Hero Arts Challenge

If you follow the Hero Arts blog you will know that they run regular challenges with lots of great prizes.  I haven’t entered for ages but I was inspired this month to create a flowery card matching the colour theme of pink, pool, green, neutral & white.

The flowers were coloured with pink & green shades of Smooch Inks and accented with a few tiny pearls.  The butterfly was coloured with Copics & coated with some Ranger crackle accents.  I loved how it softened the strong Copic colours.

A close up of the crackle effect.

Inkurable October Challenge

The challenges keep coming at Inkurable Stampers and this time we are to use orange, green and purple plus neutrals of white/black/brown if needed.

This colour palette is not one I use regularly so it was an interesting exercise. As I have a class coming up featuring the batik technique, I thought I would give that a go. It gave me a chance to use my new Darkroom Door Bold Blossoms set.

Essentially the batik technique tries to mimic the look of batik fabric – normally done with wax as a resist to the dyeing medium. In this technique, the image is stamped and embossed with clear ink/powder and the background is coloured with inks etc – on this card I used Distress Inks. Once happy with the result, the piece is covered with a bit of paper towel and ironed with a dry iron. The heat from the iron removes the embossing powder and leaves a lovely 'flat' image which leaves people guessing.