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Scrap'n Stamp Canada- Watercolour Wishes Blog Hop

07/09/2019 Nancy Grace 1778 18 Scrap'n Stamp Canada Watercolour Wishes Blog Hop Color-bursts ken-olive Picket-fence-studio-stamps Hero-Arts-stencils My-Favorite-things-dies water-colour-techniques cards handmade-cards die-cutting

I have linked to everyone on the blog just in case you did not start at the very beginning.  I hope you enjoy and remember to leave some love along the way to be entered into the giveaway. 
Tara—Fist stop
Nancy F—You are here
Sandi— Next on the hop
 
Now on to the show, I decided to play with the Color Burst by ken Oliver for my project, and play around with some techniques I learned watching some previously purchased water-colour video classes from online card classes. 
 
I have to tell you I went a little nutty creating with the Color Bursts and trying out different ideas and methods, but this is the one that stood out for me so these are what I used for my cards. 
 
I was inspired by one video in particular, where she did a colour wash then added the stencil and wiped away the excess, so this is my sort of take on it. 
 
           
 
So I tried a few different takes of this, for this version i started off with just water-color paper placed the stencil down and added the color burst powders right on top and sprayed with water using my distress mister. I decded to add another card ontop as to not waste any of the ink and see what kind of image I would.  I loved how it turned out so much so I made a few more versions of it. 
 
      
  
For the second version, I start off by adding the Color Burst right on to the paper spritzing, allowing the ink to move around and blend and set aside to dry a bit.  I came back in with my peacock feather and the leafy stencil and added water to it and pressed it down like a stamp.  I used some paper towel and the brier to press it down – this gave a nice ghosting effect.
 
 
 
I did numerous panels like this, occasionally changing the colour pallet.  For some I even went back in with more Color Burst and water to intensify the look.  
 

  

To turn these into cards I decided I would make shaker cards, as I liked the Picket Fence “Shake Our Tail Feathers” stamp set and knew I wanted to use it for this hop.  I created a shaker by stamping the main image on acetate and I was able to use the colours from the background to highlight the feather stamp.  I initially only did one card using gold embossing but soon decided one was not nearly enough so I heat embossed in black and in white to see which really stood out the most.  I die cut out black frames using both my Infinity dies and my MFT stitched frames, each of the cards meassures a little bit different as all my panels varied in size when I started. 

 

For this particular card, I created a bit larger style which measures 5 x 6¼.  I die cut a frame from heavy black cardstock using my Infinity dies from Hero Arts, I die cut this three times.  I then stamped the peacock feather onto the heat resistant acetate and embossed with gold powder.  I trimmed the acetate down to fit under the frame.  Then I sandwiched the acetate between the frames giving a little more stability.  I layered the purple inked panel which measures 5¾ x 4½ onto some textured black cardstock which measures 4¾ x 6 and added that on to the base of the card with some fun foam. 

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Before I finished off the shaker of the card I went around the frame with some Versa Mark ink and then dipped the edges of the frame into some purple sparkly embossing powder and heat set this.  I repeated the process for the sentiment as well, which I previously stamped and embossed using gold powder and die cut using my nesting circle dies.  I added foam around the frame and all the sequins in to the middle of the card panel.  I did add some dots of glue in places so some of the sequins would stick.  I added the top of the panel and popped up the sentiment in the middle of the peackcock feather. 

 

(I appologize if this is a little winded or hard to follow.  Trying to write while taking care of my moody 4 year old twins, who decided today would be a great day to go off the rails on mommy!)

Please remember to head to each blog and leave a comment as well as each of our social media posts sharing our creations.  Both will give you a chance to win. 

If you were inspired to try the Color Burst Scrap’n Stamp has them in stock and are 20% off this weekend.  So head on over and check it out.

Wishing you all love and creativity this weekend.

Nancy F.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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