A super simple card today playing with a brand new stamp set from the Occasions catalog along with the watercolor pencils, Moon Baby. It’s an adorable stamp set and it caught my eye the first time I looked through the catalog. I was extra happy to hear that two of my colleagues at work are both about to become fathers so that I have an excuse to play with it!
I re-inked my archival basic black first – I don’t think I remember to do that enough, it was really thirsty. Seeing as it’s used on a high percentage of cards, it probably should be done fairly regularly. I stamped the image and sentiment onto a piece of watercolor paper and then started laying down some colour with the pencils – daffodil delight for the moon, calypso coral for the face, a little early espresso for the hair and a mixture of calypso coral and melon mambo for the clothing. I used the blender pen to pick up the early espresso from the tip of the pencil rather than putting the pencil directly onto the paper. Then I blended all the colour, adding more where it needed it. It was a nice relaxing five minutes. Since I stamped two copies of this, I think I’ll go and have another five minutes with Moon Baby!
Then it was a simple matter of adding a piece of basic black as a mat with fast fuse – my adhesive of choice where watercolour paper is concerned – and then gluing that to a daffodil delight card base. For the final touch, I added a gold metallic star.
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See you tomorrow,
Liz