IC479 took us to an amazing website - Harusaki Water Color filled with beautiful paintings. I wasn't drawn to any one in particular but to all the softness of the images.
So I coloured my image and then sprayed it with water and stamped on my watercolour paper. I was THRILLED with the outcome. And then I stamped my image. Way too low. Even though I had planned it out, my mind and hands decided to lower it at least half an inch. What!!??? Ok - so now I threw it down and walked away. But finally decided to finish it anyway. So I added some embroidery floss because it looked like too much white space at the top and then to balance it out, I added some piercing to the bottom corner. HOW did one of the holes end up bigger than the rest??!! It's not like I took a break and did that one little hole later on with a different tool. Arghhh! So after 97.5 hours (well not quite) of working on this card, it's done. Not my fave, but I don't completely hate it. Oh - and I matted the panel with SU Elegant Eggplant and popped it up on a watercolour card base.
Thanks for taking a peek!
Date: Saturday, February 7, 2015 GMT Views: 3529
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Registered: January 20, 2010 Location: Brampton, Ontario Posts: 26123
Sun, Feb 08, 2015 @ 7:20 AM
Ha! I feel your pain. Sometimes the hands do what the hands do. :-) I think you were wise to walk away and come back later because your card is marvellous! I think the additions you made to 'rescue' it added so many interesting details. I really like the twine across the top. The pierced corners look great and give a little boundary to your image. ...which is splendid by the way! Lovely card!
Registered: September 12, 2007 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 61357
Sun, Feb 08, 2015 @ 5:49 PM
Now Ms. Laurie, let's revisit your sentiments. I can understand the anxiety of spending oodles of time on a card, but none could look as extraordinary as this. I think it's awesome. I'm overwhelmed with what you created. C'mon now, you're the winner, hands down.
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Registered: December 15, 2011 Location: Abilene TX Posts: 11275
Sun, Feb 08, 2015 @ 9:42 PM
I think this is gorgeous! We are so much our own worse critics - I would have never even noticed that one of the holes was larger. I hope when you look at later that you realize you created a beautiful card!
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Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28834
Mon, Feb 09, 2015 @ 7:17 AM
Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful!!!
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