Lots of Lavender Narrow Notecards Trio

Back to the Lots of Lavender set... which can be yours for free during Sale A Bration with a £45 order...

And a trio of Lavender Narrow Notecards... as I wanted to try out a few techniques in a little set...

So first up... No Line Stamping for the outline stamp with Baby Wipe ink pad for the filler stamp... with the Old Olive leaves just stamped with the stamps in the set...

So I used Smoky Slate for the No Line Stamping... and Rich Razzleberry, Berry Burst, Wisteria Wonder and a tiny bit of Elegant Eggplant inks on my baby wipe... it looks very dark in the photo... but a lot nicer... and more subtle... in my hand! And I reckon that I could have got 20-30 stampings from my Baby Wipe ink pad...

Next up... Marker direct colouring (Elegant Eggplant and Old Olive) on the outline stamp... with Baby Wipe ink pad again for the filler...

And lastly No Line Stamping for the outline... with Marker Thumping for the filler...

I inked up the filler stamp with a Wisteria Wonder ink pad and then marker thumped with Rich Razzleberry, Berry Burst and Elegant Eggplant... needed quite a lot of thumping mind...

And my favourite...definitely the first... looks most effective and is by far the quickest! Just a shame I couldn't take a decent photo! And it was even my second attempt...

CAS Baby Wipe Watercolour Wings

Here is the other card that acccompanied yesterdays. Very simple but so effective...

This was a card we made at Monthly Training a while back... though I had to re-make it as I had a very sludgy butterfly at the time- which served me right as I was last on the baby wipe ink pad - probably doing too much talking or something....

Look closely and you will see lots of fine splatters - all care off a shake/tap of the gold Wink of Stella pen - a great technique demonstrated by Shelli at the April On Stage event.

I say shake or tap as we found that some ladies got it to work with a shake whereas others had to give it a sharp tap... funny how we can all be different doing the same thing!

For more details on the butterfly - just check out yesterdays post...  Greeting from Butterfly Basics... and spot the new Subtles Pink Pirouette Enamel Shapes on the body

And I have just realised that I still haven't shared everyone's favourite butterfly card yet... coming soon... and then I think that it is the end of the butterfly season!

Watercolor Wings Serene Scenery

Some more makes with the Serene Scenery papers today...

With Baby Wipe ink pad butterflies this time...

Everyone loved making these... and for once no-one got stressed that theirs weren't the same as mine!

I used the large background butterfly stamp and antenna from Watercolor Wings - along with the both the Butterflies dies (for the filigree butterfly) and the Bold Butterflies dies (for the baby wipe pad solid butterfly)

The small butterflies and greeting are from the Butterfly Basics set, punched out with the Bitty Butterfly punch. And I used the Blushing Bride sequin trim for the body...

And a tip for you with the trim... though oops no photos...

I cut off a strip of about 5 sequins - plus one extra that I put on a Glue Dot.  I placed Tear N Tape along the body section, wrapped under the thread at one end of my 5 sequins and stuck them to the body part. I then placed the single one on the Glue Dot to cover the other end. 

But you do need to think about the direction that your sequins will lie in...as you want that last sequin to be in the same orientation!