      - Creative Chaos

                         - Go to Words

Distress Inks - Squeezed Lemonade and Spiced Marmalade

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

WOW Clear Embossing Powder

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