A Smelly Tag!!!!

Back to cardmaking this week and sadly leaving my horsey antics behind!  This week I am sharing a tag that I made during a class I attended in Bristol.  It was made using pixie powders, shaving foam and alcohol inks!

Firstly I started by putting shaving foam into a container and sprinkled with sun yellow and peacock green pixie powders.  When they started to mix with the foam I then took a straw to swirl them together, I then laid the card onto the foam and removed it.  It was covered in foam and when you take off the excess with a ruler it leaves a very interesting pattern on the cardstock.  Once this has dried ............. and by the way it smells gorgeous! ............. I then cut out the tag and embossed it to add a little more texture.

To make the butterflies I stamped a Visible Image butterfly with matt medium and heat embossed it with black powder.  Once this was done I let it cool down and then took clover and sunset yellow alcohol inks and spread them over the back of the butterfly.  By putting the inks on now and cutting later I didn't have to be too careful with applying the inks!  Once this had dried I hand cut the butterflies and placed them onto the tag, folding them up slightly to add some dimension.

The back of the tag is clear to write a message and I thought it best not to put a sentiment on the front so it could be used for any occasion.

Finally I popped some ribbon through the top so there was something to help attach it to a gift.

For this tag I used the following:

Alcohol inks - clover & sunset yellow

Cheap shavng foam

Pixie Powders - peacock green and sun yellow

Heat resistant acetate

Visible Image Butterfly Beginnings stamp

I hope you enjoyed this project, so until next time I will leave with love and crafty hugs!

Ginny x

Shaving Foam!

Yesterday I attended a class with Julia Watts, and as per usual I had a fantastic day!  We made 3 cards in total but today I am going to share just 1 and will share the rest later in the week.

The last card of the day used the shaving foam technique for the background paper.

This is how I used the shaving foam technique:




Firstly we put some shaving foam into an A4 box and then sprayed inks onto the foam.   For this colour combination I used Decadent Teal and Decadent Grape.

Then we took a pricking tool and swirled it around in the foam to mix the colours together - it had to be enough to make the colours flow into each other but not to much so they lost their definition.

Then we placed our cardstock (in this case coconut white) face down in the foam mixture, and made sure that it all came into contact with the foam by pushing down on it gently.  Remove the card from the foam mixture and with a ruler  remove the excess foam and this leaves an imprint of the ink.

Next we cut out the striplets into the cardstock 4 times, layered this on the cardstock above and then made a frame from the pierced rectangles.

We then stamped the sentiment and cut these out decorating with the leaves and flowers.

I can see that this will be a technique I use time and time again as it is very effective and I could have some good fun playing with lots of colours.

The products used were:

Cardstock - Foundations Coconut white & black
Sue Wilson Pierced Flags
Sue Wilson Double Pierced Rectangles
Sue Wilson Butterfly Striplet
Sue Wilson Orange Blossom Flowers - Open Petals
Sue Wilson Orange Blossom Flowers - Complete Petals
Sue Wilson Faux Quilled Leaves
John Lockwood Pierced Flag Sentiments
Creative Expressions Spray Mists - Decadent Grape & Decadent Teal
Shaving Foam
8mm White Pearl
Small Black Circle Dazzlers

I hope you have enjoyed this card and will give it a try - it really was great fun to do!

Until next time.

Ginny x