It's a first outing for this lovely rose stamp and sentiment from the Craftascope bundle I won earlier in the year.
I started with the image because I knew it would need a LOT of drying time. (I still resorted to the heat gun in the end because I'm so impatient.). I stamped it onto watercolour card and then, one section at a time, roughly filled in the flower or leaf with a water brush and sprinkled Brushos over, lightly blending the crystals and drawing them out towards the edges with a damp brush. The lighter red crystals blended a little too easily, the darker ones I used for the rose on the left gave the look I was really aiming for. Each section had to dry completely before moving on to the next, so that I could tap the stray crystals of pigment off the dry areas.Once it was all dry, I re-wet the brush I'd used for blending the red paint and flicked it randomly over the whole image to add some spatters, then tore the image roughly to shape and set it aside.
For the background layers, I used three different embossing folders and red, pink and purple distress inks, roughly smoothing the ink pads over the debossed side of the folder and lightly spritzing with water before embossing white card. Again, I tore each piece to the shape and size I wanted to use.
I lightly blended red ink around the edge of my card and stamped the sentiment onto white card, finishing the edges with a distressing tool, then assembled the whole thing finishing with a bow made from two layers of organza ribbon.
I am sharing this with
Allsorts Challenge - Add a Bow
Fab'n'Funky - Roses
Sweet Stampin - Distressed
6 comments:
What a fabulous way to use Brushos! Very beautiful result as well. I just giggled about the 'Willis Sanwich'. That would be Deb Willis, who lives in Eastleigh - lovely lady who I met up with ages ago, along with SaRn and Sam, at the Southampton hotel where Darnell had her soiree! Isn't it funny how things go in full circles.
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Di x
Such beautifully vibrant Rose's Jane and a lovely card, thanks so much for sharing and joining our 'Bows' theme at Allsorts challenge this week.
B x
Beautiful card, lovely vibrant colour and fabulous texture. Thank you for playing along at Sweet Stampin' this week.
Chris
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Love the vibrant colours and great backgrounds.
wow - so much work has gone into this card Jane, it looks amazing.
Thanks so much for joining in with my add a bow challenge at Allsorts.
Lynn x
DT
So nicely done with wonderful details!
Thank you so much for joining in at Allsorts challenge this week!
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