'Butterfly Circle.'

Good evening Lovelies,

Thought I would share a 'sneaky peek' with you, of one of my cards made using Imagination Craft's fabulous Impression Plates and stamp set.   This show will be on the Create & Craft T.V. Channel tomorrow Tuesday 15th. Feb.  at 9am. and again  at 1.30pm.   I do hope you can tune in.  Our lovely Mandy Taylor will be showing you some great demos, hints and tips for using the impression plates.   

Using the broken circles texture stamp from the A4 stamp set 'Imprints.' stamp it four times around the 8"x8" white base card, using a black ink pad.

Using the 6" circle impression plate, add layers of the Safran, Lavender, Mint green and Bubblegum Cadence Premium acrylic paints to the surface of the impression plate using a brayer.

Stamp the broken circles onto the touch dry paint, using a piece of 'cut & use again foam', adding some black acrylic paint to the piece of foam, then onto the stamp, then stamping, onto the plate.   (The wavy line which can be seen in the photograph above, is my acrylic stamping block.).

 Next I stamped the smaller flower head onto the plate using a black ink pad.

 

Next add  a thin layer of  the Saffran acrylic paint  with a brayer.

 

 

Lay the 'Bloom' stencil on top of the paint, and using some foam add some black acrylic paint through the design.

Finally, cover this with a thin layer of the white acrylic paint and whilst the paint is still wet, place a piece of white copy paper on top of the impression plate and smooth over the paper with your hand, then slowly pull the paper from the plate and 'voila'....you have your background.

When this is dry, lay the bloom stencil onto the background paper, securing with masking tape and using either a stencil brush or a piece of the foam, rub the black paint through the design.   Remove the stencil and leave the image to dry.

Cut out the circle, slightly larger than the actual circle, then using the decoupage glue, fix this to a five and a half inch white circle, bending the excess paper to the back of the circle and glue it in position.   Matt this onto a slightly larger circle of black card and then onto the centre of the stamped 8"x8" white base card.

Using some spare white card, stamp the butterfly from the stamp set 5 times using a black ink pad and cut them out.   

Paint 4 of the butterflies with watered down Bubble gum and Mint green paint, leaving one unpainted.

Glue the black/white butterfly to the right-hand side of the circle and the other 4, spaced equally around the circle, adding a little silicone glue under each of the wings.

Add 3 lavender gemstones to the bottom of the circle.   I added some white dots to the top of the main flower, using a white pen.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog, hope your visit may have encouraged you to have a go, using this fabulous impression plate, such fun, every background turns out differently lol.

Please tune in tomorrow morning to see Mandy's demonstrations and the fabulous samples the design team have made.   Take care and stay safe.

                                                                     Love and rainbows,

                                                                     Hugs   Jennifer xx.