I certainly coloured in a lot of hummingbirds before I got one I was happy with. They are such beautiful, iridescent birds and I wanted to try and achieve that look on mine. I stamped a load out and got out all of my sparkly things. I tried Perfect Pearls, mica powders, Sakura Stardust pens, then coloured pencils and ProMarkers, but I wasn't happy with any of them
In the end Hubby came to the rescue. He said "Why don't you use that sparkly stuff you used on the Autumn Leaves card?". I wasn't convinced as I didn't want to end up with "Disco Hummingbird" but I gave it a go to keep him happy. In the end I had to admit it was by far the best, so that was the technique I used. Thanks Hubby. I coloured the bird with Promarkers first, then I went over it with a Versamark pen before covering it in Stampendous Stardust embossing powder and heating it. Voilà! One iridescent hummingbird!
I wanted to make the flower that he was going into stand out, so I stamped it several times and decoupaged it to give it a 3D look.
It was all finished of with a pretty lace frame cut on my Cameo.
Lynne
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Beautiful Lynne, and the Humming bird is just perfect.....so glad that Jason is joining in with your crafting...x
ReplyDeleteThe bird is gorgeous Lynne, card is fab! huggles hun x
ReplyDeleteDefinately worth the hard work Lynne he is beautiful. Have you tried Kaleidoscope embossing powder from Steampendous - that's a bit sparkly too. xx
ReplyDeleteYes, I bought that a few days ago after your recommendation, Linda. I've used it on my card for the next lesson (the Winter Wonderland kit). It gives a very different effect to the Stardust and I really like it. Thank you. I also bought Jeweled Gold but I've not tried that yet. x
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