Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop - Sharing Techniques or Top Tips
Hello, welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea. I am so excited to have been asked to join the Be Inspired Design Team. I am in awe of everyone in the team - they are so talented. This is my first blog hop with the team so I do appreciate you dropping in.
The technique I am sharing this month via my project is wet-on-wet water-colouring. I was a bit tentative selecting this technique as I know others on the team who are brilliant water-colorers. However, I do love water-colouring so decided on to go with something I love.
I also adore Stampin’ Up! Scenic Adventure bundle. The dies are amazing with extra details within the die cuts. Numerous die cuts were prepared in watercolor paper. Stampin’ Up! uses Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper which is a really good paper. A background panel was also cut from water-colour paper.
The background was wet on wet water-coloured using the larger flat Water Painter. Each colour was painted separately. Where I wanted some melding of colours, the next colour was added while the previous colour was still wet. Balmy Blue Classic ink was used for the sky, with touches of diluted Pretty In Pink to glow around the mountains. The mountains were coloured with Fresh Freesia & Petunia Pop. The colours were more diluted for the mountains at the back to give a sense of depth. The smaller background trees were coloured in different strengths of Lost Lagoon. The larger trees at the left were coloured with Pretty Peacock & touches of Lost Lagoon. The bushes in the foreground were just Pretty Peacock coloured. The foreground is a mixture of Pool Party and Lost Lagoon - both diluted.
The scene was framed in Basic White card-stock using the wonderful frame die from the Gallery Blooms dies. The background beneath the scene is a panel of Lost Lagoon card-stock, embossed with the Soft Waves 3D Embossing Folder and then adhered to a Basic White card-base.
A sentiment from the Scenic Adventure stamp set was white heat embossed onto a piece of Pretty Peacock card-stock and then fussy cut. A bow was created from the White 1/4” Starter Ribbon Pack that had been cut in half lengthwise. To bring the pinky purple colour further down the design some Strawberry Slush & Pretty in Pink Gems were scattered around the sentiment.
For those who know me, know I like to add a touch of decoration to the inside panel to link it in some way to the card front design. A little coordinating stamping was added in Lost Lagoon ink - just very simple. A little blending was added near the stamping as well.
I also like to simply decorate the envelope. The same stamping and blending was added to a C6 Basic White Envelope.
Thank you so much for spending time with me. I hope you have found something to inspire.
I am looking forward to checking out the projects created by everyone in the June Be Inspired Blog Hop. Next in line is the amazing Maheswari Rajaguru. Just click on the graphic below to head over to Maheswari’s blog, My Stamp Garden.
The full list of those participating in this hop is:
Andrea Sargent <you are here
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