A Very Large Poppy

Hi, I have a couple cards to share with you today that are using the

same stamp.  The poppy stamp is from IndiGo Blu and is very large.

The first one I stamped and heat embossed in black on watercolor

paper and then let the water and my Zig Clean Color do the

magic and work together.

The colors look so much brighter in person.  After it was all colored I

hand cut around it and then pop dotted it onto black card stock.  I mounted

the whole thing onto some salmon colored card stock to pick up some of the colors from the poppy.

The second card was also stamped onto watercolor paper and this time heat embossed in gold.  I am not real wild about it embossed in gold as there is so

much detail on this stamp that you just lose some of the definition.

Ths one I colored using Ken Oliver Color Burst powders.   I think I will have to try this again using a different color embossing.  I like to heat emboss when I use

water and watercolor as it somewhat contains the colors when they flow. 

I stamped the birthday wishes then cut them using a Gina Marie die and pop mounted them.

Well thanks for stopping by and checking out my two cards using the same stamp

but with totally different looks.

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Wishing you a Beautiful Day

Hello everyone, hope you all are having a fabulous weekend.

Here is Arizona I am so ready for Summer to be over and

finally have our temperatures drop below 100.

I recently saw a video on Catherine Pooler's blog where she 

made a card using Brusho Powders. Well, I don't have any Brusho but I do have Ken Oliver Color Burst which is basically the same thing.

Here is a link to her video if you want to check it out, click

HERE to watch it. 

Since I recently had surgery on my hand and can't really color I thought

this was something I could do because it just has to be sprayed with water.

So here is my take on it. 

The feathers are stamped on Canson mixed media paper using a Unity Stamp and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  I then wet the stamped area with

plain water then sprinkled my Color Burst powders on it.    I sprayed it with more water to make the colors blend and move some more, then to add more sparkle I sprayed it with diamond Glimmer Mist spray.  Lastly, I splattered some

dark gray spot on it.  I have to tell you then when I finished with the coloring

I thought yuck, this came out awful.  I went ahead and mounted the piece on a piece of very dark gray paper and I think it made the whole thing pop. 

I stamped the sentiment in white on the same dark gray paper and pop dotted it 

on the front.  After it was all together I really liked it.

The colors are so much prettier in person and sparkly.

Thanks for stopping by and let me know what you think of my version

of watercoloring with Color Burst powders.  

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