Sunday, June 20, 2021

Squashing it using water color

 Happy Father's Day to all Dad's, both still with us
and in Heaven!

It's a lazy day here at Chez Dring. The hubs is
catching up on his Z's, so I decided to make a card
whilst he snoozes. LOL!
 

 and the inside:

I'm playing along with the current Let's Squash It challenge #9.
The prompt is to use both a nature themed embossing folder
along with water coloring of some kind. I dug in my box-o-embossing-folders
and rediscovered this Leafy Branch EF by Cuttlebug. I started by
rubbing Peacock Feathers DI directly onto the EF, giving it a good
spritzing of water, then ran the water color panel through my
Grand Calibur. I let that dry then smooshed some Fossilized Amber DI
onto my craft mat, and using a water brush, gave the embossed image
some shading. I wanted the panel to be the star of the show, so I heat embossed
a simple sentiment in gold onto a strip of black card stock, adhered, and added
a smattering of rhinestones to finish it off. 

This was a lot of fun to do, and I want to experiment with other embossing
folders now. LOL! Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful day!




Supplies:
Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips Background, In & Out Birthday
Ink: Ranger DI - Peacock Feathers, Fossilized Amber; Versamark; Memento - Tuxedo Black
CS: Strathmore water color paper; TE
Accessories: GC; Cuttlebug - Leafy Branch EF (37-1168), water brush, MISTI; Stampendous - detail gold EP; heat gun; Recollections - rhinestones
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Recollections - tacky tape

7 comments:

  1. So happy to see you join the fun at Let's Squash It! Chris. Your card is a total stunner and I love the colours and EF you've chosen, Jo x

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  2. Beautiful card, great colours and awesome use of the EF.

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  3. There is nothing sleepy about your card...lol. The inside sentiment is spot on! TFS.

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  4. Lovely effect with the embossing and the Fossilized Amber was the perfect choice with the Peacock Feathers - a beautiful combo!

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  5. Gorgeous card. Love the embossing folder you used and the way you coloured then added shading. Very pretty. Thanks for joining the fun at Let's Squash It! Hugz

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  6. Congrats on being a top pick at Let's Squash It, Chris - love how you colored the embossed leafy branch!!

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