Butterfly Wishes - Branch Extension!

The last of my little Butterfly Wishes trio...  And one where I had to be artistic..

So Direct Marker inking again of the lovely blossoms stamp... and stamping... on the central white panel... and then re-inking and stamping down from the right hand side on the card blank front

But obviously there was a gap! As circled... though I wish that I had thought to take a quick photo...

So I grabbed my Early Espresso ink pad and a Blender pen... picked up some Early Espresso ink (either after a squeeze and pick up from the lid.. or naughtily like me (as I was in a rush!)... direct from the ink pad itself!)...

And just drew a line in... which lines up perfectly with my stamped panel... and which just disappears under the panel/mat...

I laid my stamped white panel roughly in position on the card blank to work out how far I needed to extend that line...

Note that I used the Stampin Blend as I didn't want a perfect straight line... which would have resulted if I had used Stampin Markers or Stampin Blends ...and the Stampin Blends would have gone through my one layer card blank in any case

Butterfly Wishes - Faux Embossing or Shadow Stamping...

Loving it in the Crumb Cake...

With the good old Shadow Stampin or Ghost Stamping or Faux Embossing technique...

Although wishing my white shadow was a bit narrower! Didn't need to move my second stamping ( again using the markers as shown yesterday) down quite so much! But now you  know for when you try...

Butterfly Wishes - in the Pinks Part 1

One of a few variants... created using the lovely Butterfly Wishes... featuring some key techniques along the way...

But firstly.... please don't forget to order your Stampin Trimmer Blades (item code 126995...max 3... quote Hostess code WJRJY277 online at 6pm SHARP tonight... More details for you here...

First up... the simple use of markers (Many Marvellous Markers!) to ink up your stamps rather than ink pads... whether greetings or images...

Lovely Lipstick and Mossy Meadow being used here...

And a Quick Tip: Keep the markers as horizontal as you can to protect your brush end...

More Lovely Floral & Calligraphy Essentials

So I took the clean & simple card I made yesterday when I shared the Blender Pen Ombre Technique with you... and carried on colouring some of the embossed areas with my Marker Pens... in Soft Sea Foam and Lemon Lime Twist... 

But then I realised that I had packed my Balmy Blue ready for Monthly Training... so Coastal Cabana and the Blender Pen came to the rescue... as the blending of the Soft Sea Foam & Balmy Blue does look more Coastal Cabana....

Very pretty...

And then the Calligraphy Essentials "thank you" greeting came out... and the same techniques were used on this card... though I will admit that the Coastal Cabana marker pen direct onto the large embossed flower didn't make me 100% happy... 

So I quickly coloured over the whole flower using my trusty AquaPainter & Coastal Cabana ink pad (which I have to point out is a returning all time favourite colour of 90%+ of my crafty ladies!!)... which was better... though I warn you that there is a Part 3 to this tale... some time over the weekend me thinks...

Note that the small flowers are Balmy Blue (with Lemon Lime Twist centres) on this card... 

So here you go... a light bright marker pen blended & embossed duo set of calligraphy cards!

Which one do you prefer?

Dragonfly Dreams - the Stained Glass one...

Following on from Sunday's post... another super CAS (clean & simple) little partial die cut card...

But this time I added colours using the Stained Glass Technique for the dragonfly wings...

Die cut a detailed cardstock and a solid Vellum dragonfly... scribble your marker pens on the vellum one as you desire...

 And then cover with the detailed one... 

Simple but stunning effect... especially when you hold up to a light source.... 

And the dragonfly is finished off with a stamped body part...

And here is a photo of the simple little dragonfly partial die cut duo....