One of my fave techniques is faux watercoloring -- color with water-based makers directly on the rubber, spritz with water, stamp, and you look like you know what you are doing. Rubbernecker Stamps has a whole line of stamps designed for just this technique, including these lovely two-step poppies here. The sentiment is from an old SU set. The markers were Distress markers, but any water-based maker will do, including the cheap ones your kids use.
I went technique heavy on this one, as I also dry embossed the green base layer and sanded the embossed layer. It's Coredinations paper, so I got a nice, slightly lighter shade of green that highlights the embossing.
The layout is Sketch Saturday's current sketch, #324, and I liked that I could use a doily for the circular element on it.
I'm entering this card in these challenges:
Sketch Saturday #324, sketch
Sister Act #71, Anything Goes
Crafty Girls #25, Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #146, Anything Goes
Inky Impressions #172, Anything Goes
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Gorgeous card..thanks for joining us at Sister Act Card Challenge..Sue DT x
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful flowers, Sandy. Great use of the faux watercolor technique. Thanks for playing with us at Sketch Saturday. Cathy xx
ReplyDeleteOh - what pretty poppies! LOVE them!!!
ReplyDeleteLove this technique . . .you have perfected it. xxx
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