Good evening folks, as you can imagine I was uber excited to find out that I was to be included in Paperartsy's 3UP project. When the stamps arrived I could hardly contain my excitement and I set about planning my project. The challenge was to use JoFy stamps along with inks. Using JoFy's stamps are never a chore more of a joy and I'm always thrilled with the crisp clear stamping that the stamps produce.
To the grunge paste dandies I added some aquamarine Treasured gold and later added some dots using a white pen.
The dragonfly, from set #13, was stamped first onto a dictionary page and heat embossed with holographic embossing powder and then onto some watercolour card. I water coloured with seedless preserves. The wings were fussy cut and applied to the dictionary dragonfly. He looks as though he may flutter off the canvas!
I decided for this project that I wanted to work on a small box canvas. Read on to find out how I created my mini canvas of blooms and flutters!
I started of by applying some torn dictionary pages, I then scrapped some gesso over the canvas to leave behind some texture.
I applied my chosen colours of distress inks to the canvas using a blending tool. Peacock feathers is one of my favourite distress ink colours.
Through a JoFy stencil I scraped through some grunge paste to give the canvas some more background layers.
I stamped the dandilion heads from set #38 with clear watermark ink and heat embossed with holographic embossing powder.
To the grunge paste dandies I added some aquamarine Treasured gold and later added some dots using a white pen.
With the canvas set aside I stamped the images onto watercolour card and some old dictionary pages and heat embossed with embossing powder. I watercoloured the plump blooms with seedless preserves Distress Inks and fussy cut around them ready to sit on the canvas.
The dragonfly, from set #13, was stamped first onto a dictionary page and heat embossed with holographic embossing powder and then onto some watercolour card. I water coloured with seedless preserves. The wings were fussy cut and applied to the dictionary dragonfly. He looks as though he may flutter off the canvas!
Remember to pop over to the Paperartsy blog where you will find two more fabulous projects using the wonderful JoFy stamps!
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Happy crafting,
Clare x x x
