ID: Walnut - Change

I rubber stamped the words (Quietfire Design rubber stamp) onto a pinky toned vellum and gold embossed it. I cut close to the words with a deckle edged blade and glued it to my ATC with vellum tape. I glued on a yellow rhinestone butterfly. Mounted it onto brown cardstock.

Words: If nothing ever changed there'd be no butterflies

How I made the Background: (this is the same for the next 6 ATC's
I started with a large sheet of Arches Text wove paper. Used a large chisel brush and walnut ink and wrote words all over the paper and at various angles (dream, believe, love, inspire et). When that was dry I used a wet brush to swish across the words so that things bled into each other. When that was dry, I turned the paper 90 degrees and wrote the words of the song "The Impossible Dream" using purple ink and a 1.5m Pentel Parallel Pen. When that was dry I sprayed it with workable fixative and wrote large words again with walnut ink, smushed some more and let that dry. I then used Dr martin's metallic inks in bronze and copper and wrote words using the ink dropper, and on very wet areas place a tissue and pressed down to remove some of the excess ink. My page was now ready to cut up into ATC rectangles. 

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