Thursday, February 5, 2015

Little Tangles Challenge - Guest Designing!

Good morning! I was super excited a few weeks ago to get an email from Heather over at Little Tangles inviting me to play along with the new challenge as Guest Designer. I was super thrilled - especially since the new challenge is one of my very favorite techniques - watercolors!


I ended up making two cards with one of my favorite recently Neat and Tangled sets, Origami Map designed by the lovely Miriam Prantner. First up, a bold and somewhat masculine watercolor card!


For this one, I used MFT dye ink to do my watercoloring - they work beautifully! I stamped my map in a slightly darker blue, then smooshed the lighter blue on my non-stick mat and picked up the color with my waterbrush. I love how this gives a tone on tone effect! I stamped my sentiment and heat embossed on a thin strip of black cardstock, and added a few Crystal Clear sequins to finish it off (and cover up a little mistakenly dripped bit of blue on the bottom!) :)


Next up, I went with a totally bright and bold card using my Peerless watercolors and adding in the use of the new matching Origami Map Die!


First - I just have to say I LOVE this die! It is so perfect with the stamp - love how well everything lines up! I stamped and heat and embossed the map image in white, then softly watercolored it in. Added a bolder wash of the yellow, with a bit of orange mixed in on the background, then mounted the front part with foam adhesive over the top. The sentiment was a perfect fit for this bright and bold card - I heat embossed it on vellum, then attached it with a tiny bit of glue from my Zig 2 way glue pen - it dries very clear and doesn't show, so I love to use it for gluing down vellum!


Thanks for stopping by! Hope you will go play along at Little Tangles - I'm looking forward to seeing your Watercolor creations!

5 comments:

  1. Oh I just LOVE these! You really made the set shine, especially that second card, the bold yellows, fantastic!

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  2. Wow! These are both great cards, I really love the watercolor paired with this origami style, they just seem to go together!

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  3. 1 stamp and 2 ways! Love both of great Masculine creations and my fave one is bold yellow!

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  4. Unique stamp and
    love the coloring
    on the cards.
    Carla from Utah

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  5. Unique stamp and
    love the coloring
    on the cards.
    Carla from Utah

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