Quintuple Embossing

By
I'm very late joining in with this month's CAS Stencil challenge, the COVID-19 situation has meant I am busier than ever with work and supporting family who are unable to go out.  This little Easter card started as an experiment in triple heat embossing through a stencil but I ended up embossing five layers on the butterfly's 'eyes' so quintupled!



Using a small VersaMark ink pad and glossy cardstock the main butterfly shape was inked then double embossed with silver pearl EP through this stencil which I've had for years.  Using the circles from large to small I inked and heat embossed with yellow, then orange, then red EP so in total five embossed layers for the 'eyes'.  In the background are Woodware stamps using Distress Oxide inks to stamp and colour.  The antenna on the butterfly is not quite how I imagined it though but never mind!




I've used - 4x4" white card base
Clarity one-sided glossy card
Mag covermount stencil
Various embossing powders
Woodware Countryside Stems stamp set
Distress Oxide inks
Mag covermount sentiment stamp

Linking up with -

CAS Stencil March 2020 Challenge









Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x

Comments

  1. VivMonday, 23 March, 2020

    Am so glad you managed to join my challenge at CAS Stencil this month Steph! Lots of lovely embossing on your bold butterfly and a really nice card!

    ReplyDelete
  2. nancy littrellTuesday, 24 March, 2020

    Gorgeous heat embossed CAS stenciled Butterfly card, Steph. So pleased you joined us at CAS Stencil. Hugs..Nancy

    ReplyDelete
  3. ClurTuesday, 24 March, 2020

    Gorgeous card Steph Clare x

    ReplyDelete
  4. As.I.Do.Rodos.Tuesday, 24 March, 2020

    Beautiful card Stay safe Ginny ♥
    My Blog As I do Rodos

    ReplyDelete
  5. Julia AstonWednesday, 25 March, 2020

    What lovely multiple color embossing on the wings of your beautiful butterflies Steph! thanks for sharing with us at CAS Stencil! xx

    ReplyDelete
  6. Alison59Wednesday, 25 March, 2020

    WOW Steph this is so beautiful and bright; just what we need at this awful time :-)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Thank you for taking a moment to visit ... I read and appreciate every comment you have time to leave. Steph x

Popular posts from this blog

Autumn Days

By
Image
Autumn is one of my favourite seasons, looking forward to the rich colours of the changing leaves, squirrels busy collecting fallen acorns, fungi raising their heads above ground and seeing sunflowers still in bloom.  This card was made for a September birthday. I made my own background panel (pictured below) with two distress oxide inks smooshed on it before dry embossing with a layered leaves stencil. Stencilled on top of the raised embossing with various dye inks then used the second layering stencil to just ink the tops of the acorns.  Panel matted on burgundy cardstock.  Wanted to use a recent sale purchase of an Apple Blossom die set which creates a circular shaped puzzle centrepiece and chose a sunflower patterned paper from a recent magazine along with the same burgundy cardstock for the frame.  Once paper pieced back together this was mounted on the background panel. The fungi and butterfly are printed transparency images which were gifted to me, these I've ...
Read more

Woodware Birthday Grid meets Distress Oxides

By
Image
My first post for 2019 and I'm sharing a card made with some new purchases ... I've finally bought some Distress Oxides so had a play and created an inky background.  Using three colours (spiced marmalade, cracked pistachio & squeezed lemonade) I decided to do a combination of inking on and through a stencil mask with a bit of water spritzing as well.  I quite like that the colours stay on top of each other without affecting the colours underneath and it's definitely a lovely chalky finish. Another new purchase was the Woodware birthday grid stamp by Jane Gill, I do like the grid arrangement of all the sentiments leaving two spaces so you can add other images to suit.  I've added social media type die cuts as this is a card for a male who's always on his mobile phone 😊.  Final touch was randomly stamping a filmstrip down one side and adding #smile in the corner. I've used -  5x7 white card base Distress Oxide Inks on  Clarity Stencil Card Th...
Read more

100 Birthday Wishes

By
Image
Made for the uncle of a crafting friend celebrating his 100th birthday who still enjoys a bit of gardening.  Card Making Magic's Spring Garden stamp set that came with issue 119 of Creative Stamping seemed ideal to use and I also wanted to have lots of colour so what better than a rainbow background. Distress oxide inks were brushed over a stencil to create the abstract background then water drops flicked over to create some interest.  Gardening images stamped in brown ink directly onto the panel with masks used so the hand tools could be stamped behind the flower pots.  Images were coloured with a mixture of polychromos, metallic pencils and gel pens with added white gel pen highlights. Number 100 stamped in green ink with a bracket below again with some white gel highlights ... a topiary sculpture maybe?  White embossed sentiment on the same colour card as the matt layer. I've used - 6x6" white card base Issue 119 Creative Stamping covermount Claritystamp abstract ...
Read more