With Brave Wings she Flies

 Have you ever looked through your stamp collection and realized one of your favourite stamp sets was at your fingertips? Tim + SA cms213 perspective. I use the butterfly a lot, always wanted to try out the numbers background stamp. There’s a first time for everything.

The Base:

Starting with a piece of watercolour card stock for the base, smoosh distress ink lost shadow and distress oxide pumice stone onto craft sheet, mist with water, then tap card base. Dry between layers.

It’s all in the layers:

Using the background number stamp from the stamp set perspective and distress oxide in pumice stone, ink portions of stamp to go on background in random sections.

Apply texture paste sparkle through your favourite stencil, I used dot fade. This stencil has been loved a lot lol. Let air dry.

One of my favourite stamps and most loved from this set is the butterfly. Distress watercolour card stock is my go to for mixed media and especially watercoloring. First ink the stamp. I used Simon Says Stamp VersaFine Clair in Nocturnr. Any permanent ink will do. Using my all time favourite distress watercolour pencils to colour the butterfly. The beauty of these pencils is they blend like butter. With or without a water brush. 

Normally I don’t have the patience for fussy cutting, however I discovered an easy way to persevere through it. Draw an outline of the butterfly, using Tim’s recoiling scissors carefully cut around outline. They have a really good grip and easier control to cut.

TH/SA cms394 tiny text is so versatile. You can use it as a background or choose different sayings to put on cards. I chose ‘with brave wings she flies’ distress embossing ink on black Kraft stock and heat embossed with Ranger embossing powder in white. Making sure I have my Ranger Handle It tool. Less likely to burn my fingers lol.

Finishing touches:

Next I machine stitched part way in the upper right hand corner and lower left hand corner to give balance. Then added a mini action wobbler to create the illusion of the wings fluttering away.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and it leaves you feeling inspired.

Christina