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They are all so pretty. No spring here! On the coast it is cool damp and will rain all day!

Oooooh Pam! Very pretty cards. Smart idea using sparkly Thickers for the sentiments. So...Oxides for the background? Must know what you used for the pretty water color effect.



I worked last night on a springy stamp and hope to post it today. (Don’t care much about SB...it will be on in the background). It has felt like Spring here for the last few days. Wintering birds are gulping down my seed preparing for the big push to their distant nesting sites soon. It was 74 yesterday!

Just cheap watercolors. I clear embossed the floral stamp. No matter how I try, I end up trying to “color” with the medium. I won’t quit my day job!

Another spring-like card to add. This is one whole stamp by Taylored Expressions(with the exception to sentiment) that has been sitting untouched for a few months. I embossed it (on Bristol paper) in Altenew Rose Gold embossing powder and colored it with water color pencils. I discovered how much I like using the pencils and ended up spraying a puddle of water on a palette, dipping pencil directly into the puddle and then applying it to the image. Sometimes I wetted the area with a brush first to blend. Other times I didn’t bother at all. But I really enjoyed experimenting with this collection of pencils that I hadn’t used much. I found it so relaxing.

Previewing this post I had to laugh at how close the colors of my card are to the lid of my watercolor pencils! It was not visible at all while I colored the card. I use the lid for my paint pallet.

I signed up for the Watercolor for Cards class at Online Card Classes last year and then promptly forgot about it until I went to their website to see if anything new was coming up and saw it in my list of classes This is my first attempt at the negative watercoloring technique. I still find myself trying to color in the image, but it's not bad for a first try. I think it needs something more on the front. Either a sentiment or maybe a cutout of the waterlily colored more vibrantly.

Pretty cards. Farley, your card is so much like the lid! Subliminal inspiration?

Rachelle- I’m with you. I should stamp an image about 20 times to see if I can train myself to stop coloring! Your card is very pretty though. I love the colors.

Another card using the same Taylored Expressions floral stamp as above. This time I used only two tombow markers. A magenta and a green plus a grey for the background. I wanted to see if I could vary the one color enough to look like several several shades of the magenta and green.

I used a double sided adhesive fun foam for the hello die cut and used Nuvo Sparkle Dust On it. I will use the dust again but I don’t recommend using the sticky fun foam. It was a royal pain despite it turning out alright.

paddlegal wrote:Another card using the same Taylored Expressions floral stamp as above. This time I used only two tombow markers. A magenta and a green plus a grey for the background. I wanted to see if I could vary the one color enough to look like several several shades of the magenta and green.

I used a double sided adhesive fun foam for the hello die cut and used Nuvo Sparkle Dust On it. I will use the dust again but I don’t recommend using the sticky fun foam. It was a royal pain despite it turning out alright.

So pretty - a very successful experiment with the markers!

beautiful

It really gives the stamp a completely different look, very pretty!