Hey everyone! I'd meant to have this posted earlier today, but the local pool opened yesterday and my kids were dying to go swimming, then the lawn had to be mowed, and a little person needed her bath.....ya know - life!
Anywho are y'all tired of the watercoloring? I hope not because I can't seem to stop LOL! I'm *really* having fun with it - and for this card I pulled out my Distress Markers:
I've been itching to use this Flower Garden stamp I got from Stamping Bella not too long ago - I LOVE floral line images for coloring and this one with it's scribbly lines is PERFECT for experimenting with IMO!
I also pulled out my old Great Greetings stamp set that I haven't used in forever - I chose the hello stamp from the set and embossed it onto some vellum with black embossing powder. Normally I'm not a fan of black EP because it's so messy - but I don't like the look of stamping in black and embossing with clear on vellum - to me it looks washed out.
Funny story - so if you watch Kristina Werner's videos (and if you don't you should) you'll know she does this thing with water in her hand to make it fall in droplets on her Distress Ink colored images. Looks pretty easy right? Well I tried it on this image and edited out my big eff-up LOL - lets just say there weren't so much droplets as a big splat of water :P. Thankfully I had the paper towel right beside me and was able to mop it up before I totally ruined the watercoloring. So that's why I chose to flick the water on with a brush - more control for me...
I was worried I'd made a mess of the inside of the card, but I really am happy with how it turned out. And now I'm wondering if I could pull it off again on a card of it's own as I'd like to have something like this on the *front* of a card...
To see how I made this card check out the video below:
Or watch directly on YouTube HERE <-----click!
