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Showing posts with label lyra watercolours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lyra watercolours. Show all posts

Friday, 20 February 2009

A Rose by Any Other Name

This piece is for 3 different challenges this week. The first inspiration was Theme Thursday, whose challenge was label. The second challenge was Saturday Workout, who wanted us to use skink plastic, and My Time To Craft gave us the dare to use pink and brown.

I found this lovely label on The Graphics Fairy site and it inspired me to match it up with a new set of stamps from Elusive Images, the harlequin rose plate. The colours were chosen for me by the label and the MTTC theme, so I used my new Derwent pencils and my Lyra watercolours to create the rose topper and the swirly, leafy background paper - also a stamp from that plate. I sprayed it with latte, snow angel and watermelon Gimmer Mists. I printed a smaller rose on to a small piece of transluscent shrink plastic, and coloured it with Sakura Stardust pens. I made a hole in it before shrinking, and added a tiny pink ribbon, tied into a bow. The display paper is a light brown orange peel Bazill basics sheet and the whole piece is 8" square. Thanks for looking.

Saturday, 17 January 2009

Three More Magnolia Creations







Here are three other cards I made some time ago, with the same magnolia stamp. The two at the top are from 2006 and the bottom one is from 2007. I thought I had used it more than that!! Two are painted with lyra watercolours and 1 is printed on to acetate with crumpled Fantasy Film behind it - a new take on an old technique.