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Sunday 27 May 2012

MS Trust Art Show

I promised you I would show you my piece from the MS Trust Secret Art Show when it had sold.  I forgot to take a photo so Jo from the MS Trust very kindly sent me a scan of it.  And here it is

The butterfly is from a (now sadly) discontinued stamp plate by Elusive Images.  I stamped it onto the heavy watercolour paper that the MS Trust sends you when you show interest in creating a piece for the show.  I embossed it with a silver embossing powder andpainted it with Twinkling H2O's, then used a yellow Ecoline Ink to colour the background.

The sentiment was also on the stamp plate but I needed it to be bigger, so I printed onto to tissue paper through my printer.  I have a Kodak ESP printer and the ink dries very quickly on all the things I've tried through it so far.  As long as I tape the tissue to a piece of cartridge paper it prints fine.  As the ink dries very quickly you can use gel medium to adhere it to the background which is what I did here.

It sold on the first day of the sale.  How chuffed am I ?!?!?!

There are still some pieces left.  Please have a look.  Its a great cause very close to my heart (for obvious reasons!!)

3 comments:

Janet said...

Wonderful piece, Jill and I am not surprised it sold very quickly. Thank you for explaining how you made it - I would have been stumped by the sentiment (I have never used a scanner). Lots of lovely stuff left too.

Janet xx

mamapez5 said...

Your butterfly is beautiful. I am so glad it sold. I hadn't picked it out as being yours though!
Kate x

Unknown said...

Well done in raising some money for a good cause with a lovely work of art ;0) Dawn xx