Loll Thompson and Bonnie Klass have a great challenge called CAS Mix-Up. This is its second month and the challenge for April is stamping + stenciling + one or more other elements of your choice. My other elements are brushos, watercolour paints, texture paste, splatter, and gemstones.
A while back I had stamped the same petunias with brushos but left it as an outline image. I wanted to try it both stamped and painted in with brushos so that's what I did here. I painted the stamp with various purple, violet, and green brushos that I'd watered down a bit on my craft sheet. Then stamped and let it dry a bit. Then using my waterbrush, I picked up more of the colour and filled in the flowers and leaves. When that was dry, I did a blue wash around it with watercolour paints. I stamped my sentiment in grey. I laid a stencil over the top, went through just areas on the corners and sides with texture paste, and let that dry. Last touch was a light splatter using the sentiment ink watered down a bit. The panel is popped up on fun foam and a couple of purple gemstones added to the flowers.
If you'd like to join the challenge at CAS Mix-up, here is the link:
Registered: December 14, 2007 Location: Vancouver canada Posts: 8914
Sun, Apr 10, 2016 @ 5:11 PM
I love the flow of colours from the brusho and the watercolour wash in the background it really makes the stenciling stand out.
I still haven't tried this but it's differently on my to do list.
Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Sun, Apr 10, 2016 @ 5:31 PM
Beautifully painted Susan! I love your use of the white space and the texture paste as a border is definitely an idea I will borrow. This is a terrific, mixed media card!
Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92633
Tue, Apr 12, 2016 @ 11:36 AM
Love the "watery" look of your watercoloring(way I like watercolors....so one can easily see that was the medium) I think Maura of the CC Team was inspired by your color palette. : ) (Well, probably not really, but you nailed today's CC)