It's Tuesday which means that you've got Kathi here to share a project with you! It's an "Anything Goes" week so I decided to create a summery birthday card with the Good Things Take Time Clear Stamp Set TE60 and the Flower Power Clear Stamp Set TE37 — both by Tracy Evans Boutique, the Leaf Green and Ultramarine Brusho Crystal Colors by Colourcraft, and the Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangle Die Set by CREAlies.
Here it is!
I wanted the flower stems to be green so I decided to use the 'no lines' coloring technique. The lilies from the Good Things Take Time Clear Stamp Set TE60 by Tracy Evans Boutique were stamped with Copic-friendly yellow ink onto a panel of Bristol Paper. Heat set the ink.
My neighbors have beautiful red/orange lilies, so I used red and orange Copic markers to color the lilies and green Copic markers to color the stems. My colors got a bit over-saturated, but I was mostly pleased with the result.
A small amount of Leaf Green and Ultramarine Brusho Crystal Colors by Colourcraft were sprinkled into wells of a color palette. Water was added to the Crystal Colors to dilute them. A wet paint brush was used to dampen the paper around the stems, then the Leaf Green Crystal Color was brushed onto the bottom section of the panel on a slant.
A wet paint brush was used to dampen the paper around the flowers and stems on the top part of the image panel. Ultramarine Brusho Crystal Color was painted onto the image panel.
The colors were looking a bit streaky, so a wad of cotton was wet with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol, then pounced onto the background avoiding the Copic colored images. A cotton swab was dipped into the alcohol and pounced onto the areas closest to the images. The alcohol mottled the background and brought out some of the other colors in the crystals. Fun!
Water-color brush pens were used to add detail to the lawn and to the flowers. I decided to pounce the alcohol-saturated cotton onto the image panel again which softened some of watercolors.
The image panel was throroughly heat set, then cut with the third largest die from the Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Double Stitched Rectangle Die Set by CREAlies.
The "Sending Heartfelt Wishes..." sentiment stamp from the Flower Power Clear Stamp Set TE37 by Tracy Evans Boutique was positioned facedown on the top left of the image panel die-cut. Melon Soda VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko was used to ink the sentiment, which was then stamped and heat-set.
Black glitter pen was used to outline the stamens of the flowers and add a slight dimensional touch.
The image panel die-cut was matted with black metallic cardstock that was trimmed to be 1/8" larger than the die-cut.
The matted image panel was adhered to a white textured A6 card.
Please pop over to my blog, Kat's Tales of Stamping, for step-by-step instructions, notes, and complete supply lists.
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