stamping on to tissue

I had tried the tissue stamping before without success because I used the wrong ink. This time I was really pleased with the results, especially the butterflies (Clarity Stamps) I painted a bazzil tag with cream acrlic paint, then stamped the butterflies on to tissue using green stazon, then coloured them using my new aquaflow pens for the first time. WOW what vibrant colours! I covered the tag with several coats of PVA watered down, and edged the tag in brown chalk ink. I decided it needed toning down a little, so went over the cream paint with a brown chalk ink pad that had nearly run out. It gives it a gorgeous distressed look.

Here is my brooch. Sorry about the quality of the photo! I used a tanda stamps retro woman stamp, and some HOTP script paper. Then I used a small flower and gold embossed it. I tried and failed with the beads! It did have 3 sets of beads, but 2 fell off!

Altered Mint Tin

Here is my altered mint tin, inside and out! I loved doing this, and the tissue stamping technique went really well with this stamp (it's from a grab bag off eBay!) I used my ancient watercolour crayons for the first time in years! I'm not too happy about the bottom inside - I poured the glossy accents in with a far too heavy hand! It's really thick and took days to dry! It looks even worse in the photo becasue of the glare. One thing I would do differently is not paint right up to the top of the sides, my tin does not shut now!

Here is the inside of my Lippy Chick book. I used Blonde Moments papers, and created a book about my daughter's ballet! Lots of pink and purple ribbon, banana frog stamps, pink blossoms, and pink flower punch-outs.