I really wanted to step out of my comfort zone and use ALL the colors. So I decided to use one of the techniques I learned from Tim Holtz. It involves daubing some paint onto your craft sheet, spritzing the paint with water, then dragging, or smashing, the paper through the watered down colors. I love doing this because it makes such an artsy watercolor blended effect! I decided I wanted a bit more texture so I used his Layered Stencil with embossing paste to add the raised dots (they feel and look really cool!). I really love embossing paste. The only down side about paste is that you have to let it dry for at least an hour - yet I really think it's worth the wait!
I had cut down my custom designed background to create this CAS card - and I had some left over after cutting - so expect another card soon! (Smiles)
Please join us and be inspired to create your own color explosion this week! It's so much FUN!
Hugs,
Audrie
Date: Friday, January 17, 2014 GMT Views: 1662
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105267
Sat, Jan 18, 2014 @ 3:33 PM
Fab colors, and the technique is wonderful!!
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
Registered: February 27, 2007 Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin Posts: 39662
Sat, Jan 18, 2014 @ 4:17 PM
This is exactly the kind of card I love best: a bold, or beautiful, or subtle but powerful image in the center, nothing else around it to complete. super! and well done with picking that site!
------------------------------ Jean Bean the Dancing Queen "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." -John Coltrane
Registered: March 24, 2006 Location: Deep in the Heart of TEXAS Posts: 15980
Sun, Jan 19, 2014 @ 9:38 AM
Audrie, great card! Love the bright colors and the interesting texture you have achieved! Nicely done!
------------------------------ Phyllis Young at heart, slightly older in other parts. We really never grow up, we just learn how to act in public!! What if you woke up today with only what you had thanked God for yesterday??
How bright and cheerful. To dry the paste faster... put the paper on one of the heating/warming trays so popular in the 60s and 70s. It HUGELY expidites the drying process.