French stamps and watercolour - Encore

Rebonjour

Ok, alors on s'amuse.  Still playing with watercolour paint.  Not only does the watercolour paint give vibrant colour on the special watercolour paper that CTMH sells, but also on shimmer trim ! Who knew?

For these two cards I used the same Close To My Heart French stamp set called Happy to Be Friends C1605F.  It is so versatile with sentiments that can be used for all sorts of occasions. This is a MUST have in everyone's stash.

     

To start, I cut pieces of 12x12 watercolour paper down to fit the card front.

For the rainbow card, I put water in the barrel of the brush and dipped bristles straight into the colour and painted stripes directly onto the dry paper starting with orange, yellow, green, blue and then purple, no blending, going for bold vibrant colour contrast.  I also painted the stripes on the silver shimmer trim. Once the paint was dry, I stamped the sentiments in black ink, peeled the backing of the shimmer trim and adhered it to the rainbow paper, matted in black and glued to the card base.

Vibrant Rainbow 

For the pastel card, I did a wet wash on the paper first close to the paper's edge, then chose colours similar in muted intensity. I let the paint stripes overlap a bit and blend into one another making for a smoother transition.  When paint was dry I ripped the edges all around pulling paper towards me to reveal the core. When the paint was dry, I adhered the painted paper to the black mat and to the card base.  C'est si simple.

Muted Pastel

I used the watercolour paints and the medium flat watercolour brush.

 

CTMH Products:

Card base and envelope: Daisy White X254
Mat: black cardstock: 1386
watercolour paper: Z3146
watercolour paints: Z3132
watercolour brush: medium flat Z3226
shimmer trim: silver Z1799
stamp set: Happy to Be Friends C1605F

à bientôt,
Dominique

French stamps and watercolour

Bonjour
I am so excited that Close To My Heart now sells a dozen stamp sets in French !!  I look forward to showing you some projects with them over the next few days.

I decided to make this sweet card and used the watercolours.

Carte en français (Close To My Heart)

Close To My Heart sells watercolour paper in sheets of 12 x 12. It is nice and smooth and gives nice results when stamping on it.  So I cut a piece down to fit the card front. Then I used the watercolour paints and the medium flat watercolour brush. I put water in the barrel, and applied a wet wash on the paper first before painting the colour from lightest to darkest pink.

Once the watercolour paint was dry, I stamped the sentiment and hearts using black ink.

Products:
Card base and envelope: Daisy White X254
Mat: black cardstock: 1386
watercolour paper: Z3146
watercolour paints: Z3132
watercolour brush: medium flat Z3226
stamp set: A1192F



à bientôt,
Dominique

ABC Blog Hop - T

 Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter "T". This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has chosen as their "T" element will be featured in their post.

If you came from Darlys Recker's Crafty Happy blog then you're on the right track!
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I thought of words starting with the letter "T", and came up with Trees, and Trio, so I chose to make a card using the new watercolour paper (Z3146), brushes (Z3188) and paint palette (Z3132) that CTMH now sells. 

I cut a piece of watercolour paper, stamped the tree image from the Always Grateful (C1559) three times with clear Versamark ink (Z819) and sprinkled the image with embossing powder and heated it.

When the piece cooled down, I used the large watercolour brush to use a "wet on wet" technique. The brush glides really well on this paper when it is already wet. First I dipped the brush into water, then using large brush strokes I started painting over the trees with medium blue at the top, followed by paler blue, then in the middle of the paper I used the yellowy green paint and then painted bottom section with a browny-green paint.

When my watercolour piece was dry, I mat it on Kraft cardstock (Z1375)  and adhered to the card base (X254).

TIP:
You can change up the card by choosing different paint colours, for example use orange and pinks for a sunset, or greys, dark blues and purple for a twilight sky.

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Your next stop on our Everything ABC'S blog hop is Linda Norman's blog, Scrappy Therapy. This is also the place to go in case you get lost along the way… or for a complete list of participants!

don't forget

Friends don't let friends craft alone.

à bientôt,
Dominique

ABC Blog Hop - S

 Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter S. This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has chosen as their "S" element will be featured in their post.

If you came from Darlys Recker's Crafty Happy blog then you're on the right track!
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I thought of words starting with the letter S, and came up with Sentiments, which made me think of  Sincere Sympathy, so I chose the large flower on the September Stamp of the Month called Paper Garden (S1509) to make a card.

 CTMH now sells watercolour paper (Z3146), brushes (Z3188) and paint palette (Z3132). So I decided to give it a try. Here is what I came up with.

Sincere Sympathy

I cut a piece of watercolour paper and stamped the large flower with clear Versamark ink (Z819) and sprinkled the image with embossing powder and heated it.

When it had cooled down, I used the large watercolour brush to use a "wet on wet" technique, so the background will be hazy and colours will blend. First I dipped the brush into water, then using large brush strokes I wet the top quarter of the paper.

Then I did a "flat wash",  dipping the tip of the brush bristles into purple watercolour and slathered the paint across that wet area using broad strokes. The brush glides really well on this paper when it is already wet.

I repeated the process with the next segment of paper with a lighter purple, then grey in the middle and a deep green at the bottom.

TIP:
If you find the colours get too bright or saturated for your project, just dip the brush in water and pass over the image and it softens the intensity of the shade. That's what I did when my stripes were a bit too obvious, I wanted a softer more muted ombre effect.

When my watercolour piece was dry, I double mat it on Daisy white cardstock (1385) and thistle cardstock (X5759)  and adhered to the card base (X254).  I added 3 little black gems (Z1734) to the bottom to help finish it off.

Simple enough, right?

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Your next stop on our Everything ABC'S blog Hop is Stephanie Feist's blog Quilted Scrapper.
In case you get lost along the way… go to Scrappy Therapy for a complete list of participants!


don't forget
Friends don't let friends craft alone.

à bientôt,
Dominique