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Monday, 6 September 2010

Oriental cards

Here are 2 oriental cards I made recently. I do enjoy oriental themes although its hard to achieve the clean and simple look. In the first card I used a stamp from About Art Accents, stamped in 3 different shades of green. Added a little coin (sorry don't know what the chinese characters mean) but its a nice accent.



In the 2nd card I stamped the koi in pond stamp by Elusive Images on transparency (acetate sheet) then coloured the koi with irridescent paints. This was layered on a light blue mottled paper which I thought gave a watery feel to the card. Attached the acetate to the card with eyelets. I love the way it turned out.


Thanks for stopping by! Hope you like these two cards.

8 comments:

  1. You are amazingly versatile.The second one is so unique ,I liked it a lot!

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  2. Your stamps are so pretty! What kind of ink is suitable to be stamped on acetate sheets? This is something new to me...so lovely!!

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  3. Thanks Suganthi, the Koi card is my all time fave as well. I was just playing with acetate and ink and it turned out so well - don't you love it when this happens.

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  4. Thanks Lin, the best ink is Stazon which is permanent dye ink. You can get it in craft stores in Msia. Stamping on acetate can be a bit hit and miss because the stamp does slide quite easily when stamping but you get better with practice (which I don't do enough!). But the results can be stunning. Hope you have a chance to try this technique, any Q pls ask.xx

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  5. Thanks Ally! Will try to find it if ever I go to KL this year. Thanks so much...I'll be sure to ask you more once I give it a try! hehe! Good job Ally! It's so nice to see a different craft technique! :)

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  6. Thanks Lin, I'll be popping into some craft stores in 1Utama next week. I will check out the ink pad for you. Have a great Raya!

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  7. Love your Koi card! I've tried stamping on acetate before and its really cool... I haven't tried colouring an image that's on acetate before though... must give that a try!

    Tried to read what's on the coin... (not that I can read chinese very well anyway..but if I'm not mistaken it has to do about wealth...not surprising since it's a coin, LOL!

    Have a great holiday!

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  8. Thanks Shirl, you must be right about the words - lol! Happy holidays to you too xx

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