I used Lawn Fawn's Our Friendship Grows for the flower, some Distress Ink in Walnut Stain and then my watercolors from Michaels to finish it off. The sentiment is from a Fiskars set called All Year Greetings.
Showing posts with label Our Friendship Grows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our Friendship Grows. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
It's Your Birthday - Inspired by Watercolor for Card Makers
I'm not so sure about this card. I like the concept, but I'm not really happy with the execution. I might try it again, but I'm hoping this one will just grow on me. I was trying to do a technique from my watercolor class, Watercolor for Card Makers over at onlinecardclasses.com where you use the stamp as the starting point using an ink that will blend in..., well, while I love the class samples, I just don't think this technique fits with my style. I couldn't bring myself to blend away the outline. I combined that with another technique of masking an area to watercolor without getting any in that area. I think it might work, but I couldn't quite get all the mask up and somehow I managed to rub away some of the paper too. It look okay from a distance, but, up close, I'm not as happy with it.
I used Lawn Fawn's Our Friendship Grows for the flower, some Distress Ink in Walnut Stain and then my watercolors from Michaels to finish it off. The sentiment is from a Fiskars set called All Year Greetings.
I used Lawn Fawn's Our Friendship Grows for the flower, some Distress Ink in Walnut Stain and then my watercolors from Michaels to finish it off. The sentiment is from a Fiskars set called All Year Greetings.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Happy Mother's Day - Inspired by Watercolor for Card Makers
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Here's the card I made for my Mom:
Yes, it's another card from things I learned in the onlinecardclasses.com class Watercolor for Card Makers. You are going to see a lot of posts about it because that class rocks. This card was made with a Cover-a-Card background stamp from Impression Obsession called Circle Fusion. I heat embossed it with some VersaMark Dazzle and clear embossing powder. Then I played with my watercolors over the image (and wiped up the excess on top of the image with a baby wipe). I then watercolored some stamps from Lawn Fawn's Our Friendship Grows set and cut them out with the matching dies. I stamped the sentiment using the "happy" from Simon Says Stamp's Happy Sentiments set and the "mother's day" from Technique Tuesday's Swanky Sentiment set. Then I cut a flagged banner and added some Old Paper Distress Ink to tone down the white a bit. A few pop dots and glue and I was done.
Yes, it's another card from things I learned in the onlinecardclasses.com class Watercolor for Card Makers. You are going to see a lot of posts about it because that class rocks. This card was made with a Cover-a-Card background stamp from Impression Obsession called Circle Fusion. I heat embossed it with some VersaMark Dazzle and clear embossing powder. Then I played with my watercolors over the image (and wiped up the excess on top of the image with a baby wipe). I then watercolored some stamps from Lawn Fawn's Our Friendship Grows set and cut them out with the matching dies. I stamped the sentiment using the "happy" from Simon Says Stamp's Happy Sentiments set and the "mother's day" from Technique Tuesday's Swanky Sentiment set. Then I cut a flagged banner and added some Old Paper Distress Ink to tone down the white a bit. A few pop dots and glue and I was done.
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