I based my design for this card on Operation Write Home's Sketch #218. I stamped the image in Versafine Onyx Black onto a panel of watercolor paper, using my MISTI so I could get a good impression. After hitting it briefly with my heat tool to dry the ink, I painted the image with my watercolors. I tried something different, and used a dark green for the shadows on the strawberries. I painted them first with Pyrrol Scarlet, then glazed the green over that in the shadow areas. I went back and forth with the red & green a few times, until the shadows looked right. I am REALLY happy with how my painting came out!
I cut my panels to the sizes noted in the sketch. (The patterned paper strip is from my scrap stash.) I matted everything with black cardstock for contrast, then adhered all the panels to my card base.
I used a greeting from the same stamp set as the strawberry image. Because I wanted to color the letters in with a water-based marker, I stamped it on smooth bristol paper so I would get smooth coverage with my marker. I colored the letters in with a red marker, that matched pretty well with the color I'd used on the berries. Finally, I cut it into a banner, matted that with black, and adhered it to my card. Because the image panel had a bit of thickness to it, I accordion-folded a small scrap of cardstock and adhered it under the left side of the greeting strip. That made it even, so it didn't dip on that end.
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