Beautiful You in the Mediterranean

I have to say that I am really excited to showcase these creations. Collaboration is a concept that I aspire to achieve in my professional job, and so its really exciting for me when I can find two stamp sets that can collaborate well together. I think the Beautiful You and Mediterranean Streets collaborates perfectly well together. Here is why:

To start off, I stamped the image of the girl with the umbrella first, and then created a mask of the same image with a post-it note. The same technic I used in my Merry Medley blog post. Placing the mask over the top of the stamped image, I stamped the alleyway in versamark and embossed it with silver embossing powder. The musk ensured that the image of the girl remained un-embossed. While it is difficult to make out from the photos, I was surprised to find that the combination of the embossed image and the un-embossed image gave it a 3D look. It created an illusion by allowing the un-embossed image to pop out of the background. I am sure other master crafters probably already knew that, but it was really quite a thrill to have discovered it myself for the fist time. I am feeling just a little proud right about now.

In the samples below I have used the same technic as the ones above, but here I only used the images from the Mediterranean streets with one another. I particularly like the combination of the cafe with the alleyway. They actually look as though they are part of one picture, and once again creating a 3D look with the cafe popping out of the background.

Here are some of the masks that helped to create the look of a 3D image.

I hope you have enjoyed the post, as I have enjoyed sharing it with you.  Stop by again really soon.

Beautiful You: Part 2

Here is the second part of my Beautiful You collection. Here I played around with different colours. I also tried stamping on playful pallete designer paper and cut out the umbrellas and the dresses paired with various coordinated colours.

In this one, I embossed on rain drops from the weather together stamp set, and water washed over it with smoky slate using the aqua painter.

Thanks for visiting, I hope you have enjoyed perusing through my creations, I certainly have enjoyed creating them.

Beautiful You: part 1

Beautiful You is one set where the name speaks for itself, it is just beautiful. I was one of the lucky ones to win this set as prize patrol at #onstagelive2016. For those who are not familiar with prize patrol is, it is just another way of saying prize giveaways. It felt like I scored because this comes in a double box set, without a doubt the best one out of all the prize patrol.

Once I started to play with it, I just couldn't stop, I kept making more and more. The creative juices kept flowing on and on. So much so that I've had to break up the post in various parts to be able to showcase each design. So stay tuned for them all to be revealed one by one.

Here is the first design:

This image is my favourite from this set because doesn't really reveal much about the girl as she has her back to us. But I think that is what makes it more intriguing, she can be who ever you want her to be. Here I wanted her dress to pop out a little, so I stamped and punched out a petal from the bunch of blossoms, and used it as the lower half of the dress. I am quite happy with how it turned out, it actually looks like she has vintage dress on. On the right is another card that I made with the same image minus the petal dress, just to give you an idea of what a difference it makes.

To make the dress pop out a little, I used dimensional adhesive to lift it. To give it the look of a rainy and windy day, I stamped the brush stroke images from the same stamp set with soft sky ink. The umbrella is coloured with crushed curry.

staying with the vintage look, I decided to tear the edges and sponge with the same colour as the dress, emerald envy.

To finish it off, I put my sewing skills to work, giving it a stitched frame. I had heaps of fun with this card, can' t wait to reveal some of my other creations with this set.