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Sunday 30 April 2017

Katya again

 two more samples using the lovely Katya - you can tell she was my favourite, can't you!
Katya stamped with black versafine, clear embossed and masked with masking fluid. The buildings from the babushka set were stamped using an old multi-coloured dye ink pad that was so old the colours had all merged into an apology for black - very different from the original! It worked for the buildings, as there were still traces of the original colours when the background was spritzed with water to activate the brusho powders, so I got a misty skyline effect.
Once everything was dry, I rubbed off the masking fluid and coloured her using watered down aztec metallic paints.







The second version is a bit more dramatic , and a tad more complicated.
It started out the same way, stamping and masking Katya before stamping the castle from the fantasy castle set, as I thought it looked sufficiently Russian. I coloured the castle with brusho powders and a waterbrush, mostly using sandstone, lemon and leaf green powders. Katya was coloured with mica powders and a waterbrush. I created a layered effect by trimming the castle to a square and cutting round Katya where she was outside the square. I added a square gold mat behind the castle.
The background was randomly stamped with the silhouette palaces stamp using the same ancient ink pad and grey, purple and black brusho powders which all sort of merged into a misty nighttime effect.
I hope you have enjoyed seeing the wonderful samples from the team over the last month, we certainly enjoyed making them!

7 comments:

  1. Two wonderful cards Veronica using these wonderful stamps and I love the misty castle and the reds and oranges in the background on the first, and then the much darker background and brightly coloured castle which stands out beautifully, and a lovely idea to cut around Katya so she is framed against that dark background. x

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  2. So beautiful Veronica, fabulous stamping and grea tuse of colours, Kate x

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  3. She looks beautiful on both again!

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  4. Two amazing cards. Thank you.

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  5. It's quite understandable how she's a favourite :)

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