and had an idea of the card I wanted to make. I also planned on entering it in Nancy Littrell's DTGD challenge but missed the deadline - mainly because it was harder to create what I had in my mind than I expected. I made four attempts, two on watercolour paper and two on coated cardstock and experimenting with whether brushos or watercolour paints gave a better effect.
This version is one of my watercolour paper attempts using brushos. I stenciled the flower spray with pearlescent paste, then when dry, I sprinkled bits of red, blue, and yellow brushos around the image, spritzed with water until I got the colours very pale. Problem was they dried way too dark and it looked horrible and gaudy. Some of my other attempts came out too pale so I was ready to give up.
I showed them to my friends Loll and Christine when we got together to craft, and they suggested toning this one down with some white gesso. So I did that and it really worked well.
Added a heat embossed sentiment and rather too many little flower sequins, then popped it up on fun foam.
Date: Thursday, August 11, 2016 GMT Views: 381
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