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November 14, 2020
Create a Vintage Style Card With Embossing Folders
Even though I make cards in all kinds of styles (one of the things I love about rubber stamping) vintage style cards are my favorites. Today I want to show you a way to create a vintage style background using embossing folders.
First, let me show you my finished card.
For this background, I used the beautiful Parisian Flourish 3D embossing folder with Very Vanilla card stock. This technique works best with bolder embossing and with the 3D folders.
Posted in Creativity | By Paula Cannon
December 1, 2019
More Watercolor Fun with Gather Together
Sometimes I think I could spend days playing with watercolor and my Gather Together stamp set. Not only are the leaves fun to color, but the pumpkins are, too! Especially if you go beyond orange and venture into other gourd colors.
The pumpkins on this card are all orange, though. Colored with Pumpkin Pie, naturally. Ah, but the leaves. I’ve had so much fun playing with different ink colors and my trusty aqua painter. These leaves started with a little Crushed Curry and Old Olive, then a tiny bit of Pumpkin Pie, but I wanted them to be more red and I tried Merry Merlot. I like the result, and the orange of the pumpkin plays well with it.
I had a vague thought of two or three leaves (more…)
Posted in Creativity | By Paula Cannon
November 1, 2019
Watercolor Fun for Brilliant Autumn Leaves
Recently I shared a card using the big leaf from the Gather Together stamp set that I had colored with watercolor pencils. (see it here) However, my favorite way to color autumn leaves is with watercolor.
One reason is the colors blend and wash together, just as the colors do on real leaves as they change. Also because its just fun to play with watercolor.
Posted in Creativity | By Paula Cannon
October 19, 2019
A Vintage Card with Watercolor Pencils
My watercolor pencils solved a problem I didn’t even know I had when I started making this card! After I bought the Gather Together stamp set, I knew I wanted to use it with the script image from Very Versailles. As I started playing with the images, I realized I wanted a translucent color for my leaf. And I wanted to stamp everything for this card and not use a die-cut leaf.
That’s what I had in my head, so that’s what I tried to do. And I think the watercolor pencils created the look I imagined.
Posted in Creativity | By Paula Cannon