Today I had a little more time to stamp than usual. I wanted to reactivate a recent TLC, the embossed watercolor. Well, perhaps the way I combined embossing and watercoloring might not be just what was intended with the challenge, but it's a fun technique I wanted to share with you.
I first stamped the flowers with Versamark onto watercolor paper. Then I embossed it with white powder. Then I created a watercolor wash as background - important is to do this with a little patience in many layers (drying it with your heat tool between the layers speeds up the process), because only then you achieve all those color shades.
After having finished this piece, I stamped the image again - this time with Black Memories onto acetate. Then I attached the acetate panel over the watercolor panel, but put it just a tiny bit beside the lines - so this is the way you get the black and white contrast. Because the acetate is not fully attached to the watercolor panel, there's a very little space in between the two panels what makes the acetate image give a slight shadow onto the watercolor panel and creates more depth and interest.
I attached the whole panel onto a sanded cuttlebug-embossed panel, then onto a cream card. The only embellishment I used was a pink metallic heart brad - anything more would have distracted from the image, I guess.
Do you like this technique?
Date: Monday, June 30, 2008 GMT Views: 1084
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Mon, Jun 30, 2008 @ 5:30 PM
Christiane that is a beautiful card!! YOU ARE SO AN ARTIST!!! You once said no. You have all kinds of cool techniques. They are neat and they are special, only things that real artists do. Very pretty!! Is that for your mom??