A Pop of Colour

It’s time again for my Visible Image DT post and my brief this week was “monochrome with a pop of colour”.  With the card being predominantly black and white, I decided to add some extra interest and dimension with texture paste.

I began with the background as it would need time to dry.  After attaching the Ledger stencil to a piece of black card with some low tack tape, I applied Distress Grit paste through the stencil with a spatula.

After removing the stencil and quickly washing immediately in hot, soapy water, I went back to the panel where the paste was still wet and applied silver white glitter, shaking off the excess, and set aside to dry.  Once completely dry, I used a dry, flat paintbrush to remove any other excess glitter that had not stuck.

Whilst the background was drying, I stamped and clear heat-embossed the small butterfly and sentiment from Counting Moments.  The butterflies were quickly coloured with a pink/purple alcohol marker and fussy-cut.  The sentiment was cut out and edged with a black marker pen.

To tie the pop of colour on the butterflies, I selected a piece of card to frame the background.  I “gutted” it to give me a piece of matching card to mount the sentiment.

Since the background was textured, I used 3D silicone glue to attach the sentiment and butterfly to the card front.

I used 3 of the butterflies on the front and stuck the remaining one on the inside.

Here’s a close-up of the texture.