Welcome back to day three of the Clearly Besotted February release teasers. We hope you are enjoying the sets so far. Today my card features two of the sets that are designed to be used together – Clearly Contained and Clearly Contained Cuts. I do think that some of the images from the Clearly Contained Cuts set can be used on their own though, for instance to create a background of leaves, which would look really pretty.
Here is today’s card, and I know you might be thinking this took about 5 minutes, but trust me it was the card that took me the longest this month! Boy oh boy, this one didn’t want to come together at first!
I knew from the start that I wanted the vase and flowers to be the focal point of the card but my plan was to do a lovely dreamy watercolor wash behind it. I always planned to leave the vase and flowers white so my wash behind the flowers needed to be quite vibrant to show them off. Well, I must have done about 6 different panels of watercolour and hated every single one! Some were blues and greens, and others were pink/yellow and orange. I seem to have forgotten how to use watercolor and they all just looked so wrong and muddy and just awful! I may keep them and die cut images from them so they are not wasted at least. After a painstaking hour or so, I gave up trying and went to bed in a huff haha! But in one of my many hours of not sleeping, I thought about creating the panel with ink smooshing instead.
So with trepidation, I set off to the craft room the next morning and got out YET ANOTHER Tim Holtz Watercolor Cardstock panel and selected Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey Distress Inks. I applied them down onto the TH Glass Media Mat, used my Distress Sprayer to add some water and then grabbed a piece of acetate. I picked up the first colour with the acetate and transferred it onto the panel into different areas here and there. The same with the second and third colours. I then heat set it and applied some more ink over the top and left it to dry.
Whilst that was drying, I stamped the vase from Clearly Contained onto a piece of white cardstock, created a mask and then stamped the flower image from Clearly Contained Cuts. I fussy cut the image out and then added it onto my smooshed panel using foam tape.
The sentiment is from Tiny Type and this was stamped onto black cardstock using Versamark Ink. I applied white detail embossing powder and heat set before trimming it with a SSS Sentiment Label die. This was also added with foam tape and the whole panel was adhered with double sided tape onto a top folding base card. A few Iridescent Jewels from Lucy’s cards were added for embellishment.
The moral of the story here is not to persevere but to give up entirely and find another plan! I did like the card in the end and it was a good reminder to do smooshing which I had not done in absolutely ages! Plus I think it may be the first time I actually left a floral image white. A better moral of the story might be that sometimes it’s good to change things up a little! Let’s go with that one.
I hope you will have time to head over to the Clearly Besotted Blog, Keren and Michelle, as well as our two guest designers, Rina and Mindy. We also have returning guest Francine with us today, which is always a treat. I will be back tomorrow with my final teaser for you. Don’t forget the sets go live at 8pm GMT on 5th February. Until tomorrow, happy crafting!
Ruth says
Perseverance, you have that in bucket loads! Love the fact you’ve left the main image blank. It really makes it stand out. Love the colours!
Andrea Megan Hastilow says
The end result was so worth all the effort it took, it’s stunning. Like the mix of white case to coloured backdrop. Stay safe & healthy x
Keren Baker says
I love this! What a fabulous idea (& saves on colouring time too!!). Really impactful with the splash of colour!! Xx
Michelle Short says
I’m sorry that it was such a long process, Lisa but I’m glad you persevered with the idea and changed up the technique and got there in the end! The result is beautiful! I love the vase and flowers being white with the vibrant pop of colour behind xx