Mary has us playing Bingo this week! How fun is that?!?! :-)
For this week's Color Challenge, I chose the second column from the left on the Bingo card, which gave me Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White and Rich Razzleberry. The dessert option is "Anything Goes," so I chose watercoloring and ink smooshing.
The colors made me feel a bit wild and crazy, so I decided to try a new-to-me technique and also enter the first CAS Mix Up Challenge for the month of March 2016. The challenge is Stamping plus Watercoloring, plus one other mixed media "Your Choice" option. I stamped my flower outlines, watercolored the flowers, and used a die cut. I also used heat embossing, so I'm pretty sure I have all the requirements covered!
My first step was to stamp the flowers, then sprinkle with white embossing powder, then heat set. Then I used a Molotow masking pen to fill in all the flowers. Next came the Ink Smooshing background. After that was dry, I removed the masking fluid and watercolored the flowers with my Zigs. Last step was a few sequins, a few dots made with White Ranger Enamel Accents (I love that stuff!), and Wink of Stella on the flowers, leaves and "hello."
Accessories: Hero Arts White Embossing Powder, heat gun, Molotow masking pen, piece of acetate, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers, paint brush, Reverse Confetti Fancy Words die, Wink of Stella, sequins, Ranger Enamel Accents
Registered: January 20, 2011 Location: Beautiful British Columbia Posts: 7619
Tue, Mar 08, 2016 @ 10:40 AM
WOW ... your ink smooshed background is GORGEOUS! Love the mix of colours. Great job with colouring the flowers -- so pretty. I have masking fluid but find I'm too impatient to wait for it to dry. Then I end up in a mess. Will need to take another try at it, because I'd love to make something like this. Thanks for sharing at CAS Mix Up.
Oh, Barbara, I'm absolutely in LOVE with your card!! I love how you colored, then masked the flowers and then did the smooshed BG technique! Fabulous card and straight to my favorites. I ordered a couple of the pens so I can try your wonderful technique! Thanks for the inspiration!