Coincidences

Some months ago I was inspired by an article in Craft Stamper to make a romantic steampunk card. The article was "Pretty Punk" by Elizabeth Borer and it appeared on page 16 in the March 2013 edition. I loved the way the artist had overlayed the colours of acrylic paint to decorate a clock face, and wondered if I could achieve something similar watercolouring with distress markers on some backgrounds I had been making that week using the shaving foam technique. Here's the card I produced, using lots of different little stamps with masking techniques:

Now, I had fully intended to write up the shaving foam technique and share it with you some Tuesday, then post the card, but you know how it is, I forgot all about it until this week when I got my August copy of Craft Stamper, and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the article "Steampunk Romance" by Liesbeth Fidder on page 48. Now, the colours are brighter, and the stamps are different, but it's amazing how similar the cards are, even down to using exactly the same turquoise and purple mats and layers! What I'm dying to know is whether Liesbeth was inspired by the same piece that I was :-)

Ingredients:

Paper Artsy stamp set Hot Picks HP1106

Technique Tusday stamp set Get in Gear

various other stamps from IndigoBlu, Graphic45, Hero Arts, 7Gypsies & free stamps Craft Stamper magazine.

Distress Markers & detail waterbrush

Ranger archival ink pad: jet black

background prepared using the Shaving foam technique with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

cardstock: purple 300gsm, turquoise 160gsm, white 220gsm

Entered for the following challenge:
Simon Says Stamp and Show - A Little Stamping