Some new cards

I thought I would share some of the things I made at the open days at Graphicus this weekend.  I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t actually been doing as much artwork as I would like, so two days of demonstrating was an absolute joy.  Thank you to everyone who came along – I hope you all had fun?  For those that couldn’t make it, here’s some eye candy for you.

This is made with Prima flowers which have been painted with Shimmerz paints – something new that we will be getting onto the website soon.  They are very sparkly paints and work beautifully on the flowers.  The flourish under the word is also something new – it’s laser cut chipboard from Australia and the delicacy of the designs is amazing.  The flourish has been inked with pigment ink, then embossed with kaleidascope embossing powder, followed by clear embossing powder.  The finish is just gorgeous.  The background to the flowers is stamped with one of the new Brocade stamps and the whole thing is mounted onto a piece of Hambley scrapbook paper.

Another of the Aussie chipboard pieces on a glimmer misted tag, stamped with that yummy brocade background again.  I love the little heart shapes on the end of the feelers.  Same technique with embossing was done on this one too, just different colours.  The gems ont the body are yet another new product for us – Dew Drops – little flat bead embellishments glued on with Glossy Accents.

This next piece was a complete experiment and I just love how it has turned out.

We have a new paint called Ferro which is a metallic paint with a lot of texture.  The finish is almost like a shimmery sandpaper and it is very thick, so I came up with the idea of using it over one of the glimmer screens.  I used a palette knife to ‘butter’ it over the screen and left it to dry.  Once dry, I used coloursoft pencils over it to create the multi-coloured background.  The pencils blend together beautifully over this background and you can still see the original deep pink colour showing through in places.  I coloured the unpainted butterfly part with a blue memento marker, then gave the whole thing a good spritz of pearl Glimmer Mist.

Here’s some more of that amazing chipboard – two different dragonflies showing just how fine the cutting is and dew drops again on the dragonfly body.

This one is a very tall card – it’s 12 inches tall, using almost half a sheet of scrapbook paper.  The tag is quite large and  just thought this paper set it off really well.

The tag was sprayed with Glimmer Mists (Coffee Shop and Auburn I think) then embossed with Aqua Tinsel embossing powder.  The greeting was also glimmer misted with a new colour, Summer Skies and a hint of Coffee Shop, edged with Potters Clay memento ink.  Here’s a close up of the tag – you can see the engraved pattern on the bottom wings of the dragonfly.

And finally, here’s a tag made with Grungeboard and Wendy Vecchi stamps.

The grungeboard was painted with the Shimmerz paints and curled gently with a bone folder and mounted onto a tag coloured with – you guessed it, Glimmer Mists.

Well I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing some of the demo pieces.  We will get some new videos done for the blog soon – I am all fired up to get some new demonstrations filmed, so watch this space.