Twinkle

Hi everyone, the theme for this month’s ATC swap in the Visible Image FB group is “Twinkle”, so I decided to join in with this beautiful silhouette butterfly which struck me as perfect for heat embossing with a glitter embossing powder 😀 I made both an ATC and matching card .. the card is a little smaller than usual at 5” x 5” due to the dinky size of the butterfly image, but it is a great size for an ATC swap. I can post these now as my swap partner has received them!

First … the card.

I cut a square of stamping card and colour washed with watered down Cosmic Shimmer paint to create a pearlescent background sheen. I then stamped my butterfly background stamp with blue Memento dye ink, then stamped and heat embossed my main butterfly with glitter embossing powder .. it really twinkles! I stamped and heat embossed my wordings in Twilight VFC and clear embossing powder, then stamped my spatters and heat embossed in silver. Finally I added a few more random silver spatters with my Posca pen and a couple of silver heart gems, and matted onto blue glitter card and matte silver card, and attached to my card base.  

Here is an angled pic to capture the sparkle and pearlescent background.

Stamps: Visible Image VI Minis #1 (butterfly), Butterfly Effect (background and wordings), Christmas Robin (spatter);

Media: Cosmic Shimmer paint (Marine Sea); Memento dye ink (Summer Sky); Versafine Clair (Twilight); Versamark; WOW embossing glitter (Midnight Dream); clear and silver embossing powders.

Challenges I would like to enter:

A Gem of a Challenge #23 2022 - Anything Goes

Cards 4 Galz #185 - Watercolour Background, Image or Both

Crafty Catz #613 - Anything Goes with option 3 or More Layers

Creative Inspirations (November) - Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle! (2nd entry)

Dare 2B Artzy (November) - Non-Birthday

Fab 'n' Funky #560 - Shades of Blue (2nd entry)

NBUS #44 - Use Your Never-Before-Used-Schtuff

(Mine is the silhouette butterfly and spatter stamps)

Sheepski #68 - Gems, Glitter, Sparkle (2nd entry)

Three Room Studio #91 - Embossing

Word Art Wednesday #569/570 - Anything Goes 

And here is the ATC .. same method and materials as above apart from no silver card.

Challenges I would like to enter:

ATC’s With a Heart #122 - Anything Goes 

Classic Design Challenge #11 2022 - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore (November) - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar (November) - Anything Goes

DL.Art (November) - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2245 - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede #455 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Try It On Tuesday - Sparkle and Shine (3rd entry)

Worldwide Open Design Team Challenge #10 2022 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

That’s all for today. Thanks for dropping by.

Hugs,