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Welcome to issue 5 of Monday Mojo Magic. When this email went out first time round, we had just launched the Indian Elephant and Indian Textiles stamp sets, and rather than a technique, this email contains a write up of how I made three cards from those two sets. This time round, I have taken butterflies as a theme and created a couple of new cards which you can find below.
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- Stamp the floral panel with Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink onto smooth watercolour paper.
- Use a wet paintbrush or waterbrush to paint the image, pulling colour in from the stamped lines. If you need stronger colour, press the Brushed Corduroy inkpad onto a plastic surface and mix with a little water.
- Leave to dry then use Adirondack Denim dye ink (again press it onto a plastic surface and mix with a littl water) to paint a soft shadow around the image. Use plenty of water to fade the colour out.
- Flatten under a stack of books if your paper has rippled from the water.
- Trim and mount onto brown card.
- Position the stamp slightly off the edge of the card and stamp the large swirl from Nature Swirls onto the bottom right corner of a cream card.
- Repeat in the top left corner, positioning more of it off the card to give a smaller swirl.
- Attach your stamped panel to the card with foam pads.
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- To make your own coloured card, spray thin white card with a couple of colours of Dylusions spray inks. Unless you want lots of different colours, stick with no more than two similar colours which will give a slight variation. When dry you will probably find the card has curled so spritz the back with water and leave to dry again. Place all your card under a stack of heavy books and leave for a day to flatten.
- Stamp the large border from Indian Textiles two or three times onto purple cardstock with Versamark and emboss with gold embossing powder.
- Repeat on the green card.
- Cut each border out with a craft knife and ruler, then cut up one of each colour into it's three component strips.
- Arrange the borders and strips into a pleasing arrangement, mixing direction and cutting strips up if needed.
- Once you have an arrangement you are happy with, trim a piece of thin card to the size you want your panel to be and cover with the double sided adhesive sheet. You won't see the card so you can use up an offcut.
- Peel the backing sheet off the double sided adhesive and start laying out your 'quilt' pieces. My top tip is to make sure you overhang the edges slightly as it's easier to trim off excess than to patch in gaps.
- When finished, trim off any overhanging edges.
- Stamp a sentiment onto a tag and attach it with ribbon to the back of your stamped panel then mount onto a coordinating card layer.
- Attach to the front of your card with double sided tape.
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The background for this card was done using a Gelli Arts printing plate - something that I plan to cover in more detail on my blog soon. Typically you wouldn't get it out to make one background, it makes sense to create a whole batch of backgrounds in one go. | 
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- Paint the Gelli Arts plate with blue acrylic paint using a broad flat brush. Go for random brush strokes all over, then use the brush to create horizontal lines in the bottom half.
- Place a sheet of damp watercolour paper over the plate and burnish. You should be able to spritz the plate with water and get a second and maybe a third print from the one application.
- When dry, trim to a square and stamp the Taj Mahal with Majestic Blue ink onto the background just above the point where your horizontal brushstrokes begin.
- Punch a circle out of masking paper (or a Post It note) and place over the stamped image. Pick up a little of the blue ink and swirl it around the circle.
- Swirl or stipple the blue ink around the edges of the piece.
- Mount onto layers of blue card and stick onto a white 8x8 card.
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Here's a confession - I didn't use a ruler and craft knife to do my cutting on the quilted card. I tried to take a short cut by doing it on a paper trimmer, but it's about as straight as a banana! But hey, I'm showing you it anyway, so you can learn from my mistakes! |
I have created a couple of new cards this week featuring butterflies, but to keep this email from getting too long, you can find all the details on my blog. Please visit glendawaterworth.com where you can see these cards in more detail.
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 I originally ran this series in 2013 and this time round, I am using my own tutorials to inspire me to create a new piece of artwork to share with you each week. I love to create and I am also passionate about inspiring and enabling others to create too. I hope that this email gets your mojo working and you feel motivated to get into your crafty space and have a go.  PS - if your creation features Chocolate Baroque stamps, then why not share on our Facebook Group or our wonderful private forum. In both places you will find a wonderful community of like minded Chocolate Baroque fans.
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Materials used in this project are available at my online store
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