No Line Water Coloring with Catherine Pooler Inks | Video

Water-coloring is becoming one of my favourite techniques! In my last week's post I mentioned that I wanted to be a water color artist. Since then I just kept trying and I'm not saying that I am pretty perfect at this moment. You can point out many mistakes but I just love the result and I wanna keep trying :)

CARD DETAILS

As soon as I got my inks from Catherine Pooler Designs I almost tried out all the techniques, kind of tested it out and found that these inks are not only juicy and vibrant but also very versatile.

• When stamped it gives a solid and non splotchy image (ex: here)
• Gives a perfect ink blended background (here)
• Great for ink smooshing (here)
• Can do water coloring also 

I started stamping a few floral images from Beautiful You stamp set on Timholtz water color paper with Antique Linen Distress Ink. I didn't mask any of my images just nested the flowers by turning the images in different angles. I smooshed Flirty Fuchsia, Party Dress, Rockin Red and Lime Rickey inks on a DIY palette and water colored the flowers with a paint brush.

I just love the result. As always I added splatters of black paint to enhance the beauty of the design. I struggled a bit on where the sentiment should go but I decided to stamp on the center of the flower. I outlined the sentiment with Gold Calligraphy Marker to stand against the bright bold background. Finally added Wink of Stella clear for the images.

I have made a video for you and I hope you'll enjoy watching it. :) Thanks for visiting. See you soon!

Moped Bigz Die | Sizzix

Hello everyone! How are you? My nieces are here so I really have a very less time to craft and think about ideas. But somehow I squeezed in a little time and created this cute card with Moped Bigz Die from Sizzix UK. I love creating all cute stuff but sometimes I think and come out of my comfort zone and create cards with different styles. But cute stuff with happy and bright colors are always close to my heart. :)

CARD DETAILS

This Moped Bigz Die was designed by Debi Potter and it die-cuts 9 pieces but you need to die-cut the wheels and lights twice. This Moped was too big for my card so I decided to adhere half portion on the card front and the remaining on the inside of the card!

I die-cut all the pieces by running the card stock and die through the Big Shot Express machine and distress colored with Festive Berries, Peacock Feathers, Black Soot and Mustard Seed distress inks. Once the pigment dries, I adhered all the pieces with Tombow Glue. 

Here's how the Moped looks like!

I took a white card base, masked the edges and ink blended the background with Black Soot Distress Ink. Then added splatters of water with a paint brush and blotted the excess with a tissue paper. This creates some magical effect to the background. Then adhered the Moped on the front of the card with a few hearts and stamped the sentiment from Technique Tuesday. I think the sentiment matches perfectly to this cute little card.

On the inside of the card, I masked the lower portion and blended with Black Soot Distress Ink, also added splatters of water. And finally added the remaining half portion on the inside of the card with a few punched hearts! :)

And that's it. I hope you like the card. Thank you so much for stopping by. See you soon :)

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