Thereâs a new challenge in town on Splitcoast..just started up this summer. Itâs the Watercolor Wednesday Challenge & today the challenge (WCW015) is watercolored die cuts. I think the aim to watercolor on die cuts. I went about it in the opposite direction, but I hope that will still count
I just rec'd this brand new die (preorder now) & I had it in my mind to make a city scene at Christmas so I rather randomly painted a piece of watercolor paper w/ greens & reds. I used Brushos & mixed the powders in a plastic palette before dropping them, wet into wet, onto the w/c paper. I used a heat gun to quickly dry it & this stopped the color from totally blending out & gave me some hard edges & the splotches I was looking for. After it was dry, I die cut it. I also die cut a piece of scratch paper & used the negative top part as a mask & sponged in the background buildings before popping the die cut version up w/ fun foam & attaching it. Before I put it all on the slimline card front, I splattered it w/ white acrylic paint, then stamped the greeting (new & also soon to be released!). A narrow stitched hill was attached on top to represent snow on the ground. I dotted some of the snow w/ stickles for a little sparkle.
Thanks so much for looking. It's on my blog w/ close-ups & product links: The Write Stuff
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 GMT Views: 925
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Ink: Rubbernecker Stamps: Color Fuse inks set #4, set #11, VersaClair nocturne
Accessories: Rubbernecker Stamps: Slimline Skyline (new! preorder), Stitched Hills, Slimline Nested Stitch dies, Crossover II, white Acrylic paint, Brushos Water Color Crystals, Stickles
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Wed, Sep 09, 2020 @ 1:06 PM
Oh, wow, Julie! I really LOVE this beautiful card with your cityscape in these colors. And, I like how you did it....really gave it a lot of enery.
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Wed, Sep 09, 2020 @ 2:15 PM
You may have reversed the process but it certainly works for this city scape. It makes the delineation of colors more random and adds some really interesting highlights and shadows.
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