Wednesday 13 February 2013

Faux airbrush

When I picked up my magazine at the weekend, I decided to have a go at the new technique challenge over on the Craft Stamper Magazine blog http://craftstamper.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/new-take-it-make-it-blog-challenge.html   The challenge was to have a go at faux airbrushing and there is an article in the March issue that shows you how to do it.  This is my first attempt - I think the technique lends itself to a slightly wider stencil than the one I chose to use but I think the effect still shows just about.....


I used peacock feathers and mowed lawn distress inks through a sweet poppy peacock feather stencil.  I added a couple of shades of stickles to the feather centre.  The sentiment strip is a banner cut from a strip of water colour paper that I made using more distress inks (peacock feathers and salty ocean) using salt to get the mottled effect.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

8 comments:

  1. Beautiful image, the stencil is gorgeous! Thanks for playing along with the Craft Stamper challenge! x

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  2. Beautiful, very stylish

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  3. I love the colours and what a beautiful stencil. I know what you mean about it being narrow though. I used a stencil with a small pattern too and with hindsight think the technique is best for larger areas.

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  4. Gorgeous card - love that feather! Jo x

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  5. loving the stencil and colours - thanks for taking part in Craft Stampers first challenge!

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  6. Love peacock feathers and the colours you used, so the only word for your card is: Beautiful!

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  7. Great use of the technique and lovely colours. Thank you for entering it into the Craft Stamper challenge.x

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  8. I'm just catching up with the Craft Stamper challenge entries - thanks for playing along! What a beautiful stencil and the colours you've chosen are perfect. A lovely clean and simple design"

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