My mother's birthday was last month and she loves butterflies. I had picked up a Martha Stewart metal stencil that I intended to try as an embosser rather than just picking a butterfly and stenciling it. I'm not sure you can tell from the picture that I brayered on some Pretty in Pink ink first and then ran it through the Big Shot. The first time it didn't have such great results - the ink was really blotchy. The brayer caused large drops of ink to form on the stencil. So the second time, after I brayered the ink, I rubbed it around with my finger and the ink droplets became more uniform in size.
SU has a new butterfly punch and stamp set. I picked out the butterfly from the set that matches the punch and colored it with my markers before punching out. Then I daubered the edges with the Rose Red ink. The head is a sticky pearl and the abdomen two rhinestones.
Yes, this did not photograph very well, but IRL it looks much prettier.
Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI can see the pink perfectly! And very pretty and dainty it looks, too. Hmm, I hadn't thought about ink beading up on metal stencils, I know it does on plastic :D. I wonder if your trick would work on that too! Your new butterfly punch is a lovely shape, too.
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