Posted in card, cards, Paige Evans, Silhouette Cameo, watercolor on April 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I have a hard time knowing what words to send to a friend, and in those cases, I hope that the handmade card helps to express what I’m trying to say.
For these cards, I cut a Paige Evans flower bouquet from white textured cardstock and used it to inspire the loose watercolor. After the paint had dried, I adhered the die cut over the watercolor with a sentiment strip.
These cards were made with heartfelt love and prayers.
Posted in card, Paige Evans, Silhouette Cameo, watercolor on August 7, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I wanted to hand-make a special wedding card for my cousin and his new wife, and believe it or not, this one was inspired by the ampersand card in this blog post. I didn’t have the same cut file, but as I was looking through my collection of Paige Evans cut files, I came across this floral spray… and the wheels started turning in my brain. The couple’s wedding invitation had a lovely floral design, and so I “inverted” the ampersand card a bit– I made the floral element the focal design and the ampersand into the accent piece. I used watercolors to paint an abstract background for the cut file– using colors to match the invitation.
The ampersand is four layers of white cardstock, and I painted the top layer with Heidi Swapp gold ColorShine since I didn’t have any metallic paper on hand. I added some gold droplets and gold sequins as a finishing touch.
I adhered the cut file only in the center bits so that the edges would be free and show a bit of dimensionality.
Posted in card, cards, watercolor on March 31, 2019| 1 Comment »
Recently, a friend from church gave me a big box of lovely wooden, red-rubber stamps that she was clearing out of her house. In particular, there were two of these stained-glass style stamps that really caught my eye.
When a need came up this past week for an encouragement/get well card, I knew that I had to try this stamp out.
I stamped the image onto watercolor paper with a black pigment ink pad that wasn’t as juicy as I expected, so the lines came out a softer grey color. I heat-embossed them with clear powder to give the image the look of leaded glass.
After the heat-embossing was cool, I spent some relaxing time painting each space with watercolors. I love how the transparency and varying intensity of the color gives a glass look!
I have done very little watercoloring (besides playing as a kid), so this might be a new medium for me to look into!
P.S. I’m linking this to the Simon Says Stamp “Play with Paint” Monday challenge and the Wednesday “Anything Goes” challenge!
