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