Night and Day - Dawn Heald

Morning all,

It is day two of Night and Day and Dawn is here today to show

us what she has been up to.

She has made two beautiful cards in different colourways.

Don't they look different??

It is amazing what changing colours can do!

This is what Dawn says.....

"I've made two cards for my project this week.

 I knew straight away I wanted to use this new Celtic Dreams Die.

 There are so many ways of using this die with many techniques

 and mediums that I sent myself dizzy. So I decided to go

 simple and striking and using alcohol inks as its been a while

 since I played with them. Just a note too, these die's

 are a dream to cut. Very impressed.

So to make ....

Choose some alcohol inks and blending solution and put drops

 on the applicator and create some backgrounds.

For my day card I used; Pool, Sunshine Yellow, Citrus and Gold

 Mixative. For my night card I used; Indigo, Purple Twilight,

 Mermaid and Silver Mixative. 

Indigo and Mermaid are two new colours and are very strong. 

You don't need as much on your applicators when using with

 older colours of alcohol inks.

 Choose which backgrounds you want to use.

Next using Celtic die, cut two each from white and black card. 

Glue a white onto black and black onto white. Slightly offsetting 

them as shown in pic. Glue to your background and cut around

 the edges.

Next add details to your top die cuts. Use markers and black pen

 on the white card die cut image and Interference paints and silver

 pen on the black card die cut image. Punch some tiny flowers and 

colour to match your image details. 

                                        Glue around the branches.

Cut three squares of card going up in size for layers to go behind

 your main image. I used white card and coloured the edges with

 Pro Markers. Cheaper and easier to match with your focal point.

 You could use coloured card. I also coloured the front edges of

 the card blank and inside so it looked like another two layers of colour.

 Stick all your layers together and then onto your card blank.

 Finish by embellishing with some coloured gems".

How lovely are they??

If you want to have a go, this is what you will need -

Celtic Dreams Die - Hidden Secrets

Big Shot Die Cutting Machine

Alcohol Inks - Pool, Sunshine Yellow, Citrus, Purple Twilight, 

Mermaid, Indigo, Gold and Silver Mixative

DecoArt Interference Paints - Blue, Magenta

Pro Markers 

White glossy card

White card

Black card

White gel pen

 Coloured gems

From stash

Silver Gel Pen

I'll be back tomorrow, see you then,

Jane x