I know I haven't seen you for a couple of weeks. I just haven't had much to share. It's been hard to get anything done the last few weeks as there always seems to be someone around to keep me distracted from my craft work. I will be posting when I do have goodies to share with you though.
Now, onto the meat... I signed up for an ATC swap a while back using mica powders, or paint powders. Well, I didn't jump on the paint powder bandwagon. It just didn't much appeal to me. I do have some mica powders though. I have 3 tiny pots that I purchased for making shimmer sprays years ago. That didn't work the way it was planned...so I still have some. I also have a wide variety of frosty looking eye shadows. Guess what makes them shimmery and frosty? If you guessed mica powder, you guessed right! I chose to use my collection of eye shadows to color the bottom layer of these wonderful butterfly die cuts that I have from Spellbinders.
I decided that since I was making 48 introduction cards for the spring swap from Jennifer Hines, I would do butterflies for those too. So I spent an afternoon cranking on my Cuttlebug machine and cut out about 110 butterflies. Whew! It got to be an awful lot like work after a while. lol
I started by using a paintbrush and brushing 3 different bands of color across the base layer. It looks pretty dramatic against this black paper.
After applying the color, I used wet glue to affix the top layer to the powder coated bases. Wet glue soaks through the powder to stick to the base. Stickery or tapey adhesives are not going to do that. they are going to stick to the powder and pull it off. Just remember to be very sparing with your wet glue. You don't want it to squeeze out and show in the tiny apertures and dull the shimmer.
I also used some white paper for the bases, and added mica powders in the same way. I used the mixed media sheets from a recent post for the backgrounds for these butterflies. The ones for the swap went on some scraps of gelatine plate monoprints(hectograph) prints I had left.
I hope you've enjoyed this post. Soon I will be posting about the creation of a hectograph plate. I'm excited to be able to monoprint again!
See ya later!
Now, onto the meat... I signed up for an ATC swap a while back using mica powders, or paint powders. Well, I didn't jump on the paint powder bandwagon. It just didn't much appeal to me. I do have some mica powders though. I have 3 tiny pots that I purchased for making shimmer sprays years ago. That didn't work the way it was planned...so I still have some. I also have a wide variety of frosty looking eye shadows. Guess what makes them shimmery and frosty? If you guessed mica powder, you guessed right! I chose to use my collection of eye shadows to color the bottom layer of these wonderful butterfly die cuts that I have from Spellbinders.
I decided that since I was making 48 introduction cards for the spring swap from Jennifer Hines, I would do butterflies for those too. So I spent an afternoon cranking on my Cuttlebug machine and cut out about 110 butterflies. Whew! It got to be an awful lot like work after a while. lol
I hope you've enjoyed this post. Soon I will be posting about the creation of a hectograph plate. I'm excited to be able to monoprint again!
See ya later!
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