Making Flat Cards (by Zoe)

Good morning Lovelies, what a fabulous October we had with the weather, hard to believe it's November already.

This morning I'm showcasing 2 of my samples from last month's shows on Hochanda featuring these gorgeous stamp sets.
These are both flat, no cutting out whatsoever, but look 3D!

My first card I made a mask with masking tisue from the website,
(if you don't have this, I highly recommend you get some, it's amazing stuff!)
Anyway, I masked the edges with stencil tape, I then stamped the first butterfly in black Versafine inkpad and heat embossed with clear embossing powder, and used the tissue to create the background behind the main image using a grey inkpad. I used a charcoal pencil on the right side of the butterfly and smudged to get a shadow effect, which lifts the butterfly off the page. I then coloured using watercolour crayons. The sentiment was stamped onto some Washi tape and mounted onto card to add another 'Pop' of colour.

My second card I started by creating a colourful background with dye inks applied to an acrylic block and spritzed with water, building up the colours. Once it was all dry and I was happy with the colour, I stamped this gorgeous flower randomly and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I then carefully painted around the flowers using Gesso, and to finish off used a script style sentiment to add some texture.
I found this technique in a magazine, it's great I've used it several times, it's so effective because it looks like the flowers have been decoupaged!

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit, I love to read your comments, see you later again this month.
Have a wonderfully creative day xx Zoe xx