Monday, July 22, 2013

Christmas in July - Birthday Celebration Challenge #3

Continuing with the Birthday Celebrations at Flourishes, here is Challenge #3 - make a Christmas creation. I have been having fun lately working with re-inkers and watercolour paper, so that's how I started this challenge off.



I stamped the largest image from the Poinsettia and Pine stamp set onto three pieces of watercolour paper with Versamark ink. I heat embossed all three with gold embossing powder. 

Next I spritzed one of the images with water and watercoloured the flower petals of the image using a paint brush and three shades of pink/rose re-inker. This is similar to what I did for a previous card, however on this card the placement of re-inker was much more controlled and contained within the embossing. (I think this is similar to what some people call the floating re-inker technique, however that is done with glossy CS and a water brush). I repeated the above with the second embossed image and on the third embossed image I coloured everything but the flower petals (I had to colour the pine boughs using a water based dye marker since the water colour technique would not work on these sections because the spaces between the embossing were too small) - this became my base for layering the flower petals. 

The hardest part about this technique is waiting for the paper to dry. After everything was dry I fussy cut the image from the third piece, this became the base of my flower. I then cut around the Poinsettia only from one of the other two images and from the last piece I cut only a few of the flower petals to add dimension to my flower. Then I layered everything using glue and 3D foam.

I created my own gold pearls by pressing a sheet of little pearls into my versamark pad and embossing them with gold EP. I did some larger pearls as well, but this gets more difficult the larger the pearls. I did the same thing with the edges of my Romantic Rectangles diecut.

Supplies: Standard A2 size
Stamps - Poinsettia & Pine (Flourishes)
Ink - VersaMark, Gold EP, Re-inkers - Garden Green, Topiary, Gypsy, Juniper, Twilight, Blush, Cotton Candy, Tulip; Hollyhock marker, Ponderosa Pine marker (CTMH)
Paper - DP- Christmas Cottage (Teresa Collins), Classic Ivory CS (Flourishes), watercolour paper
Accessories - pearls (CTMH)
Other - Romantic Rectangles Die (Spellbinders), spray bottle, paint brush, 3D foam


3 comments:

  1. What... You created your own gold pearls, now that is AWESOME! I love that you embossed the poinsettia as well. This is BEAUTIFUL! Thanks for playing in Flourishes Christmas Challenge!

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  2. Beautiful Ms. Connie and how fun that you decided to embellish your embellishments! ;-) Fabulous creation!

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  3. I love the effect you created on your pointsettia! Gorgeous. A what a wonderful tip to turn the pearls gold!!

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