Hello friends! This is a special day because it is The Flower Challenge's 7th birthday! The theme is Anything Goes plus we have a number of previous Design Team members joining us for this month-long celebration, along with our latest new DT member Judy Rozema. Woo hoo!
Sadly, this is Viv and Aileen's last challenge as part of the DT, and Cara as well. We wish them all the best and hope they come back to play along once in a while.
For my card I stepped out of my comfort zone and did some water coloring using Distress Watercolor Pencils.
In February I attended a class led by the amazing Jenn Shurkus where she taught us some basic skills for using Distress Watercolor Pencils, so I decided to apply some of what I learned using a page from the Altenew Watercolor Coloring Book. I painted in layers then when the flower and leaves were done, I used Speckled Egg to go around the outside of the image, then added splatter in Seedless Preserves, Black Soot and metallic gold paint.
The panel was trimmed down to 3.75" x 5.75" from it's original A7 size, matted with Stampin' Up Blackberry cardstock and added to a lavendar panel that was embossed with the Gina K Lattice folder using a bit of thin foam tape. The sentiment from Altenew Versatile Greeting was die cut from matte gold and layered on a vellum shadow. The last step was adding it to an A7 Ivory card base.
We sure hope you'll join us in celebrating TFC's 7th birthday! In the meantime, please head over to the challenge blog where the DT and guest DTs have some beautiful inspiration to share with you!
Take care!
Stef
Paper: Altenew Watercolor Coloring Book, Simon Says Stamp Lavendar, SU Blackberry Bliss, Hero Arts Antique Ivory, SSS Matte Gold, Lawn Fawn Pearlescent Vellum
Dies: Altenew Versatile Greetings, Waffle Flower A7 Layers dies
Embossing: Gina K Lattice folder
Watercolor: Altenew Metallic watercolor pan set; Distress Watercolor Pencils in Shaded Lilac, Seedless Preserves, Twisted Citron, Rustic Wilderness, Folssilized Amber, Wild Honey, Vintage Photo, Black Soot and Speckled Egg
4 comments:
Thanks for the sweer comments Stef and you made such a gorgeous card here too ;) hugs Viv xx
Your card is beautiful Stef. Looks like you've mastered watercolour with pencils ... great work! Congrats on the 7th birthday at The Flower Challenge!
Stef, your watercoloring is just perfect. I look forward to seeing more in this style. Thank you so much for all your support over the years and your involvement as design team member on the blog xx Aileen
You definitely learned from the class, Stef, because this is beautiful. I love the blue around the flower and splatters always add a great finishing touch.
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