Hello there. I'm back to share a CAS birthday card made for my friend Christine. Last month she introduced me to gouache paints. I came home with one successful card (see this post), but the other one was a mess. I was ready to toss it when I figured I had nothing to lose so tried to salvage it. Well, it worked! Honestly, I didn’t think it would so it never occurred to me to take a before photo - whoops!
Started by stamping the flower with white pigment ink on black cardstock, then coloured it with gouache paints. After the colouring was complete, I went to re-stamp it, but the stamp was removed from the MISTI. Christine attempted to line it up and white heat embossed it. Well, we all know even with clear stamps, aligning an image perfectly is pretty much impossible. As you can imagine, there were double outlines and uncoloured areas on the flower. .
What did I do? I used a black permanent marker to cover up unwanted white lines, filled in the flower with Polychromos pencils and went over the outline with white gouache paints. Then could you believe it? I screwed up on the sentiment! Definitely did not want to toss it after all that effort, so white heat embossed the sentiment onto a black scrap and covered up the other sentiment with it. Clear shimmer on the flower finished off the card.
I guess in a round about way, Christine had a hand in creating her card. 😂 Well, that does it for today. Thank you for visiting.
Started by stamping the flower with white pigment ink on black cardstock, then coloured it with gouache paints. After the colouring was complete, I went to re-stamp it, but the stamp was removed from the MISTI. Christine attempted to line it up and white heat embossed it. Well, we all know even with clear stamps, aligning an image perfectly is pretty much impossible. As you can imagine, there were double outlines and uncoloured areas on the flower. .
What did I do? I used a black permanent marker to cover up unwanted white lines, filled in the flower with Polychromos pencils and went over the outline with white gouache paints. Then could you believe it? I screwed up on the sentiment! Definitely did not want to toss it after all that effort, so white heat embossed the sentiment onto a black scrap and covered up the other sentiment with it. Clear shimmer on the flower finished off the card.
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