Good morning! Wow I feel like it has been forever since I’ve been able to get my craft on. I’ve got some great ideas for projects but I’ve been waiting on supplies and mainly just having some uninterrupted crafty time. I’ll need to be kicking it into high gear here over the next week or so . . . I’m way behind in design teams projects and my month is slowly disappearing.
I tried to get a little inky over the weekend but I’m afraid the mojo up and ran away . . . everything I tried was nothing that I felt comfortable with. I was able to salvage one image and believe me . . . what looks like it took 30 minutes actually took 2 days.
I decided to watercolor one of my favorite Stampendous images, Garden Background. The image was embossed with Queen’s Gold Embossing Powder and then water colored with various Distress Ink Refills. (I’ve listed them all below in the supply list).
I wasn’t very neat with my water coloring on purpose. I was trying for the free flowing look with lots of water and dropping in the inks.
The image and the layer behind it was die cut/embossed with the new Spellbinders™ 5×7 Matting Basics. At first I thought I wanted to go with just a plain white layer behind the flowers, but it was a little to stark for me. I ended up sponging on some Tumbled Glass and Antique Linen Distress Inks to tone down the white, then edged the layer with Krylon Gold Leafing Pen. I liked the look so well, that I ended up doing the same thing with the white paper layer behind the 5×7 Detailed Scallops layer.
I think I was in a springy mood when I was water coloring the image. I’m tired of cold weather! It can be 60 here one day and 30 the next . . . ah the joys of living in the Ohio Valley. The daffodils have been peeking out of the ground for a month now and I noticed last week that the Naked Ladies are popping up in the boulevard . . . I’m ready to get outside and take some baby walks!
Well, that’s all for me today. I’ve got a project to work on for Quietfire that needs to be posted tomorrow . . . so I guess I’ll see you tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by today!!
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