Spread Your Wings

It is challenge time again and this month the challenge at Inkurable Stampers was to use paint!  I love playing with paint and what a better reason to use my newly purchased Viva Precious Metal Colour!

The card uses a 14 cm square white card base.  The strip on the left is punched with a Martha Steward punch.  The pale blue cardstock was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The circles were punched from scrap, the flourish ones were punched from some gorgeous embossed ‘wedding’ paper that I sponged with Distress ink to give a bit of colour.  The words are from Darkroom Door Love Birds set.

The birdcage is die cut from chipboard & painted with Viva Precious Metal Colour (cinnamon) and backed with a piece of textured velum.  The bird was painted with Distress Crackle Paint in broken china.  I rubbed the wing over with a bit of the matching ink before coating with Glossy Accents.  If you look closely the branch and the birds legs are painted two different browns in the Crackle Paint – I find it defines the legs a bit.

Bookmark Inspiration

The last month seems to have been so busy that I have barely had time to craft. I couldn't miss doing a bookmark for the latest Inkurable Stampers challenge though.  Make sure you have a look at Sarah’s blog this month – there is lots of inspiration.

My bookmark was created using plain white cardstock as a base.  I stamped it with the Darkroom Door Criss-Cross background stamp in pearlescent lime Brilliance ink.  The tag was then sponged with Adirondack dye ink – citrus, pool & lemonade.  The cool thing about the Brilliance ink is that it acts as a resist against the ink and the pearlescent effect shows through.  The quote is from Darkroom Door Art De Fleur Vol 1 set.

Then it was a simple matter to set an eyelet in the top, tie some ribbon and attach some lace down the left hand side.  The flower was made from some velvety leaves & layered Kaiser flowers.

I loved how the colours worked so well together – I hope you do too!