Destination Inspiration - June Recipe #2

Hello, Anne (Redanne) here to welcome you to the second in our series of Destination Inspiration posts for June, where one of our Creative Guides uses a 'recipe' chosen by four Creative Guides.

   The recipe for June is:  

                

Product : Any Tattered Die

Colour: Walnut Stain

Technique : Layering Stencil and Texture Paste

Substrate : Watercolour Paper

As there are a lot of birthdays coming up in July, I have made a card which can easily be replicated time and again:

The card was made using the wonderful Wallflower paper stack by Tim Holtz.

The base (at the top of the pic) is watercolour paper.  As it is the base I have just used a piece of watercolour paper from a fairly inexpensive paper pad.  Watercolour paper takes Distress Inks really well - I used Walnut Stain Distress Ink and then scuffed up the edges.

The remaining three pieces of Wallflower papers were scuffed up and then edged with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

The butterflies were cut and embossed using Tim's Butterfly Duo set and Ranger's Distress Watercolour Cardstock.  This is excellent quality cardstock and I will keep the die cut scrap to use as a stencil, it is far too good to throw away!

I wanted to colour the embossing paste and I simply put some Walnut Stain Distress Ink on my glass mat and mixed in some of Wendy Vecchi's Crackle Texture Paste.  A re-inker would work well to colour the paste too but I did not have one in the colour I wanted.  As I wanted a more subtle look the Distress Ink was perfect.

The stencil is Tim's Flourish one and to avoid stencilling more than I wanted I masked some of the design off.  If you are very careful you don't need to mask the design but as I am a messy crafter it works much better this way for me!  Remember to clean your stencil straight away, after scraping off as much paste as possible (and put it back in the pot) I lay mine on a wet baby wipe and use another baby wipe to wipe off the surface.

I let the paste dry naturally and if you look closely you will see some lovely small cracks in the paste.  If you want larger cracks then just apply the paste more thickly.  I mounted the pasted sheet to one side of the card.

Using the Tattered Florals Thinlets die I cut some flowers.  I was a little worried about using this set of dies, because I have dexterity issues, but the quilling tool that comes with the dies made curling the flowers so easy that I carried on and made a whole set of flowers - they are just adorable dinky little flowers!

The butterfly was coloured using Twisted Citron Distress Ink (love that colour!) and Walnut Stain Distress Ink, I coloured both sides as I wanted the wings to be raised up.  The ribbon and the teeny, tiny flowers were coloured with Abandoned Coral Distress Spray Stain.  The flowers make up the body of the butterfly.

I layered all the pieces up and added 'with love' using Tim's Simple Sayings stamp set and Wendy Vecchi's Archival ink in Potting Soil.

Thanks so much for your visit, please visit again next Monday to see what the next Creative Guide does with the same recipe.

It would be lovely to see you join in our latest challenge too.  Sandy is our host and the theme is Celebrations.  Thanks again, Hugs, Anne xxx