Hello! Welcome back to my blog. The month of July is almost over. I am thankful for this month for a lot of reasons. One of which is I became a part of the Altenew's July Release Blog Hop. Some of my cards are featured on Altenew's shop, online catalogue and social media sites. It is such an honor.
Today's card features products from this month's release which are currently out of stock. Just click the 'notify me' button at the Altenew website to be informed once these products are back in stock if you are interested in purchasing it.
The colors I used are inspired by this month's Altenew Inspiration Challenge.
I stamped the flower from the Altenew Build-A-Garden Sulfur Cosmos stamp set to a watercolor cardstock. I stamped it twice to fill a 6" x 4 1/2" panel. I used Versafine Onyx Black ink for the stamping. I dried the ink using a heat gun before doing the ink smooshing.
I am using Karin markers for coloring. I used the Neon Yellow, Neon Yellow-Orange and Neon Pink. I applied the pigment to a palette and spritz it with water to dilute the ink. Using a flat brush, I applied water to the stamped panel. This will help mute the color. I picked the ink using a scrap piece of acetate. I transferred the color to the stamped panel by pouncing the acetate to the stamped panel. I heat set in between inking to dry the ink. I repeated this process until I am happy with the coloring of the panel. There are a lot of advantages in using this technique. You can select which area of your project to pounce the ink on. You can also create new colors when the two colors of ink mix while it is still wet. And you can intensify the color by pouncing the acetate with the ink on an area again.
I have a stash of watercolor paper strips from cutting the watercolor paper to 8 1/2" x 11" since most watercolor papers come in 9" x 12". To make use of these watercolor paper strips, I colored a row of sentiments on the debossed side of the Altenew Raised Sentiments 3D Embossing Folder. I used the same colors I used on the smooshed panel. I positioned the watercolor paper strip over this inked portion of the embossing folder, then run it through my Sizzix Big Shot machine. With this technique, the color from the embossing folder transferred to the strip while giving an embossed impression on the paper strip as well. The embossed letters remained white in color.
The ink on the embossing folder can be wiped off with a baby wipe or with a Hero Arts Ultra Clean Spray if the ink won't come off with the baby wipe.
I trimmed the strips narrower using a craft knife to make it into quarter inch sentiment strips.
I cut the floral panel at 1 3/4". I built the panel by adhering the sentiment strip on a paper cut at 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". You can adhere the strips straight onto a notecard but I like doing it on scrap paper first.
I adhered this strip to the top most edge of the paper. I adhered the floral strip next, then repeated the process until the paper is covered with the sentiment strips and the floral panels. I trimmed off any excess.
I adhered this to a top folding A2 note card.
Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you like today's project. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!
Maria Giselle B.
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