Sara Naumann Valentines with PaperArtsy Infusions

Happy Monday friends!  It's Autumn Clark from SewPaperPaint with you to share some quick and easy mixed media Valentine cards.

I've been having a good 'ole time playing with my PaperArtsy Infusions powders.  I wanted to try them with an embossing resist.  I chose one of Seth Apter's mini stamps, EM41, for my background, stamping it three times across my card to make a stripe.  I clear embossed it three times to get a nice chunky texture so my Infusions would have a spot to pool.

I always spritz my panels with water before adding my Infusions powders so they have somewhere to stick.  I used Magenta first.  I let the color bleed and sprayed with more water, moving the powder with my finger tips (you can use a brush if you like) until I achieved the desired effect.  Next I added Terracotta and let the color bleed toward the Magenta, leaving some light space in the middle.

For my first card, I decided to stamp the large bird from Sara's ESN34 stamp set in black gesso.  I thought the gesso would work well over the embossing and I prefer a matte black image to a glossy black embossing.  I used my stamp platform and applied the gesso with a foam wedge, stamping two or three times until I achieved the desired coverage (then cleaning my stamp immediately).  When the image was dry, I added highlights with a white Uniball pen.  I inked the edges of my panel with Versafine Onyx Black.

For my next card, I simply made a random background with Magenta and Terracotta Infusions, completely covering a sheet of watercolor paper.  When my panel was dried, I used texture paste through Sara's stencil PS092.  I let the stencil paste air dry overnight, knowing it would pull the pigment and tint the paste as it dried.  I squealed when I awoke and saw it!  :)

I wanted to add another bold focal image to this card, but didn't want to cover the glorious background, so I stamped the butterfly row from Sara's ESN33 stamp set, again in black gesso, but this time onto a piece of torn vellum.  I stitched the vellum to my background.  Both sentiments are stickers, highlighted with watered black ink.  The hearts were cut from the rest of the sheet of inky background paper I made for this card.

I hope you've enjoyed seeing Infusions powders in action today and will try making some Infused backgrounds of your own.  Hugs, Autumn

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