If I said I had a blast with this week's WCW, that would be an understatement. I have three more cards in the hopper!!!!!
The WCW technique is using a larger round brush in a vertical and angled direction to make circles that will bleed into each other. It's a wet on dry technique but you need to have a fair amount of water to make the bleeding happen. I sure had fun with this.
This third card I'm uploading is also for Lisa's WT-a sympathy card. I've been to four funerals in the past three months so I know the need. I don't like to make super typical cards for this so I used the WCW technique but only used Payne's grey, a favorite color of mine. I used more water than pigment, selectively dotting some of the grey after painting a water circle. I heat embossed some leaves with gilded ep and stamped the same leaf along the edge in black.
I am not fond of 'with sympathy' on cards, seems rather cold. 'Thinking of you' is fine; 'thoughts and prayers'....no thank you!!!! Way over used!!!!!! I also find it interesting that often there are flowers on sympathy cards but everyone is so conscious of gender when making cards. Flowers aren't for men, right? Ok, I'll get off my soapbox.
I also decided to CASE Tranna (grannytranny). She died the end of 2021, was a DG and a good friend of Betty (sweet Irene). I'm very sad about this, as she was young at heart and vital. Only 68....no words. This is what I CASEd: FS503 Falling Leaves by grannytranny at Splitcoaststampers
Date: Thursday, January 6, 2022 GMT Views: 1078
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Thu, Jan 06, 2022 @ 10:06 PM
Wow this is absolutely gorgeous. Happy day
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Fri, Jan 07, 2022 @ 8:41 AM
What a wonderful way to use the watercolor colors for an elegant gender-neutral card. I have saved your gorgeous card because it has so many subtle elements I'd like to remember. Also, So I'm sorry to hear about Tranna. Although I didn't know her, I recognize her from here and she made amazing cards.
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Wed, Jan 12, 2022 @ 12:34 PM
This is perfection. Those wc circles are soft and beautiful cascading down the card. Then, the golden embossed leaves overlay the orbs. Wow, just so beautiful with technique and layout.
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