I saw the
CAS Mix Up theme of bleaching & planned to skip it. Then I saw that my friend,
Betty, bleached DO inks using water. That'll teach me not to read the whole post--haha! My elements are bleaching, stamping & splatter. I was about to start my entry for
ITP Project Reach Out: Flower cards, so combined the challenges to make this card.
The last time I tried bleaching with water, I didn't use vivid colors. The effect wasn't very noticeable, so this time I used DO picked raspberry & wilted violet on a long white cardstock scrap. When it was totally dry I black embossed images from PTI MIM Garden Gild Mini. I used a small paintbrush with plain water to remove much of the color. The effect was obvious with the open blooms & hard to tell with the others. I liked the contrast, so no problem. However, the open blooms were a bit blah, so I colored them first with a silver glimmer pen. That made them a little too dark, so I colored over that with a clear glimmer pen & love it! The other blooms were actually colored with a pink or purple Distress Marker. I trimmed the panel to the size I needed & added white gauche paint splatters. The word from PTI Counting My Blessings was die cut 3 times from black cardstock. I covered it with the silver glimmer pen & Nuvo Glaze--so pretty in person.
The stamped words are from the same set. I added pearls & gems--sometimes just can't keep it flat! Blogging friends are indeed a blessing, so this is going to one of them. I'm also entering
Inkspirational &
The Snippets Playground.
I generally think of pastels as Spring colors, but recently I've noticed lots of vivid pinks to reds when I walk Fritz. The
Gina K April Challenge is Spring Fling &
ABNH calls for watercolor. Here's my card combining the challenges.
The gold embossed floral image from HA/GK Friendship Blooms was colored with Geranium Red & May Green Zigs using a waterbrush. I gold embossed a sentiment from the same set & splattered the Zigs.
The edges of the card front were gold embossed before I attached the panel. I'm also entering
CAS Watercolor &
WAW.
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