Watercolor Wednesday

Birthday Cards, Technique by cutscropscreativity
Continuing with the 7 Day Blogging challenge.

Nichole has a great tutorial on her blog for this week’s Make-It Monday! Its graduated backgrounds!

I loved her color combinations though I didn’t exactly follow her technique for making my backgrounds. I first put on a coat of water on my cardstock then used my distress ink pads (broken china, peeled paint, stormy sky, crushed olive) to blend in and get the background. Added water as needed along the way. I should add that this is using the distress ink pads not the re-inkers.

I have 2 cards for this. Here they are:

Supplies:
Cardstock: Taylored Expressions Lagoon cardstock background from March KI kit, GP110 for white panel, PTI rustic cream for graduated background
Inks: Peeled paint, Broken china, Crushed Olive, Stormy Sky distress inks, PTI true black for stamp and sentiment, Chomas Creations glitter pens for coloring
Accessories: Black pearls from Taylored Expressions Feb KI kit

The first is using PTI Stitches and Swirls set. I double stamped to get the blurry effect so don’t rub your eyes! Colored inside the flowers using my glitter pens from Chomas Creations. The sentiment is from PTI Birthday Inside Out and the black pearls are from my TE Feb KI kit. The background cardstock is from my March Key Ingredients kit from TE.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Taylored Expressions Lagoon cardstock background from March KI kit, GP110 for white panel, PTI rustic cream for graduated background
Inks: Peeled paint, Broken china, Crushed Olive, Stormy Sky distress inks, PTI true black for stamp and sentiment, Chomas Creations glitter pens for coloring
Tools: Spirograph
Accessories: Brads Taylored Expressions Feb KI kit

My next card is a fun one because the graduated backgrounds made me think of my spirograph for some reason. Enjoyed playing with it to make the central circle using my Chomas Creations gel pens. Then scribbled some more with the pens to get a very interesting background. The brads are from my March KI kit and the sentiment is from PTI Birthday Inside Out.

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6 Comments

  2. Winnie
    Reply

    Chaitali: I love your cards..The color combos are great. I have never heard of those gel pens. They look awesome! I love distress ink! I am taking Tim Holtz class for two weeks and have been covered in it and alcohol inks!

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