Oriental'triptych'

This uses the Japanese lady with ravens stamp from an earlier card.Like before I removed the plum ink with cotton buds and added black ink to the ravens with a marker. Image cut into 3 then mounted onto washi paper. A gold triangle frames opposite corners, matted onto black then washi paper again.The Oriental lettering is a small segment of a kanji lettering stamp. I inked a small piece of thick card with black ink, triple embossed, then pressed the letter stamp, inked in gold, into it. When cold I edged with gold Krylon pen, added a tassel and mounted with silicone glue.The black base card has a motif embossed from the Borderfold embossing board from The Glitter Girls.

Japanese Lady with Ravens

The title is also the name of the stamp, from Stamp Francisco. I stamped it using a Cracked Sapphire Distress ink-pad, then wiped the blue ink off the Ravens with cotton buds. I then coloured them using a black Marvy marker.Stamped onto a grey marbled card, then matted onto black, then blue/gold card.The two strips are Washi paper( Hobbycrafts, among others).For the Kanji strip, I used the Cracked Sapphire inkpad again, tapping it onto white card.This gave me a nice mottled look. The distress pads are also wet enough to take the UTEE, and I used 3 layers. The Kanji letters stamp is just called OASIS( I think this may be the maker) 212E. It has 9 characters in a vertical line, I just taped off the bottom 4 while I inked it up ( Encore Gold Metallic), then took off the tape before stamping.Added a tassel and mounted with silicone glue.Lastly I printed the title in black onto white paper, and used a label die cut from my Silhouette, to give a 'Gallery' feel.

Here be Dragons....

Black base card cut & folded to 15cm square. The ancient script is by Elusive Images from Graphicus.( Scripts & timepieces u/m themeplate) stamped with Gold Encore pigment ink and embossed with gold detail powder, onto a slightly textured paper. I lined up a strip of gold paper with the edge of the stamped paper and tore off the edge, then moved the gold paper out a little and stuck both down with DST. The 'E' at the start was then coloured with H2O's, as in Illuminated manuscripts.The dragon stamp is by Inkadinkado, 4223P, stamped onto black card with clear embossing ink, then dusted with mica powders. Corners are punched with a southwest punch and mounted onto gold paper cut with a deckle edge blade. Mount the image to the lower left, then add an insert and a thin cord and tassel.

Wedding Card in Black & White

Base card is A4 sheet from PDA Card & Paper, cut, scored & folded.
The u/m Celtic Horseshoe stamp I bought a long time ago, but I think its discontinued now, as I haven't been able to find it anywhere