Saturday, May 10, 2014

Technique Play - Watercolor for Card Makers Part 2

Hello to everyone!! Two days in a row…hang on to your seat belts! I'm having so much fun watercoloring this week. In some ways this class is going by to fast and in other ways not fast enough for the rate I want to devour all of these new techniques. 

This card was so fun and easy to make. I just heat embossed this beautiful poppy stamp from Penny Black and then colored it in with my favorite watercolors from Winsor and Newton. I'm seriously addicted to how vibrant and beautiful these colors are. 


I'm learning the importance of using good watercolor paper. It really makes a huge difference.

The shading on the flowers is so easy to do. The more water, the lighter the color and the less water the deeper the color. Just like coloring with markers or colored pencils, I start light and than add in darker color as I go. Embossing the image helps the color to stay in the lines. 


I distressed the edges with a favorite little Tim Holtz gadget (linked below) and mounted the panel onto some Bazzil Candy Hearts Card Stock. I stamped the base with two colors of ink off set from each other using one of my favorite Impression Obsession background stamps (also linked below).

Here is a close up. Anyone want to go shopping for some flowers? I do. 


If you missed the previous post on other watercolor projects I've been working on from onlinecardclasses.com you can click here. 



Hope you are all having a wonderful and sunny spring. Happy Stamping!!



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Friday, May 9, 2014

Technique Play - Watercolor for Card Makers Part One


Wow! I am finally taking the time to post on my blog. It's been a wild and crazy spring at our house. In February I started taking a class to get my license to operate short wave radio. It was a lot harder then it seemed but I passed my test two weeks ago, I've received my call sign… KG7LET (in case you are as strange as I am and you want to know), and I'm currently shopping for a radio. That being said, I have a little more time to document my crafting fun. 

Currently, I am completely enamored with the new Watercolor for Card Makers class that is happening right now on onlinecardclasses.com. I've taken most of the classes they offer but this is by FAR my favorite class I've ever signed up for. It seems from others that I am not alone in this sentiment either. If you haven't signed up, it's not to late. 

Here are a couple of cards I've been working on for my "homework" this week. We are learning different ways to create watercolor backgrounds. 


While there are many different mediums that work well with water, I'm quickly falling in love with my Windsor Newton watercolor box. I love how portable it is and the colors are gorgeous. Here's a couple photos of it.


This first card uses removable liquid masking over this fun Hero Arts butterfly. So easy to accomplish and I love the effect.


This second card uses heat embossing resist for the background. Again, these colors make me sing a little bit…ok a lot bit...
 



I'll be back with more watercoloring "homework" tomorrow. Hopefully…I'll see you in class!

Happy Stamping!!




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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Technique Play - Die Cut Inlay

Whew! I guess I should consider it a good sign when my life is so busy it's hard to find time to do some card crafting these days. I've been dying (no pun intended) to play with some new dies and stamps and today is finally that day. Since today is the first day of Online Card Classes "Clean and Simple One Layer Cards", why not combine my playtime with homework time? Ahhhhh... 

Last March, I took my first online card class and loved it. I still love them all and get so excited for new ideas and techniques. This technique has been around for a little while but I've never done it because it seemed like a lot of work. It actually came together a lot quicker than I thought it would, and it was fun. 


Below is a picture walk through of some of the steps in making this card (when I remembered to snap a picture). For the background, I used Simon Says Stamp new large dot stencil and went over some cardstock with first SSS Audrey Blue ink and then off set it a little with some Hero Arts Unicorn white pigment ink. I finished it off with my favorite Spatter stamp from Impression Obsession with Hero Arts Blue Corn flower ink.

Next I die cut the United States from Lawn Fawn's new stamp and coordinating die set using this fun paper from Pebbles. I thought it would be perfect to send a fun card from "all of us" to my son who is out of the country. I used Jennifer McGuire's recommendation to ink around the edges of the die cut to ground it a little to the project. I then die cut the United States out from the card base and substituted the other one in its place. 


Following the same process, I covered the back with typing paper and adhesive I die cut the "hello" out of the card and removed it, substituted a sunshine yellow version and very carefully replaced any little pieces that came loose during the process. I also die cut and replaced the red heart and covered it with a clear glitter pen and some glossy accents.

Two coordinating strips of paper on the side and it's finished. It's technically probably not a one layer card because it's adhered to a white card base but everything does lie flat. 


Here is a peak at the inside of the card as well:


Happy Stamping!!







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