Hello again
Today is the second day of the countdown teasers for the February release from Clearly Besotted. I have a floral card for you using the main image from the Blossoms in Bloom set. This is another larger set and I decided to do a little watercolouring for this pretty image.
And for regular readers, you will know that I have been having a phase of making shakers as I am trying to use up my hoards of sequins! I say phase. but in reality it’s about 3 cards, but that counts, right!? So I thought I would incorporate a shaker into today’s card. My normal process is to do my colouring first, so I went ahead and stamped the image with Versafine ink onto Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock.
I thought I would show you where my colour inspiration came from. On the Simon Says Stamp blog many moons ago, I spotted this post containing Distress Ink Recipe cards. I diligently printed them off, trimmed them down and I keep them with my Distress Ink swatches for when I want some inspiration. Today, I used the 4 inks from Distress Recipe 7 to color my image. I think this is a beautiful colour combination.
I only used those four ink colours and did 2 or 3 layers to get some depth and variation here and there on the image. But I wanted the colours to stay fairly muted. After I had watercoloured, I fussy cut the image, but there are coordinating dies available. This was then set to one side whilst I worked on the shaker portion of the card.
I won’t go into details here as you all know how shakers work by now, but I thought the floral image would sit beautifully around a circle so I created a circle aperture and shaker element behind. The sequins are a mix from Lucy’s Cards called Coconut Ice (so pretty, I love her mixes and need to make space for some more)! Haha! I can hear you all screaming at me “but you don’t like making shakers why do you need more?!!!”
After I had made the shaker and attached it all to my base, I held my breath to check it and then adhered the image on top. I stamped the greeting from Clearly Besotted Miniature Type onto some Neenah cardstock, trimmed it down and popped it on with foam tape. And that finished my card. Shakers take me a long time to make, but I do love them at the end.
Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you will head over to see what Stephanie, Michelle and Keren have created for the release, I’m looking forward to seeing their cards. I will be back tomorrow with the third teaser for you. Happy crafting!
Ruth says
You crack me up Lisa with your posts! This is stunning. Honestly you do not realise just how talented you are with your floral cards. There’s just this simple beauty in the watercolouring. They are just stunning! And well done you for making more shakers. I have loads of mixes I haven’t used!! I need a phase too! xx