Hi everyone! It’s Lisa here with you on this fabulously crafty Tuesday. And we are thrilled to be Blog Hopping with Penny Black all week long and getting in the Holiday spirit early. Yay!
Here is the card that I created for the hop. I always love creating with Penny Black. My creativity tends to go a little bit crazy. 😉
I used the Sprightly (40-337) background stamp in a slightly different way. I heat embossed it with gold embossing powder and then used just parts of the stamp to create kind of a swirly look on opposing corners. I then used 3 colors of Distress Inks (Seedless Preserves, Pumice Stone and Evergreen Bough) to “watercolor” the background. The berries were colored with an Art GRIP™ Aquarelle Watercolor Pencil from Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft®.
You can see some of the overlap of the colors a little bit better in this photo. It’s a very loose style of watercoloring.
I used the same gold embossing powder on a piece of cardstock weight vellum to stamp the sentiment from the set called Beauty of the Season (30-254) which I wrapped around the watercolored piece. I secured it in place with my E-Z Dots® Permanent Refillable Adhesive.
Then I added LOTS of 3D Foam Squares (in white) to give the card front dimension. Before attaching to the card base, I wrapped a piece of Ivory seam binding ribbon around it and secured with a few DODZ™ – Small (I like to roll them up).
Now all I had to do was add it to the card base, which I kept neutral. I love how it turned out. I hope you all like it, too! 🙂
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Supplies:
From Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®:
3D Foam Squares Regular, White
Dodz™ – Small
E-Z Dots Permanent Refillable
Other Supplies:
Ranger: Watercolor Paper, Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Evergreen Bough, Pumice Stone, Seedless Preserves).
Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft® : Art GRIP™ Aquarelle Watercolor Pencil #121
Tsukineko: Versamark
WOW! Embossing Powders: Metallic Gold Rich Pale Embossing Powder
Penny Black: Sprightly, Beauty of the Seasons
By Iris Soscia September 23, 2014 - 8:55 am
Love the watercolor look and the gold embossing.
isoscia at aol dot com
By Beverly Lewis September 23, 2014 - 9:00 am
You just can’t beat gold on vellum. Very pretty card. Cards are all that I will be crafting for the holidays.
By Vera W. Yates September 23, 2014 - 9:31 am
Wow, Lisa… this card is stunning! Love the watercolor design combine with the gold embossing.
By Zena September 23, 2014 - 10:06 am
So very beautiful. Not good at water coloring but I think I will try again. Thanks!
By Sue McRae September 23, 2014 - 10:07 am
I love that background and the feeling of movement with your colors!
By Greta H September 23, 2014 - 11:10 am
I haven’t started anything but cards so far, but plan to decorate a tin for my homemade biscotti & I always love decorating candles. This is one of my all-time favorite cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
By Asia King September 23, 2014 - 11:26 am
Beautiful card Lisa!
By Sue D September 23, 2014 - 12:09 pm
Love the background and the embossing.
By Carla Hundley September 23, 2014 - 12:32 pm
Lovely card and I love
the bold colors!
Carla from Utah
By Zoey September 23, 2014 - 12:42 pm
Lisa, I so love how you used this stamp set! Love the card!!
TFS
XOXO <3
By Cindy Seidelman September 23, 2014 - 1:34 pm
Wonderful card!
By marylouh September 23, 2014 - 2:49 pm
Beautiful card. The colors are soft and pretty. The background stamp is great.
thanks for sharing a wonderful card.
By Pam Sparks September 23, 2014 - 2:58 pm
Beautiful stamping/coloring and designing Lisa!
By Robin B. September 23, 2014 - 3:03 pm
Wow, the watercolors on this card are so beautiful!
By Merethe A. September 23, 2014 - 3:03 pm
Lovely color and stamps 🙂
By Jamie Vanskiver September 23, 2014 - 3:05 pm
love this! Very artsy.! I’m making tags so far right now but I plan on making felt ornaments too.
By Amy M. C. September 23, 2014 - 4:10 pm
What a beautiful watercolor background!
By Deborah S September 23, 2014 - 4:29 pm
What a gorgeous card the BG is beautiful and the sentiment on the velum and embossed really does it justice!
By c September 23, 2014 - 5:28 pm
Jaw-dropping, breath-taken away gorgeous! So incredibly beautiful with that lovely water-coloured background, embossed ‘selective’ stamping and the vellum sentiment. In awe…
~c
By Ohhh Snap September 23, 2014 - 5:40 pm
what a beautiful card!
By Julie Pike September 23, 2014 - 6:23 pm
Beautiful card! Love the watercolour and the gold embossing…. stunning!
By Laurie B September 23, 2014 - 6:34 pm
Beautiful card – lovely colors
By Linda C. September 23, 2014 - 8:18 pm
Enjoying Blog Week…..Pretty Card!!!
By Denise Bryant September 23, 2014 - 10:49 pm
Gorgeous card! I love the colors and the beautiful stamp you used!
By teri September 24, 2014 - 1:39 am
So, so pretty, Lisa!
By Thordis September 24, 2014 - 6:22 am
Wow! Your card is stunning. Love everything about it 🙂
By Linda F September 24, 2014 - 6:37 am
Lisa, your card is stunningly beautiful. I love the watercolouring and the gold embossing. The sentiment floating on the vellum is gorgeous.
By Dana W September 24, 2014 - 9:13 am
I’ll be making lots of cards!! Gorgeous background!!
By InezbyDesign September 24, 2014 - 12:36 pm
Oh my, this is beautiful! I like the whole thing and definitely want to try this.
By Glennis F September 24, 2014 - 2:09 pm
Interesting technique – something new to try
By Charity Chamberlain September 24, 2014 - 4:47 pm
Beautiful watercolor and embossing!
By Linsey September 25, 2014 - 2:21 am
Oh your card is breathtaking Lisa! I love the purple hues and watercolor effect–so very unique and lovely! The gold embossing of your greeting is perfection! Gorgeous and wonderfully inspiring! Thanks so much! 😉
By Christine Kosmak September 25, 2014 - 5:25 am
Love this watercolour card,I will have to try this idea out with some stamps etc that I actually have in my stash.
By Sandy September 25, 2014 - 7:12 am
The vellum overlay is perfect on this card!
By Deb Jennings September 25, 2014 - 7:51 am
Great card. Love your colours. I am going to try to follow your method and see what happens!
By Debbie Jarvis September 25, 2014 - 8:15 am
I love the watercolor background to your card. The swirl effect is nice also.
By Heidi Muska September 25, 2014 - 11:41 am
Love this! So Beautiful!! 🙂
By Judy B September 25, 2014 - 6:32 pm
Such a pretty and unique card. Thanks for sharing with us.
By Janis in ID September 26, 2014 - 12:08 am
Such a lovely effect with the watercolor and vellum with gold!!
<3 J
jwoolbright at gmail dot com
HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com
By Saundra A. September 26, 2014 - 2:50 pm
Love this care! Watercolor so nice. Great inspiration!
By Heather Thompson September 27, 2014 - 8:00 am
absolutist exquisite background.