Make a wish watercoloured card with silhouette die cuts

Hi everyone, it's Esther here with a watercoloured card inspired by Spring!

I started by watercolouring a panel with three Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens (041 Light Green, 051 Lemon Yellow, 027 Dark Pink), splashing it with water and mopping off for a bleach effect, then splattering over with three slightly darker shades (047 May Green, 050 Yellow, 082 Purple).

While the panel dried, I die cut a leaf spray from Altenew Botanical Garden, once in black and once in white, and layered these up for a shadow effect. 

When the panel was dry, I splattered black acrylic paint over it and then die cut it with a stitched rectangle from My Favorite Things Blueprints 29. I added the leaf sprays to the panel and stamped a sentiment from Mama Elephant Make a Wish.

Finally, I mounted the panel onto a black panel underneath, then onto a white card base slightly wider than the top layers.

Thanks for stopping by!

      

Masking Frenzy with Altenew

Don’t let today’s blog post title discourage you: I might have gone into a slight masking frenzy, but everything I’ve done is easy to replicate and all you need are actually just two masks. And the effect you can achieve is so pretty, it’s well worth the effort, I believe. Shall I show you? :)

I created my masks from post-it tape, you could also use regular post it notes as a cheap alternative. Of course, masking paper would be best, but it’s not necessary. So is the MISTI, but I just it for convenience in case my first impression isn’t perfect. Your regular acrylic blocks will do just fine, too. The stamp set I am using today is Altenew’s “Botanical Garden”.

I wanted to create a “border” around my front panel, which is slightly smaller than my card base (accidentally cut a whole bunch of them too small, so now I have to add patterned paper to my card bases to make up for it … happy accident!). For my stamping, I used the My Favorite Things Hybrid ink since it would work well with Copics.

While you could go crazy with colors here, I decided to keep it to purple and orange for a summer card. I could totally see the same card with turquoise and green florals for a spring variation, too! In addition to some Lidquid Pearl accents I also added some sequins for sparkle and shine.

As with most of my cards, there's a video on my blog to show you the entire process. You can find the link to my blog in the sidebar to the right.

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you got inspired!

Botanical Garden	Beautiful Day	Proper Pinstripes 6x6 Papers	Black Licorice HYBRID Ink Pad
Stick It	Pewter Glitter	Stamp Shammy SHC UK

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Keeping it CAS with Altenew

Hey crafters! Julia here today – I know you're expecting Keren, but we did a switch. So, no worries! She'll delight you with her creations later this week.

You know how I always struggle with my fear of white space and how I just have to mess with it? Yeah. With this card, though, I stayed the course even though everything in me screamed to add embellishments, more images, … something to make it less white. I have to admit – I love how it turned out, so maybe that will help me in the future to bravely allow for more white space.

I started out by stamping the same flower from Altenew’s “Botanical Garden” twice in the lower corner and once in the top corner. I didn’t do any fancy masking, just made sure the images on the bottom wouldn’t overlap.

Since I knew that I wanted to keep the card CAS (just had no clue if I would succeed this time or not) I decided on some strong colors and picked some oranges and yellow out of my Copic collection. Since I needed to blend from dark to very light, I only added a tiny amount of each of the used colors to allow for room to actually blend. If you use too much of one color, you don’t really have enough room to go from dark to light, especially in a small image as this one.

You can see that I didn’t do anything fancy. I didn’t try to hint at petals or texture, I simply blended from light to dark, which is your most basic Copic technique – everyone can do it! And since it’s a piece of art, you have creative license to do with it whatever you wish – no reason to feel bad because you didn’t try to turn it into a museum-worthy masterpiece. Just have fun :)

Another tip: if you don’t have Copic paper which is bleed proof (meaning you don’t see the color on the flip side), no worries. Just cut a panel the same size as your card front, color on it, and then glue it to the front of your card. No one will know the difference, and technically it’s still a one layer card :)

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you got inspired!

Botanical Garden

Beautiful Day

Stamp Shammy SHC UK

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