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| "Faux Watercolor" Card |
Hello everyone!! So...how much shopping did you guys do over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend? A lot? A little? None? I was very good and only bought some stamps from Unity Stamp Co. They were giving 60% everything. And I got a bunch of new stencils from StencilGirlProducts because I am in need of new stencils and they had a great sale!! Cannot wait to get my hands on these stamps and stencils. Other than that, I was a good boy!! Tell me what bargains you got!!
This week over at Stamp Ink Paper they are having a card maker's choice challenge and I am going to enter one of my "faux watercolor" cards, which I did last week. It's their 25th week and you have until Sunday to enter a card of your choice into the challenge too. Just click HERE to be taken to the challenge post.
So, what is a "faux watercolored" card? Glad you asked. LOL. Honestly, I came up with this name when I found this "faux watercolor" paper called Shine from Pink Paislee in my stash.
I love how the paper has already been watercolored for me. No need to pull out the paints, the brush, the H2O. Just cut! Which is how I started the cards - I did 4. I cut 4 pieces at 4" x 5.25" trying to get most of the faux watercolor on each piece.
Then I grabbed my Versafine Black ink pad and stamped up two images from the Palettini Line at Technique Junkies - Dust or Magic (PD001) and Life is a Canvas (PD004).
Two of the cards I stamped the image in the center of the 4" pieces, then layered on a piece of black cardstock (4 1/8" x 5 3/8"), under which I adhered a piece of fun foam, which I then adhered to the card from. Final step was to adhere some sequins to the card front. Done!!
Here is the other card I did with the plain front.
And here are the other two cards. For these, the only difference is that I die cut the watercolor piece with the scallop die from the Die-namics Blueprints 1 from My Favorite Things, and then I stamped the phrase. Then I used the same scallop die on a piece of fun foam, adhered this to the watercolor piece, popped some brads into the corners and adhered to the card front.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this post. There are so many companies making papers like this recently and I hope you can find some and make some quick "faux watercolor" cards!!
Please...leave me a comment and tell me which one you like the best!! Until next time...
Hugs from Brasil -
Michael
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Yay, a card in the gallery from Michael! Love those sentiments, they are great words to live by. Love your backgrounds, too.
ReplyDeleteLOL Sandy!! I do come out from under my rock once in a while. Glad you like the cards.
DeleteLove all of your cards, the faux watercolor paper and the quotes used to enhance my brain power. tfs
ReplyDeleteHi Lois. Thanks for stopping by the blog. Glad you like. Very easy to make!
DeletePretty cards!! The soft colors are lovely. Love the sentiments you chose. Thanks for posting!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa. Was fun to play along.
DeleteBeautiful cards Michael!! Love the faux watercolor paper! I scooped up a bunch of stamps online for Black Friday. Thanks so much for joining us this week at Stamp Ink Paper :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Gin! Glad to have played along. Thanks for stopping by the blog.
DeleteI totally thought you had watercolored the background in these. Lovely cards and awesome paper. I wish I had some in my stash! Thanks for joining us at SIP for our cardmaker's choice challenge!
ReplyDeleteThanks Tina. The paper looks so real! Was fun to play along. Thanks for stopping by the blog.
DeleteThat paper is really great! It does look watercolored! Thank you for joining us for the Stamp, Ink, Paper Card Maker's Choice Challenge! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Justin. I need to get me some more of this paper. Was fun to play along!
DeleteThanks Justin. I need to get me some more of this paper. Was fun to play along!
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