Feathers by Heather Telford

I’m beginning to feel quite at home here on the Foiled Fox blog, thank you for having me back as a guest. I have created a card that has been floating around in my head for a while waiting for the chance and the inspiration to carry it out. I wanted feathers floating down my card but I also wanted a picture in the feathers. It is not all that obvious but there are branches stamped on the feathers. I like what happened on this card but I still want to develop the ‘picture in the feathers’ idea further.

I began with a piece of hot pressed watercolor paper sprinkled with masking fluid. I taped the paper to a firm surface then painted water over it. Into the water on the paper, I dropped some violet, cobalt blue and leaf green Brusho crystals. As they reacted with the water, I tilted the panel so the colours would mix and move.

I kept adding colour and water until I had good coverage and a pretty pattern of the three colours. Once the panel was dry I removed the masking fluid and stamped the ‘skyward’ stamp in Versafine onyx black ink. When that dried I used the ‘light as a feather’ die from Penny Black to cut three feathers.

The background panel has a subtle pattern on it too created by stamping the skyward stamp in Versamark ink and embossing in clear powder. I arranged the feathers on the panel and popped up the centre one on dimensional tape before adding an embossed sentiment from the happy snippets set and a few coordinating sequins.

I’m looking forward to trying more techniques with this pretty feather die; I hope I’ve got you thinking about its possibilities too!