Yeah!!! I am back and stamping for fun. Last week was full of preparing for technique classes and making cards for weddings and retirements. There was no time to post anything and I really missed stamping just for fun.
Today's color challenge is based on using barely banana, lavender lace, going grey and basic black. I decided to do the re-inker watercolor technique on the rose from the Fifth Avenue Floral set. I just love the effect that this technique creates. The colors softly blend into each other and the results are stunning.
My rose image was stamped on shimmery white cardstock in versamark ink and then heat set with black embossing powder. I used a water bottle, aquapainter and lavender lace and barely banana re-inkers to color my rose. Once I had achieved the desired look I wanted I set the image aside to dry and put the rest of my card together.
I incorporated all four colors into the mats on my card. This challenge gave me a reason to use my long forgotten basic grey dp that I never seem to use. I added a pierced border around the dp mat and tied a length of whisper white organza ribbon around the large matted layers. These were popped off the barely banana base with dimensionals.
I popped the watercolored rose off matted layers of whisper white, lavender lace, basic black and barely banana cardstock. These were adhered to the center of the cardfront using dimensionals. I decided not to add any kind of sentiment to the cardfront. I thought it looked better without the clutter of another layered mat.
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Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral
Ink: Versamark, lavender lace, barely banana
CS: Whisper white, lavender lace, barely banana, basic black, going grey dp
Accessories: Aquapainter, black embossing powder, heat gun, crafter's tool kit, dimesionals, whisper white organza ribbon
Totally gorgeous, Laurie! The rose looks like it's glowing! Great job as usual! Love it!
Posted by: Wendy J. | July 14, 2009 at 04:24 PM
thank you thank you thank you! you solved my dilemma of how to position a single one of these rosebuds without leaves!!! i'm going to CASE this for a class i'm hosting this weekend! love the unusual color combination. great work. i'm guessing it's a 5"x5" square?
Posted by: jenn | July 14, 2009 at 04:25 PM
THAT is BREATHTAKING! WOW!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Nancy Riley | July 14, 2009 at 05:56 PM
Fabulous!!! The color combo is fantastic and your watercoloring is great. TFS
Posted by: Marie | July 14, 2009 at 07:07 PM
This is so creative; the black embossing powder with the light colors along
with the matching layers is just beyond gorgeous. Thank you for bringing such
ARTFUL new life to a much over used flower. Love it!!!
Posted by: Nena | July 15, 2009 at 09:20 PM
Oh my....your rose is gorgeous!!
Posted by: Rose Ann | July 16, 2009 at 02:07 PM
Stunning rose; love your coloring.
Posted by: Kathy W | August 08, 2009 at 02:27 PM