Fiona Stanton: October 2019

Tuesday 15 October 2019

Ooooh metallic and Shimmery!

I have been having fun with the new Delicata Metallic Inks in the Autumn/Winter catalogue. These inks are by Tsukineko, who produce the Versamark/Versafine range and they are highly pigmented and show up on all sorts of cardstock and products.

They are pigment ink, which means they are thicker and tend to give a more solid image than waterbased inks, but be aware that they may take a little longer to dry than our waterbased inks.

I create this wreath using the Gathered Leaves Dies. As these particular leaf dies are cut and emboss dies, if you spritz them with water before die cutting the embossed details tend to stand out more. I then used a dauber and inked with the metallic ink around the leaves to add extra shimmer and effect to the wreath.

I had lots of fun with this card. I saw a video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwIMy_oww1s) which detailed this watercolour technique. I add a drop of two of coloured re-inker, added a little touch of Granite Gray re-inker and then added water and little bit of one of the metallic re-inkers to the colour and made a selection of coloured washes on the water-colour card. I waited for it to dry before stamping the images from the Gather Together stamp set in Stazon Ink. I then added coloured the images in a little with the Metallic Ink and a small brush. I outlined each panel with the Black Stampin' Write Marker and cut them out to create the card.

I love the effect of the Metallic shimmer in the background and the added, intense metallic colour in the foreground

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Silvery Shimmer Delicata Metallic Ink Pad

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Tuesday 1 October 2019

So Many Stars Bundle

The Autumn/Winter catalogue has been put for nearly a month now, and I have to say that one of my favourite products has to be the So many Stars bundle, mainly because of fo the Stitched Stars dies. These are another set of versatile shaped dies, there is a set of layering dies and other decorative star-based dies, which add so much to your projects.

However, the first card I want to show you just uses the So Many Stars stamp set, which is a stunning Christmas themed stamp set. As you would expect, it has several star stamps which can be cut using the Stitched Stars dies, however, it also has some snowflake stamps r shaped, so can also be die-cut it) and a really useful background stamp.

This card shows the versatility of the dies, in that you can pair them up with any stamp set to create a multitude of thank you, birthday and everyday cards.