Technique Tuesday - Butterfly Brilliance

 This week I am using theses gorgeous stamps that have the most beautiful butterflies. Without any fibs, I am having a ball with the Butterfly Brilliance stamp! I have always liked butterfly stamp sets anyway but I love the fact that all 6 are on the one stamp. As I said yesterday, I was rather decadent. I bought a second set too! The reason is that I wanted to make my life easier and I cut up the first one which gave me all 6 individual butterflies!!

Anyway, the card today I used a piece of the Butterfly Bijou 6" x 6" double sided paper that was available when the stamps were first issued. The papers have butterflies all over the one side then simple patterns including an ombre design on the reverse. Simply gorgeous! I stamped the whole stamp again onto a white mat using Gray Granite ink. It's a medium gray so not as light as yesterday's but not as dark as Basic Gray which is very dark. I cut the mat in half down the length of it and trimmed it shorter too. 

Today's technique is the babywipe technique. I used 3 baby wipes and placed them into an empty stamp case. I used Ink Refills in So Saffron, Daffodil Delight and Flirty Flamingo. Normally, using this technique I would tap the stamps onto the inked up baby wipes and use it as an ink pad. This time I used a dry paint brush and mixed ink from the wipes and brushed it over the butterfly that I chose to colour. Each time I picked up the ink, it changed the colours on the butterfly. I'm really pleased with how it came out too. I then mounted the mat onto Pacific Point card using 3D foam (Dimensionals). A simple message from the Butterfly Wishes stamp set and it is complete.

 

Technique Tuesday - Ornate Garden Suite

 My goodness, it has got so cold here this week, I may have to resort to putting my thermals on!! 😁😂

On a better note though, it's lovely and warm indoors where my duties include looking after my gorgeous grandson Theo. All week! Mummy and Daddy are both working so good old Nana duties are back! He is growing so fast. 10 and a half months old now and shooting up. He is such a character too, he loves to copy and repeat things that I say to him too. In his way of course. 

Anyway, I could talk about him all day but I won't bore you. Today's card is a very quick and easy technique called the spotlight technique. It gives a really lovely effect when done as I have or just using 1 larger image as the spotlight. I used 1/2" and 3/4" small punches to get my images just so and like the way it looks. I also used the 1" circle punch too which is still current. 

Talking of retired products, today is the start of Stampin' Up! Year End Close Out Sale. Follow the link to the shop HERE and you will see all of the reduced products from the current August - December 2020 Mini catalogue.  OMG! There is so much on special offer with many reductions of 10% to 50% AMAZING OFFERS!!!!

I am a firm believer that if you bought a product from Stampin' Up! and for whatever reason it has since been retired, we must continue to use them. Yes, I do use the amazing new products too of course but I cannot bear to part with my punches. I LOVE THEM! 

I have used Rich Razzleberry and So Saffron card base and mat for this one today. I think the colours really complement each other from the dark red of the Rich Razzleberry and the muted yellow of So Saffron. The image was stamped onto 2 different white mats. Only 1 was coloured in. I used Blends pens for mine in Rich Razzleberry, Calypso Coral, So Saffron and Granny Apple Green. Once coloured, I randomly punched out the image and then mounted several of the images onto the mat on the card. Adding a few messages from the Ornate Thanks stamp set from the suite. There were a few of the little punched shapes left over and I added them inside.

If you would like to know more about the suite or other Stampin' Up! products, please follow the link to our shop HERE  It will open up a new window for you.