Category: Water Colouring

I have always loved the ways we can use the English language in so many creative ways. It was so much fun teaching my high school English students different literary devices and techniques to achieve more expressive effects.

Two of my favourites are ALLITERATION and WORDPLAY. You can both of these in today’s title. The first it obvious but the second will reveal itself very quickly.

Today, I am sharing a card using RESIST EMBOSSING with some very simple water colouring.

If you have been following along, you will know that this week I am featuring the Flowering Fields Suite Collection.

For this card I have used the Flowering Tulips Bundle and Flowering Fields Designer Series Paper.

I used the Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper, Water Painters and the Fresh Freesia and Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin’ Pads as the basis for water colouring flowers for the card.

I started by stamping the floral images onto the water colour paper using Versamark and then adding Clear Embossing Powder. This was then set using the Heat Tool.

Then I used my Water Painters to add water directly to the paper and then to add colour to the images.

The heat embossed clear embossing powder ‘stays’ white after the water colouring has been completed. When the paper is dry, each of the three different flowers were then cut using the outline dies from the Tulip Dies set.

Then I gently scrunched the flowers to give them some shape and texture.

The card base is Rich Razzleberry and I chose this piece of Designer Series Paper for the next layer of the card. Before this DSP layer was adhered to the card front, I added the checked Pear Pizzazz DSP piece . This piece features the geometric small squares die cut effect. Then I used a length of 1/2″ white Faux Linen Ribbon, from the Flowers for Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack, to tie a bow and wrap it around the DSP layers. The ribbon was secured behind this DSP using Tean & Tape.

The DSP and ribbon layers were then adhered to the card front.

Then I worked on creating these cascading flowers, using Multipurpose Glue and Stampin’ Dimensionals. I die cut three small leaves from a scrap of Pear Pizzazz cardstock and gently crunched them. With some Multipurpose Glue added to the base of each leaf, I tucked them in behind the flowers.

I used the ‘thank you’ sentiment, from the Flowering Tulips Stamp Set, to stamp on to the same piece of Pear Pizzazz DSP in Rich Razzleberry. This was then cut using one of the Layering Circles Dies. Stampin’ Dimensionals were placed on the back of the sentiment circle and then popped up on the card front. This is such a gorgeous sentiment – I love the way the two fonts work so well together, as well as the ‘logo style’ it has been styled.

The card insert and the back flap of the envelope both had some of the Pear Pizzazz DSP attached to create a coordinated and complete look to this card.

NOTE TO SELF – when I look back at the card, I think I should have lightened the colour in the centre of the flowers. What do you think? I would love your feedback!

Tomorrow is Welcome to Wednesay and this is the day that I will share projects that I have created for blog hops and challenges. I make a project each week for the Global Design Project challenge and will soon start sharing a project for the Freshly Brewed Projects Blog Hop.

Until the, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Flowering Tulips Bundle (English) [157678] $91.75	Flowering Fields 12” X 12” (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [157670] $20.00	Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack [153620] $17.50	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $58.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00
Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz [131290] $15.25	Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock [119981] $15.25	Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad [155611] $13.00	Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [147091] $13.00	Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper [149612] $15.75
Versamark Pad [102283] $16.50	Water Painters [151298] $21.00	Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $31.00	Heat Tool [129056] $50.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $8.00	Tear & Tape Adhesive [154031] $12.25	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00	Paper Snips [103579] $17.00
Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00	Basic White C6 Envelopes [159235] $13.00