Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Watercoloring with Reverse Confetti

I have been excited to share this for the last five days. I had a little bit more of "just for me" stamping and card making last week and I decided to pull out my distress markers and do some water coloring with the flowers from the latest release by Reverse Confetti. I love being inspired by my design team sistahs! After seeing a few recent projects by Amy Kolling and Sarah Gough, I  sat down to make this card. I also watched a video from the Lawn Fawn Youtube channel and loved the colors Nicole used. 



I started with some white embossing of the outline images of the Love Blooms stamp set onto Tim Holtz distress watercolor paper. Once that was dry, I set to water coloring. I don't have all the pretty colors (although after this project I decided I needed,wanted the mini ink pads, so I ordered those yesterday. 12 of them anyway. thanks to Amazon Prime, they'll arrive tomorrow!). I quickly scribbled my markers onto an acrylic block and used my aqua painter to pick up the color. I let the flowers dry and then water colored a background with similar colors-spun sugar, picked raspberry, and dusty concord, scattered straw. 



After all my water colored pieced were dry, I used the Love Blooms Confetti Cuts to die cut my flowers. I cut out my main image panel with the Tagged Tote die

I just love that rounded piece. I wanted some gold tones mixed in with the pretty pastels, so I stamped the sentiment in Fuse Green ink. It's such a unique shade and looks beautiful with the water colored flowers. I then scattered some gold sequins about, for some blingy accents! I added a strip of Gold Foil cardstock along the bottom to balance my panel and then used a skinny card base, 3.75 x 5.5 inches. I love how this came together. 






Have a wonderful Wednesday. I hope all my friends in the Northeast are starting to shovel their way out of that snow. I have to be honest, I don't care for snow all that much, but I am a bit jealous of it. I do like a good snowfall at least once during the winter. Stay warm, friends!


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4 comments:

  1. This is lovely Lisa! Beautiful soft colors.

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  2. This is gorgeous! Fuse green as "gold"? Perfect!

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  3. Lisa, this is SO beautiful! LOVE the soft coloring on these gorgeous flowers!

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