I saw Shari's latest video on Hero Arts blog for water colouring using distress inks and that immediately rekindled my love for it. Sometimes we are just too busy trying out so many techniques out there, that we often forgot the ones we used to love.
On this card I stamped the leaves on a piece of vellum and then coloured it with my aqua brush and distress inks. Then it was diecut with Tim Holtz label die. I thought it would look good layered on a piece of patterned paper but I couldn't figure out how to do it without adhesive showing through.
I finally decided on stitching, which I think was a stupid thing to do. Especially when the paper was odd shaped like this! Just please don't try to zoom in and look at my stitching ok?
Supplies: Hero Arts Real Leaves Stamp CL457, HA Happy definition stamp CG269, HA Sending Smiles sentiment CL490, Tim Holtz label diecut, HA wildflowers stamp, Distress inkpad in Tumbled glass, Broken China, Shabby Shutters, MME polka dot pattern paper, Memento in Tuxedo Black and Rich Cocoa, molded Sculpey clay rose
And the flowers at the bottom left? It's from one of my failed experiments. I was playing around with water colour stamping, and didn't like the end result, but I decided to still fussy cut the flowers out and kept them. In moments like this I'm glad I kept those scraps.
The pink/white flower was made using a mold I got from moldmuse on etsy. I really have to share this embarassing experience I had with this oven-baked clay. The packaging says that the clay has to be baked at about 275 °F. Not realising that my oven settings were actually in Celcius, I baked my roses at 275°C instead of 130°C. I walked away for less than 5 minutes and came back to see some noxious fumes coming out of my oven. No fire, but imagine my horror! I turned off the oven immediately and removed those roses.
These were supposed to be pink & white. Just look at their colour now after they have cooled down. I guess its not too bad, I could still salvage them and pretend that they were originally brown anyway, LOL. I'm sure they'll look good on vintage cards. The one on this card is from a new batch that I've baked using the CORRECT temperature.
Thanks for reading this long post all the way to the end....and I hope you like my card!
I'm submitting this to Hero Arts June Challenge and Wee Memories Scrappy Saturday Challenge #59 - Anything Goes
8 lasting footprints:
ha..ha..what a C & F blunder...!! Lucky everything is safe and sound. The baked flowers look beautiful though...
Beautiful colouring on vellum...something I dare not tackle yet.
woah ! great stitching & watercolouring techniques ! the card turned out beautifully!!
hmmm...I actually love your stitching on your card..and oh my about your baking experience....
Gorgeous card! And I am a HUGE MoldMuse fan. Thanks for sharing your fun baking experiences. Sounds exactly like something I would do too! Thanks for joining us at Wee Memories!
The roses still look pretty good, considering! LOL!! I would have never known otherwise.
The stitching on that card is PERFECT, WOW!
In answer to your question, I did a gassy gramps last week. He's for sale over at Squigglefly now.
HI Shirl, not to worry your roses still looks good...yes, you can use it for vintage style...and about stitching , you did so well...nothing wrong in this card at all, it's just an art!
wowee!! awesome card gurl! :)
Would never have know you didn't intend for the roses to turn out that way. They look wonderful for vintage projects.
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