Hello again… The other day I posted about the watercolor classes ~ and today I am following through with sharing a creation made using the emboss resist watercolor. It uses Fluid 100 Watercolor paper, re-inkers and a water painter… and of course VersaMark ink, White Embossing Powder and Heat Tool. 😁 Here’s the card…

Begin by stamping the image (Joyful Flurry!) with VersaMark ink on Fluid 100 Watercolor paper. I used my Stamparatus and did several stamps at the same time. It was easy & efficient at the same time. I sprinkled with White Embossing Powder then heat set with the Heat Tool. I added more snowflakes to cover the full page. I let this cool while cleaning the stamps, then created a wash with re-inkers and an acrylic block. I put one drop of each color re-inker: Pacific Point, Balmy Blue and Pool Party. I mixed them together with the widest of the Water Painters, then brushed this liberally over the embossed snowflakes. If I needed more water, I simply squeezed the Water Painter just a bit for a drop to come through. Once I covered the sheet of embossed Fluid 100 paper with color, I set it aside to dry. This is when I created the sentiment banner & did die cuts of snowflakes.

I stamped the sentiment on a Thick Basic White scrap with Night of Navy ink, then die cut it with this fun banner die from the Frosted Flurry Dies. I die cut two small snowflakes using more dies in the Frosted Flurries Dies and adhered them to the banner with dots of liquid glue. Iran Stampin’ Seal+ on the back of the banner and attached two ribbons to it: first the Glittered Organdy Ribbon in white, then the Metallic Woven Ribbon in starry Sky. I liked the way they looked together, put dimensionals on the back of the banner and added it to the now dry embossed & watercolored piece. I added Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels to the center of the two snowflakes and liked the look. I added aslightly larger piece of Starry Sky card stock to the back of the watercolored piece, put dimensionals on the back and attached it to a Thick Basic White card base. And the front was done…

On a Basic White panel I placed the snowflake die from Frosted Flurry Dies in the lower right corner. Notice it does not cut through the center… love the look… and because I did (love the look) I did the same in the upper left corner. I added a single Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels to the center of each snowflake. I attached this panel to a slightly larger piece of Starry Sky card stock then added it to the inside of the card. Finis!

For the envelope I stamped the sentiment from Joyful Flurry stamp set on the front of the envelope in Balmy Blue ink. I then ran the envelope through the Wintry 3D Embossing Folder using the snowflake image. (This embossing folder has two narrow folders in the set and it is perfect for this particular card!)

Good Sunday morning, oops… early afternoon! I’m a bit behind this morning… but I want to share with you the class I held this past Thursday ~ all about celebrating Stampin’ Up! and Watercoloring Month. In preparing for the class I used mostly the Cottage Rose stamp set and incorporated only Joyful Flurry stamp set for the embossing technique. I have yet to put the samples into cards and hope to do that soon, but I did want to share the samples before forgetting.

Here’s #1 ~ the no-line watercoloring on Fluid 100 Watercolor paper and using the water painters & Cottage Rose. Inks were Polished Pink, Mint Macaron, Old Olive, Pale Papaya, So Saffron and the rose was stamped in Sahara Sand.

The trick in each case is not to use too much water… :O) This phrase will be repeated a LOT.

• stamp the design, get ink in the lid, add a bit of water from the water painter, dab into the color, tap off on grid paper, then color

I really enjoyed this technique, but it does take practice (as does everything!) to not use too much water.

This technique has a much softer look but I enjoyed doing this also.

• stamp the image in STAZON ink on Shimmery White card stock, color image with watercolor pencils, then use a water painter to smooth the lines.

This sounds simple enough but again the trick is not to use too much water. I find coloring relaxing so enjoyed this process.

#3 is the watercolor wash technique which is the background for this image. It barely shows, but is Sahara Sand.

• get ink in top of ink pad, water card stock with widest painter, add color as desired, let dry

This wash could have been darker but I didn’t want it to overpower the image that would be stamped once dry.

On my goodness… this faux watercoloring was so e-a-s-y; done on Fluid 100 watercolor paper with whatever ink of choice. I chose Old Olive and the leaf is from the Cottage Rose stamp set.

• stamp image with ink of choice, use water painter to spread color in the image… ink bleeds in the image. Again, be careful not to use too much water. Super quick & easy process.

This process again uses Fluid 100 watercolor paper and embossing powder of choice & re-inkers. The rose is embossed with clear embossing powder and I did not like the look, so didn’t finish coloring the image. The snowflake with shades of blue watercoloring is embossed in white embossing powder and the contrast is super. The upper image is also embossed in white embossing powder but soft shades of Pale Papaya & So Saffron were used – not enough contrast so the image does not show as well. I will probably create another with shades of blue to show off this technique.

• stamp image w/ VersaMark ink, sprinkle w/ embossing powder & heat set. With re-inkers, place drop or two of the liquid on an acrylic block & w/ the widest water painter, create a wash of color over the stamped & embossed image. Clean brush between ink colors.

Shimmer White card stock is used w/ the pastel chalks & of course the water painters. You can clearly see the line of chalks marked on the top Shimmery White to the left. I simply scribbled several lines for the colors I wanted to use.

• stamp image in STAZON ink, make a line w/ each color of pastel you will use, use the finest tip water painter to get color from the pastel to color the image, clean brush between colors.

I thoroughly enjoyed this technique but again, was careful not to use too much water. I will need to add more color to the tiny flowers (I’m calling them statis) as it doesn’t contrast enough for my taste.

This is the last of the techniques used in the Stampin’ Up! watercolor video. It is called Embossing folder watercoloring technique and uses Fluid 100 watercolor paper. You can clearly see variations in the Polished Pink and the old Olive inks used here. The more ink on the painter, the darker it will paint. I actually went over each flower or leaf more than once to add more color. I found this fun but a bit tedious. The raised areas are fairly small and therefore I had to be very careful to only color the raised areas.

• emboss the Fluid 100 Watercolor paper (Pretty F
  lowers Embossing Folder), get ink in lid of ink pad, dip water painter in ink lid and loosely color the raised images.

This was the only technique I have made into a card! I do have full intention of making cards with the other watercolor techniques though – so stay tuned for a later post of those creations. Are you able to see clearly the differences in the techniques? I’m hoping I was able to share that fairly well. But, let me know! Our class really enjoyed this learning process, and some did better than others, as is expected. It simply takes practice to learn how much water to use for various techniques ~ and giving variety in shading helps tremendously. I think you can see that in each of the photos.

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