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Beautiful Blooms!
3/25/2016 | 
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This card was made using the Beautiful Blooms Card Kit from My Favorite Things.
To make this card I began by painting a watercolor wash background on
Strathmore Cold Press Watercolor Paper using Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors. I die cut the wreath elements and then stamped them with the dye inks and paper included with kit.
Strathmore Cold Press Watercolor Paper using Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors. I die cut the wreath elements and then stamped them with the dye inks and paper included with kit.
I love the tranquil and soothing colors, variety of patterned paper and quality cardstock included in this kit. Adding the included sequins gave the card sparkle and light. This was the first kit I purchased from My Favorite Things and I enjoyed working with it. Everything I needed to make a variety of projects was included with the kit.
Postcard
When I first opened the Beautiful Blooms Card Kit, I wasn't sure where to begin, so I copied one of the designs from the cover page before beginning the wreath card. After trying the stamps, I placed the card front in front of me along with the kit cover page and began making the wreath card shown above.
As I looked at the card front made from the kit sample I challenged myself to broaden the design already stamped and to make something slightly different than a regular greeting card. My brother and sister-in-law's family vacation actually served as the inspiration for this postcard! Thinking about vacation postcards, I quickly remembered buying premade postcards from Canvas Corp. printed on kraft paper and ran over to my premade card drawer and found them! Searching through my stamp collection, an idea came together and I sat down and had fun playing around with many of my new art supplies.
My Favorite Things Premium Dye Ink and Ranger Ink Distress Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint made my experience ecstatic!!!! Those crayons are fabulous! and so much fun to work with! I used regular paintbrushes and my natural paint brushes ( fingers !) to achieve the effect I desired.
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Labels:
Beautiful Blooms Card Kit,
Distress Crackle Paint,
Distress Crayons,
Distress Ink,
Hero Arts,
My Favorite Things,
My Favorite Things Premium Dye Ink,
Strathmore Watercolor Paper
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Background Check Class, Day 1
Watercolor Smooshing with water droplets technique taught by Kristina Werner using Distress Inks and Koi Watercolors by Sakura of America and Strathmore Watercolor Paper.
The effects from using this technique are really pretty and range from soft to as bold as you would like depending on the amount of ink or paint used. I used a piece of acetate from some stamps I purchased to apply the ink as well as the watercolors , deepening one sample with a brush. The droplets were made by spraying some water in the palm of my hand and letting it carefully drop to the paper where it removed some of the ink or watercolor as it was dabbed with a cloth or paper towel.
Labels:
Background Check Class,
Distress Ink,
Koi Watercolors,
Sakura of America,
Smooshing technique using acetate,
Strathmore Watercolor Paper,
water droplets
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Background Check Class
This was the first video in class, and after watching nearly all of the class instruction I was finally able to walk downstairs and get started this weekend. Water bottle and iPad in hand, had lots of anticipation as I got out all my stuff.
Labels:
Background Check Class,
Distress Ink,
Ranger Ink Blending Tool,
Strathmore Watercolor Paper
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