Friday, 5 May 2017

modern birthday scribbles


birthday bugs shaker


elegant sympathy



backgrounds and die cutting





backgrounds (watercolor)


All six of these cards were an experiment with watercolor and other background effects. You can lift color off your watercolored background by spritzing "anything", in this case I used the retired honeycomb die from Stampin' Up and pressed it onto my already-dried background, held it there a few seconds and lifted it up. Lo and behold, there was a honeycomb design left behind! Very subtle and beautiful. To create the collage effect I also lightly stamped other images, smudged ink and used markers to highlight various lines. The very bottom card is overlaid with vellum that I embossed those images on in Pool Party embossing powder.






birthday brayer


I embossed the peony image from "You've Got This". With Basic Black I stamped Happy Birthday and the seaweed image from "By The Tide".  Both of these flowers were colored with Stampin' Write markers and I brayered the shadows on the bottom right corner in coordinating colors.


some more typography and hand lettered