Faber Castel and Finding Nana

It’s time for my solo post at ABNH for this month and we have collaborations with two awesome companies. Faber Castell Design Memory Craft and Finding Nana. And of course there are some Hero Arts stamps invloved as usual. Lets get to it!

 

For my first card I used water color pencils in yellow and pink on some water color paper to make a pretty background. I then stamped the typewriter on top of the colored paper. Then I colored the typewriter with Copics, since the Copics won’t react with watercolor and the colors was so light it worked without problems. The typewriter is small and i made sure to be careful not to damage the tip of the marker on the rough paper. I stamped the typewiter again on regular printing paper and also the sentiment and cut out just the sheet of paper and adhered on top of the watercolored piece. I like the combination of Watercolors and Copics. And the washi is so cute!

On this card I colored a piece of Vellum with the same watercolor pencils and made a shaker card out of it. I turned the colored side of the Vellum in so it won’t smudge and embossed a geeting. I used a sheet of shimmering cardstock as background, it’s very pretty! And again, that washi tape! Love it!

On my thid card I used Gelatos to make a background. I stamped and embossed the hello in black and also made some shading with Distress Markers The Speech Bubble paper clips are from Finding Nana and I think they matched the hellos.

A big thank you to Faber Castell Design Memory Craft and Finding Nana!

 

 

I also wanted to remind you there is still time to create for the current challenge, the theme is Bokeh. There is a geat prize from our generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp.

 

 

 

 

InLinkz.com

http://static.inlinkz.com/ppr.js
Related articles

Hooray!

Be the change

It's not in the cards

Home is where the heart is

Take the Challenge with Mou, May 2014

Tutorial for making backgrounds

This week has been tutorial week over at En liten butik and my contribution is how to make a lovely water color-effect kind of background. I’ve used some mist and distress stains but you can really use any color product you have in your stash. I generally use at least one product with shimmer in it since it gives a lovely marbel-effect and I just love everything that shimmers ;)

I use a plastic packaging to make my backgrounds. That way I have a general idea of the placement of my colors. It never turns out really like you thought but I am a control freak so I have to imagine I have some control over something at least. I started so smear out the distress stain and then dropped the mist where I wanted it. Then I generously spray water all over the background. This is the key to getting the water color effect. You can skip this step but then the pattern will be a lot more defined. Also you can use a stick or brush to make patterns before spraying the water, it looks cool.

This is the result after the first try. It looks a little... blah... so I will go over it with my heat tool to dry it and then give it another layer.

Here you can see what it looks like before spraying the water.

And after drying it the second time this is the result and I’m happy. It never turns out like you think and you will have to be prepared to toss some of the backgrounds in the garbage bin. Or just cut out the nice parts to make cards and embellishments and toss the rest.

I made a LO with my background. I think the photo was perfect with this background, it looks dreamy. Like clouds ad bokah or something.

I hope you will try to make your own backgrouds. It is fun and quick when you use a heat tool to dry it. And it is easy to match your papers and photos to the background.

Related articles

Bloom where you are planted

Stampendous Embossing Enamel