Ever since Betsy's PTI MIM video on April 1, I've been playing with watercolor techniques & loving it. Now the current MIM video by Heather is on watercoloring embossed images including a background. I'd never tried that, so had to play along with some PTI stamps. I randomly white embossed an image from Year of Flowers Collection all over a light yellowish cream cardstock scrap. I tapped my Distress Inks pumice stone & frayed burlap onto an acrylic block & painted with a waterbrush focusing on the edges. I really love the depth it adds. I embossed 2 more of the images, fussy cut the smaller blooms & colored them the same way using Distress Inks spun sugar & picked raspberry. I had a die cut of the little leaf cluster from The Sweet Life lying on my table, so stamped it in Simply Chartreuse, first stamping off with the solid image & then full strength with the detail image. I inked half of the Boutique Borders: Birthday image with Versafine Vintage Sepia & stamped on a white scrap. The sentiment from the same set is stamped in picked reaspbery. Passion For Papertrey's current challenge is to use texture on your card & I love the look of burlap with kraft & white. The flowers are mounted with foam tape & tiny brown pearls are attached to their centers. Hope you're having a nice weekend. Thanks for taking time to visit my blog. ETA: I'm entering this card in the Moxie Fab World Wonder of Watercolor Challenge.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Happy Birthday water color style
Ever since Betsy's PTI MIM video on April 1, I've been playing with watercolor techniques & loving it. Now the current MIM video by Heather is on watercoloring embossed images including a background. I'd never tried that, so had to play along with some PTI stamps. I randomly white embossed an image from Year of Flowers Collection all over a light yellowish cream cardstock scrap. I tapped my Distress Inks pumice stone & frayed burlap onto an acrylic block & painted with a waterbrush focusing on the edges. I really love the depth it adds. I embossed 2 more of the images, fussy cut the smaller blooms & colored them the same way using Distress Inks spun sugar & picked raspberry. I had a die cut of the little leaf cluster from The Sweet Life lying on my table, so stamped it in Simply Chartreuse, first stamping off with the solid image & then full strength with the detail image. I inked half of the Boutique Borders: Birthday image with Versafine Vintage Sepia & stamped on a white scrap. The sentiment from the same set is stamped in picked reaspbery. Passion For Papertrey's current challenge is to use texture on your card & I love the look of burlap with kraft & white. The flowers are mounted with foam tape & tiny brown pearls are attached to their centers. Hope you're having a nice weekend. Thanks for taking time to visit my blog. ETA: I'm entering this card in the Moxie Fab World Wonder of Watercolor Challenge.
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Your card is beautiful! You always use some of the coolest techniques when making your cards. I gave up on embossing a long time ago.
ReplyDeletebeautifully done, greta! you are so good with watercoloring, my friend! love the touch of burlap that you added to the card, as well!
ReplyDeleteLook how pretty and fancy this is!! It turned out SO well. And I love that bit of burlap you used, too. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteGreta this is SO VERY pretty! I love the rustic burlap. Pairing it with the dainty flowers gave your card sweet country charm!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a stunner Greta. Love the colours of the background.
ReplyDeleteGreat job with the watercoloring, Greta! I love this pretty card!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is so pretty Greta. I love the watercolor technique and all the pretty accents you added!
ReplyDeleteLove the watercoloring! Beautiful design!
ReplyDeletegorgeous!
ReplyDeleteHey Greta! Thanks for linking this up to the Wonder of Watercolor Challenge in the Moxie Fab World! I'm so glad you joined in on all the fun! :)
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