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Metamorphosis with Heather Mitchell

Hi everybody...
I'm back today sharing a card I made using the gorgeous Catherine Pooler Trio Bundled Up which includes Peppermint Scrub (a glorious deep pink), Skylight (a beautiful teal colour) and Sage (a mid-tone green) and all three have metallics flecks of gold and silver running through them.
I have a drawer in the craft room which is full of MDF shapes and words and bits and pieces I've gathered over the years and I rarely dip into it for some reason.  So for this make I used one of the butterfly shapes (I think it's an old Docrafts one but don't quote me on that).
After painting with a thin layer of gesso, I've squished the Wow! Embossing pad over the butterfly and then sprinkled with the Peppermint Scrub powder.  I repeated three times to give a really deep finish.  
I decided the butterfly on it's own looked a bit bare, so added some vellum to the back.  I stamped some grungy polka dots onto this using Opaque Bright White, this just helps freshen the col…

Grungy Feathers with Heather

Hello everyone...
I was given a beautiful new stamp set by my daughter recently as she knows I love a feather!  The set, 'Golden Feathers' from Altenew works beautifully with the WOW! embossing powders as you can layer up the textures on the feathers and the powders just make it all touchy-feely and fabulous!
I chose to use the new Seth Apter Metalz and Cosmic powders but I've since had a play with bright colours and they look equally awesome!

I've heat embossed each feather using the WOW! embossing pad onto water colour card and trimmed.  I used Distress Oxide Ink Pads to colour each feather, just smooshed the inks onto a glass mat and used with a watercolour brush.
With each feather completed, I used Finnabair's Dot Grunge stamp to heat emboss Space Dust (from the Cosmic trio) on the background and washed over it using watercolours.  
I also added the sentiment (from the same Altenew stamp set) using Sea of Tranquility, also from the Cosmic trio, and gave a wash of tu…