Botanical Beauty

This week, I had a play with a new purchase, Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Botanic Collage.  I didn’t really know where to start so decided to dig out one of my gel plates to create a background and go from there.

Using a small brayer, I applied Distress Oxides to the gel plate, sprayed with a little water and then pressed onto squares of white card.

This was repeated with a variety of ink pads.

Next, using stencils from Tim Holtz Mini Layering Stencil Set #24, I added the same colours used with the gel plate through the stencil.

After stamping the botanic stamps on each panel and onto a scrap of card, I die-cut the main focal image from each panel.  The scraps of card were coloured and the image fussy cut.

I sprayed each panel with some Shimmer Spritz but I still felt that they needed something more so I dug out my Black Distress Paste, applied some through the stencil in various spots on the panel and the cut out.  Whilst the paste was still wet, I added some embossing powder and heated it immediately.  This makes the paste bubble whilst the powder melts and gives great texture.

The panels were mounted on black card blanks.  Each cut out was backed by a larger black cut out and then attached to the panel using foam tape.  The fussy cut images were also popped up on foam tape.





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