Surprise! It's me! I was invited to join in the monthly challenge at a2z Scrapbooking, Sparkle and Shine, which is right up my alley, so of course I said yes!
You can head over to a2z Scrapbooking to see more details on how I made this and to find out how to enter the monthly challenge or buy some of the supplies I used! Happy Thursday! Chark
Jennifer McGuire did a video where she used foil as a background for a die, without actually foiling. I loved the look so I tried it with this Leaf Medallion die from Altenew, rainbow foil from Decofoil and a sentiment die from Stamplorations.
I also used a thin piece of double-sided tape at the bottom and actually foiled it with the same foil. It really sticks well to tape. Here's a close-up. So, if you don't have a laminating machine, you can still use the gorgeous foils out there for your cardmaking. You can check out Jennifer's video here that inspired me.
I watercolored the lettered and doodled page I made and posted here with the Gasai Tambi Pearlized paints...they are beautiful and shimmery. Even the white, which I assumed wouldn't be very pigmented is lovely. They will color over dark paper and letters though, so when I added some blue background by just painting over the whole thing, some of the black lines and letters were affected.
I still like how it turned out and my next thing will be to try them on a black paper project :) You can see how the light reflected the mica in the paint on the lower right corner. Here's a close-up to show the shimmer.
Here's a link to Jennifer McGuire's lovely work with these watercolors...that woman can make me buy anything!!
And, because today was my son's first day back to school as A SENIOR, I have to post his pic. He let me take two before it was time to quit :)
Visiting the Peony Bouquet stamp again in this post. You gotta admit, it's a good one. It comes with outline stamps, which are great for coloring and then you get the layered stamps too, you get blossoms, leaves and berries. What more could you want? This one uses the outline stamp and then I watercolored with Tombows.
For this, I stamped the outline in Distress Inks so that when I used the Tombow markers and water, the outline would become part of the paint. I added white Uniball white pen for some highlights.
I love how the Altenew floral color layering stamps make me feel like an artist!
Next, I want to try color layering stamps with one color, like in this Jennifer McGuire's video. Seriously, this woman is crazy talented...idea after idea and her technical skills in creating makes her a rock star.
I'm slightly obsessed with this Antique Rose stamp from Hero Arts, it's so fun to color. It's shaded so it takes very little to make it look fabulous.
Here I just used Distress Inks as watercolors, Squeezed Lemonade and Barn Door.
This version is watercolored with Barn Door and Picked Raspberry. But after it dried, I added some white pen and then some Prismacolor pencils and a black pen.
Here's a video from the incomparable Jennifer McGuire about how she colored on top of inked images, instead of watercolored images, and she does a beautiful job as always. Thanks for the inspiration, Jennifer!
You can get the stamp at a2z Scrapbooking if you're enamored of it like me! And if you use CHARK15 as your coupon code, you can get 15% off your cart when you spend $25 or more before shipping. Happy Friday! Chark
