I pulled some of my overseas craft stash out of our storage unit to sort through and purge, and found a sheet of orchid Peel-Off stickers from Elizabeth Craft Designs. I started my project by sticking one onto a piece of watercolor paper. The stickers are raised outlines, and they create great barriers for coloring, especially with wet mediums. For the blue background areas I wet each section then added a little Hydrus liquid watercolor and moved it around for varied color.
The flowers and leaves were colored using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens and Akashiya Sai markers, just blending the colors from dark to light while the ink was wet.
To add finer details to the orchids, I used a brown Micron pen and dotted towards the center of each flower. I used Impression Obsession dies to accent the focal panel, and a sentiment from my Warm Fuzzies clear set. The final risky step was to remove the sticker - I wasn't sure how 'stuck' it was, so I was hesitant to pull it away, but it came up with no tearing, and I love the effect.
Accessories: Elizabeth Craft Design Peel-Off sticker, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens and Akashiya Sai markers, Hydrus watercolors, Micron pen, Impression Obsession dies
Registered: December 15, 2011 Location: Abilene TX Posts: 11275
Sat, May 23, 2015 @ 9:54 AM
Dini, this is gorgeous! I would never have thought about removing the sticker - I have a ton of them and can't wait to give this a try! Thanks for the inspiration!
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Registered: November 21, 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 6866
Sat, May 23, 2015 @ 1:20 PM
Such a great idea for outline peel offs, Dina! I thought at first you had colored the sticker somehow, until reading on about you peeling the outline away. Great job, love the results!
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Registered: August 25, 2005 Location: Prior Lake, MN Posts: 454
Sat, May 23, 2015 @ 5:43 PM
Thank you so much for the inspiring idea on using the Elizabeth Craft stickers this way. I can't wait to dust mine off and give it a try. Your watercolor is so lovely...tyfs.