Monthly Archives: April 2015

A Happy Thing for Watercolouring

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This is the first card that I have really watercoloured – as in, I have coloured in the card rather than making a background. It is really fun and easier than I expected although I’m not kidding myself that I’ve mastered this. I will definitely need to get a book on watercolouring. But it is more gratifying than any colouring that I did with the blendabilities.

Stampin' Up A Happy Thing

I used a mask that I’d previously snipped out so that I could have three lemons since the stamp only has one. I stamped the images in stazon black ink so that the lines wouldn’t run. Using the aquapainter is easier for me if I don’t have too much water in it – otherwise I seemed to be getting a bit of a lake on the paper. I coloured in the leaves using a drop wild wasabi re-inker which I put on a clear block. I put the brush into the drop and swirled it around a bit on the block so that I was diluting it and then checked the colour on scrap paper before colouring on the watercolour paper. After that I used so saffron for the lemons and did the same way. I started at the edges of the lemons and made those darker going lighter towards the middle.

The watercolour paper was 4.5″ by 3″ (a quarter sheet) which left some white space at the bottom which just didn’t seem to fit with a sentiment. So I trimmed a half an inch off it and then I was happy with it. I put a skinny mat of black around it and mounted it on a base of wild wasabi. I lined the envelope with the backgrounds DSP in wild wasabi.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Painted Petals Watercoloured

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I can definitely see that there’s going to be a lot of watercolouring going on at my house for a while. And the Painted Petals set already gives the watercolour look, so I had to put them together!

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

I used the same technique as last week but the circle is smaller. I cut out a circle using the big shot and the circles collection and then held that over my watercolour paper. I used so saffron and wild wasabi to create the background. Once it was dry, I stamped the stems from the Painted Petals set in wild wasabi and the flowers in rose red. The sentiment, also stamped in rose red, comes from the Sheltering Tree stamp set.

I tried various mats with this but nothing actually added to the card and most detracted from it. So, after applying the sticky strip (I have fast fuse on order which I think will be perfect for this) I mounted the card onto a rose red base. I lined the envelope using the Envelope Liners framelits and the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Watercolour Thank You

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I had previously made a spanish thank you card using the Gracias En Acuarelas stamp set which is equivalent to the Watercolor Thank you set. It occurred to me that the April image from the Stampin’ Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set would make a good background for this. To begin with, I tried making a card with an extra layer but eventually realised that watercolor and layers don’t really make sense. One is fun and not precise and the other is very precise. Don’t you agree?

Stampin' Up! Gracias en acuarelas

The imprecise splodge is the “April” image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar set and I stamped it in pool party on very vanilla. I originally tried whisper white but in its stark white-edness, it seemed to have too much precision also. Or maybe I just haven’t had enough sleep. Anyway, I then stamped the gracias image in lost lagoon – I do much prefer lost lagoon on very vanilla instead of whisper white actually. I then mounted this piece on a base of lost lagoon. The envelope is lined in lost lagoon from, yes, you guessed it, the backgrounds DSP from the incolor 2014 pack.

Perpetual Birthday Calendar reused

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I was using the tree image from the Stampin’ Up! Thoughts and Prayers set last month to make a sympathy card – the set has a lot of sympathy and get better type sentiments. I really like the tree image and decided to use it for other cards too. I’ve made a number of cards with it lately in addition to the aforementioned sympathy card –  a thinking of you and another birthday card. It’s amazing what a change in colour can do to the feel of a card.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar, Wetlands, Thoughts & Prayers

This time I decided to use the big April image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar, a splodge for want of a better description. I first stamped it as the sky in pool party on very vanilla and then the ground in pear pizzazz. I stamped the tree image over this in early espresso. Originally I was very against brown on cards, especially birthday cards (I wore brown in primary school; my school uniform colours appear to have had a long lasting effect!) but I am getting rather fond of a touch of early espresso here and there.

I also used early espresso for the sentiment. You don’t recognise where it comes from? It’s from the Wetlands set. I mounted this on a piece of early espresso that is just 1/8 inch larger than the very vanilla. I really like the skinny early espresso mat. This went on a pear pizzazz base and the envelope is lined in the pear pizzazz backgrounds DSP. I may have to challenge myself to have a week of card making without using pear pizzazz!

See you tomorrow,

Liz