Hello Birthday Girl

Hey stampers, Anni here!

It's VERY cold right now over here in Germany! I can't wait to spring to begin but the weather forecast isn't very promising: -10 centigrade amd snow coming.
So I had to include some spring feeling into my card. For this Mama Elephant's Botanic Hello is perfect. Love all these flowers and the sentiment comes along!

I stamped the image with an embossing ink onto a piece of watercolour cardstock and heat embossed it in white because I knew I wanted to use my ZIG Clean Colour Real Brush Pens. You know I have this thing with flowers and watercolours. And the ZIGs are so easy to use.

I always colour one petal at a time, leave it to dry working on another petal and coming back to the former petal to add another layer. I start at the area I want to be the darkest and then work my way up to the lighter areas. The letters I lfet white. When the whole piece was dry I added some shadows with a coloured pencils.

After I finished the colouring I started the fussy cutting. And I really fussy cut everything, not only the outer edge but also the tiny spaces in between the flowers, leaves and letters. I wasn't that bad because I find that the embossing makes the fussy cutting easier.

Then I adhered the image to a matching cardbase with dimensional adhesive and added some gems.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.

   

Mama Elephant Botanic Hello - watercolour and black card

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good week! It's Esther here with a card using Mama Elephant Botanic Hello. I fell in love with this stamp the first time I saw it, and I had a feeling it would look great in a whole range of styles.

Today I've gone for pretty floral watercolours using shades from my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens set of 60. I heat embossed the image in off-white, so the outlines wouldn't be too stark. After colouring the image and adding soft pale blue into the background bits I wouldn't be able to easily remove, I fussy cut the image.

I mounted the cut image onto a stitched rectangle of black card stock cut with the largest Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles. I then mounted that panel onto a heavy weight card base. I decided not to add either of the two sentiment strips that come in the set, but it has them if you want them, plus a set of two overlapping wonky stitched lines.

The great think about this stamp is that it will work really well with different colour palettes and mediums (watercolour, alcohol markers, coloured pencils - whatever you like to use) against all sorts of backgrounds. Before I settled on black, I tried the coloured image against lilac, dark blue, dark grey and chocolate brown panels, and they ALL looked fab. It gives a totally different look each time.

Thanks for stopping by!