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Monday 16 January 2012

Winter's butterflies

It's challenge time at Tando Creative - our theme this month is "Ice White" and there's a photo for inspiration. You can check it out here if you'd like to play along and be in with a chance of a lovely prize in a random draw of all players.

I used an ATC base - the chipboard is perfect for this as you need a thick layer of gesso and a lighter weight base tends to buckle with the moisture and weight of it. Once I had a thick layer of gesso, I spritzed my stamps with water to help them release and stamped to leave textured impressions. I left if overnight to dry and then added a couple of extra snowflakes heat embossed with white powder so that there are both debossed and raised snowflake impressions.

I took inspiration from the silver pot in the picture and used silver for the sentiment. I didn't have an appropriate stamp so to get the words I wanted, I printed on an inkjet printer and quickly covered with detail embossing powder.

Glass glitter around the edges and a white rose finish it off.

Stamps:
Grunge Flakes (Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous)

Paper:
Chipboard ATC (Tando Creative)
Cryogen White (for sentiment strip)

Other:
Gesso
Versamark ink
Detail white embossing powder
Detail silver embossing powder
Inkjet printer
Deko Ice Glitter by Efco (Crystal)
Rose (Wild Orchid Crafts)

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15 comments:

  1. Paula Whittaker16 January 2012 at 10:48

    wow love the effect...I wonder if a wooden box or a photo frame would look as good done this same way.

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  2. Crafting Queen16 January 2012 at 12:19

    Beautiful creation, love the clean colours and great textures.

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  3. tracy16 January 2012 at 13:38

    thats really pretty joanne ;)

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  4. Kath16 January 2012 at 14:16

    Lovely. A very calming piece of work.

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  5. Kaz16 January 2012 at 14:20

    Brilliant Joanne, I love both the textures you've used xx

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  6. Karen16 January 2012 at 15:49

    This is beautiful Joanne xxx

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  7. Rachelxx16 January 2012 at 19:20

    Lovely Joanne - delicate but with texture interest :-)

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  8. Kaowyn16 January 2012 at 21:57

    I particularly like the texture that you've obtained with the snowflakes. Thank you also for explaining your techniques so clearly.

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  9. cookcreateread16 January 2012 at 22:08

    Beautiful Joanne! Great technique :)

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  10. Di17 January 2012 at 10:39

    This is fabulous Joanne, so beautiful xx

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  11. Traceyr18 January 2012 at 22:45

    That glass glitter is really sparkly and I love the debossed and raised snowflakes too.


    :)

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  12. Sam & Poppy19 January 2012 at 14:02

    Stunning! :o)

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  13. Unknown27 January 2012 at 10:32

    My word this is stunning. At first glance I thought it was beautiful lace! But it's even more beautiful to see and now know that it is very clever stamping. Amazing

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  14. Carole29 January 2012 at 04:20

    I love the idea that snowflakes are winter butterflies! The card is just lovely!

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  15. Eloise13 February 2012 at 21:42

    all i got to say is WOW!

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