Shadow Technique

 I watched a tutorial on the shadow technique and I had to have a go!

First I made some on kraft card as per the tutorial.

This one uses Botanical Blossoms by Lavinia Stamps, it is stamped with Versafine Clair Pinecone then Brilliance White, finished with some gold liquid pearls.

Then I played with the Blackberry stamp also from Lavinia, inks are the same but I did colour it with Prisma Watercolour pencils (I noticed I missed a leaf!) and finished with some silver liquid pearls.

Then I thought Christmas! So I got out some snowflake stamps from Lavinia and tried doing them all at once but that was a mistake as one stamps moved when I was cleaning it so lesson learned! But it turned out pretty good for all that. Same inks and this time some white liquid pearls.

Then I wondered if you could get the same effect on black card, well it can just about be done (by me) when I worked it out, I first stamped the image in white and dried it then over stamped it in grey to get my shadow. The white image was difficult to get a clean finish, I tried colouring in with a white pencil, chalk pencil then I remembered I had a white Zig brush pen so coloured it with that, Wings were coloured with a Sakura sparkle pen. Next time I will go straight for the Zig and get a better finish but its not too bad, I added some glue dots and sparkle from Vintage Stardust!

See you soon!