Over the weekend, I played with some of my Brushos and water reactive powders; I finally located them since my move and realized I hadn't played with them in a while. My goal was to make several backgrounds that I could use for Falliday 2023 and other challenges and to not make such a mess of them, keeping some white space and separate colors. The key for me was less water, not move the powders too much and patience.
Bev's FF23 challenge was the inspiration to play with Brushos and powders. I added in a technique similar to one we did a while ago in the TLC; make a colorful background, dry emboss, use a black marker to color in the background and then use Versamark and ep to bring out the raised edges. No ep used here and I used a black inkpad rubbed on the debossed side before dry embossing. The rose ef doesn't have a lot of debossed area and would have been hard to color with black...tedious too. Cut some gold leaves with layers of cherry cobbler underneath for depth and added a postage stamp and some LP.
This is also for Sunday's FS-enjoy your week, Anita. Spring Day by Ausmex at Splitcoaststampers
I used the beautiful blended background as my starting point...similar colors, similar layout. Used leaves instead of the branch, no bird or birdhouse.
Thanks for the challenges!
Date: Monday, October 30, 2023 GMT Views: 178
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Jean, this is such a gorgeous card. The background you created is so dimensional and colorful and it highlights the metallic gold die cut branch perfectly. What a great technique.
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Tue, Oct 31, 2023 @ 5:06 PM
What a lovely card! The roses are stunningly beautiful with the black outlines on top of those gorgeous rich colors. Of course I love the stamp as well!
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Leslie
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