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Here is an invitation that I made using lots of techniques - stamping, embossing, blending, die cutting and even using 'Shrinky -dinks"!
I was inspired to use the tag shape from watching Tim Holtz tutorial's and really wanted to use some of the techniques. I have a love of butterflies - so had lots of fun making my butterfly army :)
Here is an invitation that I made using lots of techniques - stamping, embossing, blending, die cutting and even using 'Shrinky -dinks"!
I was inspired to use the tag shape from watching Tim Holtz tutorial's and really wanted to use some of the techniques. I have a love of butterflies - so had lots of fun making my butterfly army :)
I started with the butterflys - cutting them from acetate with the 'cuttlebug' die. I used the 'Ranger' alcohol inks from 'Tim Holtz' collection to colour the acetate and then used 'kaisercraft' stamps which had a nice swirl pattern, the butterflies were a similar size which helped with stamping. I used the 'Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink' to stamp the pattern so that it would dry on the acetate. 'Ranger liquid pearls' added the final touch - I used 2 colours - 'onyx pearl' on the ones I used for table decorations and 'platinum' for the butterflies on the invitation - I also used the 'platinum liquid pearls' on the swirls on the tag.
The small tag attached to the bottom of the invitation details had the date for the occasion - I don't have a close up photo of this - this brought back many childhood memories of shrinking chip packets in the oven - I had stamped 'shrink-dinks' shrink film acetate with a swirl pattern, coloured with alcohol inks and using a printed template on plain paper behind the film used a marker to write the details. I used my heat tool to 'shrink' them and they made the cutest little tags! Attaching it to the bottom balanced the dimension on the tag with the butterfly.
The small tag attached to the bottom of the invitation details had the date for the occasion - I don't have a close up photo of this - this brought back many childhood memories of shrinking chip packets in the oven - I had stamped 'shrink-dinks' shrink film acetate with a swirl pattern, coloured with alcohol inks and using a printed template on plain paper behind the film used a marker to write the details. I used my heat tool to 'shrink' them and they made the cutest little tags! Attaching it to the bottom balanced the dimension on the tag with the butterfly.
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Making the tag itself - first was to clear emboss the swirl pattern - I used a stamp from my stash from 'Stampin' up' - this was used for the first step in the resist technique. I then layered stamps from the 'Stamp it' collection creating the background and used lots of ink to blend.
What ink do you ask? Well of course I used my favourite inks! 'Tim Holtz Distress Inks' - which blend beautifully! The tag base was white - so the colours all came from blending the inks.
The final step now for the resist technique on the swirl - I didn't want the raised edge from the embossing so I removed the clear embossing by layering with scrap paper - and ironing it. Yep - ironed it! The embossing melted and absorbed into the paper and left the beautiful swirl.
The final step was to put it all together and add the 'liquid pearls'.
What ink do you ask? Well of course I used my favourite inks! 'Tim Holtz Distress Inks' - which blend beautifully! The tag base was white - so the colours all came from blending the inks.
The final step now for the resist technique on the swirl - I didn't want the raised edge from the embossing so I removed the clear embossing by layering with scrap paper - and ironing it. Yep - ironed it! The embossing melted and absorbed into the paper and left the beautiful swirl.
The final step was to put it all together and add the 'liquid pearls'.
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There was a lot of work in creating these which made them really special. I love how they turned out!
Thanks for visiting NICS :)
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