Hi Everyone and Welcome
Amanda (ink-a-pink) here with you today sharing a card I have created for our Monthly Creative Cardmaking post
We began these posts back in March 2018 when we restructured our monthly timetable. The general idea is that each of the Creative Guides will take their turn throughout the year to share some ideas for creating a card in keeping with our preferred genres- vintage, shabby, mixed media, art journaling, industrial , timeworn or steampunk.
In contrast to the card I created and shared last year (Jan 2019) which was 'industrial, monochrome I have a much more colourful card to share with you today. I feel it has a mixed media, art journaling vibe going on so is inkeeping with a couple of our preferred genres.
Whether creating my own cards or buying them from a high street store I can never resist a butterfly and meaningful words.
Now, I have to hold my hands up and say that I neglected to take any process shots but I will spotlight some of the main features of the finished card.
I was very fortunate recently to add some of Seth Apters line of Izink 'Ice' from Aladine to my stash of art mediums. A belated Christmas treat! Good ol' Santa.
Being keen to try them out was pretty much where the creativity all started as the card background is one of my first 'Ice' 'test' pieces.
In brief: Ice is a translucent gel that creates a wonderful coloured 'Ice effect' It also gives your art a glossy finish.
Let me show you with a few close ups
The 'Coloured 'Ice' effect....
.... so cool!
That glowing sheen..... Pretty special, don't you think?
I didn't want to cover or hide such fabulous colours and effects so I created the rest of my card design with this in mind.
I added some stamping down the vertical of the background. I used a couple of Seth's Impression Obsession stamps for this.
Another of Seth stamps provided a touch of stamped detail across the horizontal too.
This helped create a foundation line for the placement of the focal feature: a few circular die cuts, a watercolored butterfly and a meaningful quote.
The thorax of the butterfly was embellished with a black beaded Ideology game spinner.
