Hi Everyone!
OK I will say right now I had zero idea where I was going with this card. I knew three things – I wanted to do a Flower card to enter the Flower Challenge, it had to be yellow and blue, and I wanted to play with watercolours. That’s it.
So, I started off with some watercolour paper and The Ton Stamps Wild Peonies stamp set and got busy. I used the MISTI to stamp the outline peony images in Versamark (using my embossing powder tool first) and then heat embossed in Ranger superfine gold. I then cut masks of those four images and proceeded to half cover my paper in embossed peonies. Two things I discovered – use the embossing powder tool between every heat embossing. and make sure you use a dry paintbursh to remove the flecks that inevitably get stuck where the masks were BEFORE you heat emboss!
At the end I added a few leaf images from the set. I then used my Mission Gold watercolours and a round brush to paint the flowers and allowed to dry. For the background I blended on some Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans Distress inks, and then used the Distress sprayer to squirt water speckles onto it.
To finish the card, I die cut the watercoloured piece using Simon Says Stamps’ stitched rectangles and adhered the whole thing to a Neenah Solar White 110lb card base. I stacked three hello die cuts from Altenew’s Halftone Hello die set using Neenah Solar White and liquid adhesive and added to the card. I then coated the whole word in clear Nuvo Drops. Weirdly after they dried they cracked, like crackle glaze! I also added some co-ordinating yellow and blue Nuvo Drops. I LOVE NUVO DROPS!!! 😀
That’s it – kind of a random pattern that turned out into quite a decent card in the end – and I stuck to my NY Resolution to use what I had!!
I’m entering this into the Flower Challenge this week. Great new challenge I strongly encourage you all to check it out.
Jenny x
Fun to read that you just started and came up with this beauty! Enjoy the sunday!
Wow Jenny you certainly made a lovely card!great stamping and colouring and great design too.I have some Nuvo drops but still to use mine yet, they look beautiful too, must get using mine. Thank you so much for joining us over at 'The Flower Challenge' and we hope to see you again soon 😉 Viv DT xx
Wonderfully here arranged the surface of the card! I love the combination of these colors, and delicate gold embosssing looks so beautiful.
Hugs,
BożenA