Cards with water coloring technique

Hi friends,

This is a post to show my trial with water coloring technique.

I had been wanting to try cards with water coloring technique. When i saw the month's challenge at create something catchy challenges, i decided to try my hands on it... There were a lot on my list to try, here i am showing three cards i tried among those.

1. Watercolor pencils + Vellum + Dry Embossing

I dry embossed a vellum sheet with an embossing folder, highlighted the flowers and leaves on the reverse side with water color pencils. And here is the result

2. Water color + Vellum + Heat Embossing -Stained Glass Technique

I Stamped an image with Versamark ink, Heat embossed it with black Embossing powder, then colored it with water color on the reverse side.

Entering this card only into Lulupu challenge - Black,White and Pop of color

Entering the above two cards into Imaginations online Blog challenges - All about Embossing

3. Water color + Glue 

Stamped an image with white pigment ink and then outlined it with glue.. Let it dry. And then filled the insides with watercolor.

And, here is the outcome. 

Entering these cards into the following challenges:

1. Create something catchy challenges - Water colors 

Teacher's Day Card (No:1)

This is a simple Teacher's Day card  I did for my daughter's School teacher...

I followed this sketch from Crazy for CAS challenges

Entering this card into the following challenges:
1. Crazy for CAS - Sketch 52 (Closes 12 Sep)
2. thecuttingedgechallenge  - Inspiration pic

Hope you all like it...

Hugs
Catherine

Guest Designer post at LULUPU!!!

 I was so excited when I saw my card as the winner at Lulupu Blog (Inspired by Lulupu logo challenge).  To play along with the latest challenge – Go 3D, I decided to make a MDF frame and a coordinating handmade box on New Baby Boy theme.  

And here are step by step.. 

1. I have taken a Baby theme MDF frame. I like all my MDF items to be painted with acrylic or gesso before I start working on it. Here I painted the frame with blue acrylic paint. 

2. For the Borders, I chose a lovely  yellow pattern paper, cut them according to the measurements and glued them down with Mod Podge .

3. Just to highlight the theme, I decorated the header(BABY) with Pearls.

 4. The baby image is a stamp from Crafter’s companion. Coloured the image using distress inks. Added few sentiment stamps on distressed background and adhered them to the columns

5. There are rooms for two photographs which I have filled with a lattice background.
6. Finally I sprayed a coat of acrylic spray to make it water resistant.

Now, for the Gift Box part, 

1. Take two pieces of heavy gsm cardstocks in white.2. Begin by measuring the size of the frame – the length, width and depth(including the projecting bits). I decided to leave a lil space around the frame when it is inside the box.3. Score the cardstock with the help of the score board. Then snip each corner on the red line. (Refer pic) This creates the glue tabs needed to assemble the box. 

4. Fold the cardstock into a box shape. Be sure the glue tabs are on the inside. Glue the tabs to the sides of the box.

5. Create one more box following the same procedure a few centimetres bigger on all the sides so that it acts as a lid.

 6. Now, decorate this with pattern papers. I have used punched cutouts as borders, added sentiment, flowers, and a Ribbon with a Black circle tag where the sentiment  is heat embossed with Gold embossing powder.

Hope you like my project!!

the link to my GDT post 

http://lulupu.blogspot.in/2014/07/guest-designer-catherine-joseph.html

Hugs

Catherine Joseph