Spring will come...
someday.
And in anticipation that it is going to start showing itself sometime, I'm bringing back the spring-like bouquet from the Wonderful Romance Bundle. To be totally honest, this was probably a 10 minute card, start to finish. Because that is about all the time I had to get it done.
Inspiration came from today's Splitcoaststamper Color Challenge, CC729. I'm happy to share that I am one of 3 guest designers for that challenge this month.
The colors are Granny Apple Green + Melon Mambo + So Saffron + Pool Party Desert, which is optional, is to add a spring image.
Well, most of my day Monday was devoted to a stamping event with one of my downline. But I knew I would need to get this card done and photographed before I left home. One of my favorite stamps this season is the bouquet from Wonderful Romance and it really came to the rescue. It works perfectly with these colors which gift it a lovely spring look.
- I started by stamping the bouquet with Versamark ink on watercolor paper. I applied clear embossing powder and heated it just until it was shiny. This is a fine line and you need to watch carefully to avoid overheating the powder.
- I grabbed an aquapainter and marked out the center of the three flowers with a tiny bit of So Saffron ink on the tip of my brush. I used ink in my ink pad covers to do my watercolor.
- It isn't easy to paint a clear embossed image so I kept the stamp case with the image nearby for reference.
- Once I knew where the flowers were I started adding a light wash of green to everything else so I could start to see the clear embossing which resists the watercolor, hence the term "emboss resist". I dabbed some So Saffron on the tiny sprays but they still weren't showing up well so I add a little green there and deepened the green on some of the smaller leaves.
- I added a Pool Party blue wash but it really wasn't working for me. So I finished up the water coloring by doing the 3 little flowers in Melon Mambo. Then I cut it out with the matching die the little details in the die cut helped to keep the bouquet in focus.
- Next I trimmed a 3 3/4" x 5" piece of watercolor paper and did a soft Pool Party wash on it, squeezing on a fair amount of water onto the ink pad lid to make sure the wash was light.
- I stamped "Thinking of You" in Granny Apple Green on a 1" x 3 3/4" piece of Whisper White and layered the greeting and cut out bouquet over the Pool Party Wash.
- This was layered onto a 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" piece of Pool Party cardstock and then onto a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" Whisper White card.
- A few pearls from the Share What You Love Artisan Pearls in the center of the three flowers were the finishing touch.
There is a whole gallery full of artwork with these colors here.
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