Magenta Super Saturday - One Image, Three Cards

Welcome back to my blog.  I had so much fun making these cards.  I stamped and painted one large image then cut it into three pieces to create three cards.  You can also see my cards on the Magenta blog here. 

I stamped the Floral Background stamp onto a piece of Stonehenge Aqua Coldpress black watercolor paper with VersaMark ink, then embossed with gold embossing powder.  

I taped the piece to a board  to keep the paper flat while I painted the flowers, leaves and berries.  I used Iuile watercolors that I found on the Etsy website.  If you follow Kristina Werner, you may have seen her use these watercolors on a Christmas card (which you can see here) or a Valentine card (which you can see here.)  I am in love with the rich colors and beautiful shine of these paints. 

Iuile makes these great dot cards with very generous samples of many colors and they are very reasonably priced.  There’s more than enough paint on a card to do several projects so you can definitely try these before you decide to purchase the larger sizes.  You can see Iuile’s Etsy store here.  

After I completed the painting, I let the piece dry thoroughly.  The watercolor paper I used is kind of delicate and to get a clean cut you need to use dies or a guillotine cutter.

I used the small stitched square dies from Gina K’s Master Layout set #4 cut out two 2 3/8” squares from one side of the image.  Then I used guillotine cutter to cut a strip 1 5/8” x 5”.    I cut pieces of coordinating solid color cardstock to mat each of the images.  I also cut cream cardstock – 3 ¼” x 4 ½” for the square images and 3 ¾” x 5” for the vertical piece. 

I stamped the sentiments and embossed the images on the cream cardstock (gold embossing powder for the happy birthday, clear embossing powder for the other two cards.)  

I positioned (but didn’t attach) each painted image on a piece of cream cardstock.  I wanted to add a bit of interest to the cream cardstock so I used VersaMark ink to stamp the small flower petal from the Petal Blossoms set a few times around the image and sentiment, then lightly brushed on Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls. 

I adhered the cream cardstock onto pieces of solid cardstock, adhered the painted images and then adhered everything to an A2 card. 

Thanks for visiting my blog today. 

Magenta Products Used

07.588.J - It's the Little Moments

07.817.H - May the Love

07.975.I - Happy Birthday - Large

14.660.R - Floral Background

Cset46 - Petal Blossoms 

Other Products Used

Iuile Watercolor Paint

Gina K Designs Master Layout Set #4

VersaMark Ink

VersaFine Black Onyx Ink

Spring Flowers

Welcome back to my blog and Magenta Super Saturday.  It was a very wet, gray January in the Pacific Northwest so I decided to use my Copic markers to create a card with some bright spring flowers.  You can also see my card on the Magenta blog here. 

One of my favorite techniques is to stamp an image in my stamp positioner, color it with colored pencils, then restamp it and emboss with embossing powder.  The embossing redefines the stamped image and really makes it pop.  You can see an example of that technique here.  I decided to use the same technique on today’s card, except I colored my image with Copic markers instead of pencils. 

First, I used my stamp positioner to stamp the image using Gina K. Amalgam Black ink (which is Copic friendly), then began coloring.  I used G07, Nile Green and YG41, Pale Cobalt Green for the leaves.  For the berries I used R08 Vermillion.  I used four different sets of colors for the flowers.  For the purple flowers I used V04, Lilac and V06 Lavender.  For the pink flowers I used RV14, Begonia Pink and RV06, Cerise.  The yellow flowers were colored with Y35, Maize and Y38 Honey and the orange flowers were done with YR07, Cadium Orange and R05, Salmon Red.  I colored the centers of the flowers with R37, Carmine.

After the coloring was complete, I returned the image to my stamp positioner and stamped with VersaMark ink, then embossed with clear embossing powder.  Next, I stamped the sentiment with the same black ink and die cut it with a stitched circle die.  I cut a slightly larger circle from So Silk Beauty Pink and adhered the white circle on top.  I adhered another piece of So Silk Beauty Pink to the front of an A2 card.  I trimmed the colored image to 4” x 5 ¼”, wrapped it with some gold twine, then adhered it to the front of the card.  I added a piece of fun foam to the back of the circle then placed it on top of the gold thread.  For the last step I added some glossy accents to the berries and the flower centers. 

Thanks for visiting my blog today. 

Magenta Products Used:  

14.660.R - Floral Background

07.869.D - Thinking of You

Other Products Used:

Gina K. Amalgam Black Ink

VersaMark Ink

Judikins Clear Embossing Powder

Copic Markers