When I first read the title of this fortnight's Butterfly Challenge, I thought it said Paper Piecing and I had an idea all ready to start making - and then I looked at the inspiration samples and realised it was piercing and not piecing! So it was back to the drawing board for me. Right back, as I don't think I've done any paper piercing before, apart from making occasional holes to stitch into. Anyway, here is my entry for the challenge,
Paper Piercing and/or the colour Fern
I stamped the butterfly collage onto vellum, using Memento ink (which dries frustratingly slowly on vellum, but gets there in the end) in a colour as close to my idea of fern as I could find, and coloured it from the back with Promarkers. Then I used a stencil and pokey tool to pierce the border. resting it on a foam mat while piercing. I stuck the vellum to the background card with a dab of strong glue in each corner, covered on the outside with dots of candi.
6 comments:
Such a sweet card for the Butterfly Challenge - I haven't joined there in ages and I'm hoping to get a card made this time! Love your paper piercing! Thanks for inspiring!
It's one of those 'Happy Mistakes' - looks beautiful.
Beautiful, I might have that stamp or one very similar. Fab. paper piercing, and I would have read piecing too. lol.
It's beautiful Jane and what a lovely stamp. I love the sound when piercing vellum. Barbxx
Oh wow this is so pretty and delicate looking being done on the vellum and I like your stab(soree) at piercing. Looks a lot neater than mine. I think the trick is to not do straight lines cos they show up straight away as being wonky. I got on much better doing the piercing freehand in the end. Thankyoy for fluttering by with this lovely pierced card. Hugs Mrs A.
Really beautiful love the stamped image and great colouring looks almost like watercolouring and great piercing
Carol x
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