Wonderful IC site today! For this card, I was inspired by This. I actually had to do "surgery" on my ornament image. I wanted a blank ornament but all I could find was this ornament which originally had a nativity scene inside, so I took a craft knife and carefully cut it out. I was also inspired by a card Lydia posted on the SCS FB page of some free form water color ornaments & really liked it. I don't remember who did it or how long ago it was, or I'd link it.
So after the image surgery, I stamped the ornament, masked & stamped twice more using pumice ink (after stamping off once) onto water color paper. This w/c paper isn't my fave..it's a little rougher & grainer than what I usually use, but I couldn't remember where I put the other paper. Anyway, the pumice ink after stamping off 1 time, just leaves a bare outline that pretty much disappears when all the coloring is finished. Now the coloring took me a quite a while because the color has to be painted in layers & allowed to dry in between. I'm not one to appreciate watching paint dry, so I helped it a lot w/ a heat gun. The splotchy, free form look is intended to be that way & I'm pretty satisfied with it.
I added a little splatter & went back w/ a fine line paint brush to remove some paint for the highlights along the edges then stamped the greeting & drew the lines to the ornament tops.
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2014 GMT Views: 3062
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