New Wonders - Sheepski Designs, stencilling, vellum, mica spray

New wonders and new beginnings are what we should look for each day. The new year truly does bring us 365 new opportunities. Butterflies are often a symbol of reincarnation, a blossoming of a new life while shedding the old. My card features Flutterby by Sheepski Designs painted with Marabu shimmer spray along with stencilling also with the shimmer spray.

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Putting It Together

Shortly before Christmas, I picked up a package with a set of the Marabu shimmer sprays and decided to play with them and get inky. Marabu shimmer spray is a water-based dye ink that was designed to be used with fabric but can also be used with paper. On fabric, if you heat set it, the colour will be washable. 

I used a box to contain the spray, one of the ones that was shipped to me with stuff. I changed to a new box because the old one was starting to get a bit.. well... sticky (I also use the box for spray adhesive.

The Marabu shimmer spray will go on with a light mist when the nozzle is held with wn even pressure or splattery when stuttered a bit. I laid the panel of cardstock in the box and layered on colours.

The colours do blend a bit when they're wet so you can get really lovely shimmery colours when you layer one over another.

While the spray was still very wet on the stencil (it dries slower on the plastic than the paper), I laid it over another cardstock panel.

I used plastic packaging to press the stencil on the paper, like a stamp.

Doing this gave me two panels, one as the negative of the other. I used just two colours for this panel pair: the bright lime-ish green Reseda and the almost fuchsia Rose Pink. The colour blend of these two is purply.

I decided I wanted to use vellum for the image both to give it a light feel and also to have a frosted translucence on the background. I used a Swiffer cloth to wipe down the vellum sheet before I printed Flutterby on it using the photo paper setting. While the printer ink was still wet, I added the embossing powder to the butterfly and then heat set it.

I sprayed a small puddle of the shimmer spray and used a water brush to paint the butterfly. I was pleased to find how well it worked with a brush and how easy to blend. I used Distress paint for the body since all my shimmer sprays are bright colours.

When dry, the shimmer spray on the vellum is a tad bit glossy which works well for the butterfly.

I found a die in my stash to make a perfect frame. It decided I wanted some of the background behind the vellum and some not for a contrast.

I dry fit the panels together and decided on a sentiment.

After I embossed the sentiment with gold, I adhered the vellum behind the frame.

I then lined up the inset background behind the vellum making sure the line up the right side. I used some washi tape to hold the panel in place while I added everything to a white card base. I left the inside blank because I couldn't think of anything to add.

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