Hi guys!
Apologies for the confusing headline, I was trying to be a bit clever and funny. Not the best idea on a day when you are tired, possibly on a delayed sugar-high and too full. Technically these cards are coloured, BUT only the backgrounds. The images themselves are not but oh well, I hope you will forgive me when you see how easy these cards are.
I started out by watercolouring some background panels with the Atelier Ink re-inkers. A bit too late I had a super brilliant idea (I’m totally tooting my own horn here but I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner!) I have dripped ink into a plastic palette and I use these for water colouring but it’s getting to the point where I’m running a bit low. Instead of adding more re-inker to the colours, I added
Liquid Pixie Dust to the remains of the colours! This makes the colours shimmery without contaminating the colours on the paper, which is where I got the idea from. On my first two panels, the
Liquid Pixie Dust smeared the colours a bit and I had to be very careful how I added it. With the
Liquid Pixie Dust already mixed into the colours, you don’t have to worry! How brilliant is that??
The colours I used are
Bee Sting Yellow,
Goddess Green,
Peacock Blue,
My Jam Purple.
Marilyn Red and
Marigold Orange. With the backgrounds done, it was time to start thinking about the rest of the card making.
One of my favourite stamp sets from
InkOn3 is the
Magical Unicorn and I decided to use this one yet again. I also grabbed the
Oh Deer set and heat embossed these on vellum with
Gold Rush and
Chrome embossing powders. First I used a anti-static tool on my pieces of vellum, and the images are stamped with the
Juicy pad.
After they were heat embossed, I used the coordinating Magical Unicorn and
Oh Deer diecuts to cut them out. I also stamped up some sentiments and heat embossed these too.
At first I did them all in
Gold Rush, but then when it came time to put the cards together I decided to redo the sentiment for the Chrome Unicorn also in
Chrome. This time I did it on turquoise card stock, instead of white.
The vellum images are adhered with a vellum adheisive. It works relatively well, but oh man, it is a pain in the bee-hind to work with. The sentiment strips are adhered with liquid glue and with that, the cards are done!
I made a video for this post too, you can find that over on my
YouTube channel.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica
