Our theme this month for the Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop is a ‘Water colour Challenge’ by Julia and I am using the Simply Zinnias Bundle by Stampin’ Up!®. The Simply Zinnias Bundle is part of Flowering Zinnias Suite Collection in the Online Exclusives.
Zinnias are beautiful and vibrant flowers, so I have tried to replicate with in my water colour flowers.
How to….
- Flowers & Leaves
- Using the Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper, I cut 3 sheets in half and coloured each sheet in a different colour. The bottles of Reinkers are the best to use for this technique as you may require a few drops of colour to get the depth of colour you want. Work with one sheet and one colour at a time, wet the sheet of water colour paper generously with a spray bottle of water. With a water painter add ink to the wet surface and let the colour spread. Don’t worry if the colour isn’t even, you want it to have texture – light and dark areas. Tilt the paper so the ink flows all over the paper, add more colour if you want more depth. I used the same technique in another card earlier in the year – Paper Florist Dies.
- Once the water colour paper is dry die cut flowers and leaves.
- The colours I used are..
- Sweet Sorbet
- Daffodil Delight
- Orchid Oasis
- Granny Apple Green
- Mossy Meadow
- The flower centers & stamen I cut from cardstock – Basic Black, Sweet Sorbet, Daffodil Delight and Orchid Oasis. The stamenn I also brushed with Wink of Stella for a bit of sparkle.
- Adhere all the flowers together and set aside.
- Zinnia 3D Embossing Folder
- The Basic White card front I embossed with the Zinnia 3D Embossing Folder. This is a stunning embossing folder of zinnia flowers and leaves in a outline image. This just gives some texture behind the flowers and the impression of the flowerbed of Zinnias.
- Sentiment
- The sentiment I used the Sweetly Scripted Stamp set and stamped the Happy Birthday in Memento Tuxedo Black.
- Card Insert
- The card insert I stamped with the Zinnia flower stamp in Memento Tuxedo Black in the bottom right corner
- The insert was matted with Basic Black cardstock
Measurements Used
| Colour | Imperial/Letter | Metric/A4 | |
| Card Base | Basic White Thick | 4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½” | 10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm |
| Card Mat | Basic Black | 4 x 5¼” | 10 x 14.4cm |
| Card Front | Basic White | 3⅞ x 5⅛ | 9.7 x 14.1cm |
| Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper | 3 sheets cut in half | ||
| Flower Centers | Basic Black | 2 x 2” | 5 x 5cm |
| Flower Stamen | Sweet Sorbet, Orchid Oasis Daffodil Delight | 1 x 1” each colour | 3 x 3cm each colour |
| Sentiment | Basic White | ¾ x 4” | 2 x 10cm |
| Insert Mat | Basic Black | 4 x 5¼” | 10 x 14.4cm |
| Insert | Basic White | 3⅞ x 5⅛ | 9.7 x 14.1cm |
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Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop
Welcome to Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Australian Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges.
This month Julia has given us this Water Colour Challenge to play with
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