Moonlight

Hello I'm sharing some more of my cards I made for Chocolate Baroque for the July show on The Craft Store.

 

My first cards use the Majestic Crane stamp set.

First I stamped and embossed the Crane image in silver onto black card.  I then mixed some blue mica powders with a little water to make a "paint" and used this to colour the crane, moon, reeds and water. I finished with one of the sentiments from the set and layered onto some silver mirror card.

For my second card I used watercolour pencils to colour. I also used the tops of the grasses from the next set of stamps to frame the crane.

My next card uses the Walk Tall stamp set. A lovely mix of grasses, berry stems and sentiments.

For this card I stamped the Berry stems in VersaMark and embossed in white over a Distress Oxide on photo paper background.

I have a quick tutorial on how to do the Oxide on Photo Paper background.

First choose 3 or 4 Distress Oxides. I used Antique Linen, Speckled Egg, Peeled Paint and Dusty Concorde.

Taking one of the colours, press it onto a craft mat and spritz with water.

Dip your piece of photo paper in and dry, repeat a couple of time.

Note - try different photo papers, some work better than others. 

I am using Wilkinson's  A4 Glossy Premium Photo paper.

Repeat with the other colours one at a time.

At this stage it looks quite chalky due to the oxidisation. 

So get a damp piece of paper towel and wipe away the chalky finish to reveal the bright colours below. 

(Picture shows the different halves.)

Finished piece, because each individual layer was dried the colours seem to float over each other. 

Just a couple more notes - Distress Inks do not work with this technique, it has to be Oxides. Glossy card does not work either, it has to be photo paper. 

Thanks for looking

Sandra x