Back with something creative!

Well, my comeback to blogging didn’t go quite as I expected. I photographed a heap of projects to post, but I have been super busy at work and then I ended up getting sick this week, so they’ve been on the backburner!

I have already had a couple of entries into a challenge I set for my customers in my monthly newsletter so I will share more details on that, and the entries, this week. If you would like to know more about the challenge, shoot me an email (funksta_nicki@yahoo.com.au) and I will send you the newsletter, which includes my upcoming class schedule.

But today, I wanted to sit down and have a play with an idea I’ve had floating around in my head for the last week or so. I’m sure variations have been done of this before, but I don’t recall ever seeing a tutorial or anything so I sat down to have a play. What I wanted to do, was create a random pattern on glossy cardstock with versamark, emboss it with clear embossing powder and then brayer over, or sponge over with ink. Now, this technique is well known as emboss resist, but the little spin I put on it, was to create my pattern using something other than stamps! Firstly I tried with glad wrap, then cellophane and lastly baking paper. 

See how the different papers and plastics, give different results. I do have a project in mind with these pieces, but I put them aside, while I had a play with Keesh’s sketch challenge for this week. Í’m sure you are wondering why I mentioned the technique, but stay with me!

The sketch;

And my entry;

Is my rambling above making any sense yet? I used the technique on my butterfly!!! I got there eventually

The colour scheme I used is Crumb Cake, Night of Navy and Marina Mist. Other features include a double bow (you can learn an easy and ‘peaceful’ way to tie this bow by watching this video on the super talented Teneale’s blog), an antique brad and some dry embossing. To be honest, I’m not totally sure that the butterfly completely matches the look of the rest of the card! What do you think. Should I change the way I’ve done the butterflies? I’d love some feedback!

Anyway, thanks for stopping by. I’ll hopefully be back soon

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