Showing posts with label watercolor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label watercolor. Show all posts

Friday, 12 April 2019

Handmade Money Envelopes / Wraps using the Watercolor Embellishments

Hello guys

I want to share some envelopes and a card I made with the Little Birdie watercolor embellishments. Along with that, I am also here to share my experience of using these products with you.

The entire Watercolor range is really useful and the embellishments are specially amazing. They make life really easy when you are looking for a convenient solution without having to draw pretty sketches.


I am not a watercolor or a coloring person in general…I am always scared about coloring and shading. Its a nightmare for me to stay within the lines while coloring. So watercolors are never my go to choice and I do not have a lot of accessories and colors. But the quality of paper used are awesome…so even when I made mistakes…I can correct them. The ink doesn’t bleed or seep….even after layers of colors and water. After I finished colouring, the paper was still intact which is a sign of real good quality!


These embellishments are unique in design, self adhesive are ideal for customizing with colours of your choice. You can paint them with watercolour paints, watercolour pencils, ink washes, distress inks, markers, color splashes and more to match your projects. These are ready to use and add dimension and interest on cards, scrapbooks. journals, mixed media and more. The high quality paper has great absorbency and avoids wrapping.



For a tutorial to know how I made these please visit the ItsyBitsy blog where the challenge this month is to make anything using the new Watercolor Range. I hope you all liked my projects. I am putting this up at the following blog challenges:
  1. Addicted to stamps and more #336 - Anything Goes
  2. Allsorts Challenge Blog  Week 514- Sentiment is focus
  3. Double D Challenge - Watercolors
  4. HLS Watercolor Challenge - Anything Goes - Optional Bright
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Saturday, 15 July 2017

First attempt at Watercolor Smooshing card - For a Friend

Hello guys
I have yet bright and colorful card to bust all the blue mood due to heavy rains in Mumbai........Its raining so heavily since couple of days....I am worried the trains might stop working due to water logging very soon. Today, I was going through some of the photos I took when I was on vacation last month and saw this beautiful Lotus...So pretty and serene. I took inspiration from it and made this card.


I am putting this card up at the following challenges:
  1. SimonSaysStamp - Monday challenge - Distress it.
  2. Craft stamper Magazine - Take it Make it July
  3. Polkadoodles Week#28 - Anything Goes
  4. The Ribbon Girl - July challenge - Anything Goes
  5. Addicted to Stamps and more challenge#250 - Photo Inspiration (Got inspired by the colors in this photo)
  6. Mod Squad challenge - Make the sentiment the main focal point
  7. YNS color challenge#68 - I have used Pale pink, Bright pink and Green color.
  8. Color Throwdown #451
  9. DLART July Linky challenge
  10. DLART Thankful thursday #208 - anything Goes


So here is my new card which I have made using the smooshing technique. I have never done this technique before and it was super fun to try something new. For this card, I dabbed Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar and Twisted Citron on a clear acetate sheet and spritzed it with water. Then I smooshed this onto a watercolor cardstock cut to 4" by 51/4"and then picked the acetate sheet. I didnt have much patience to wait for it to air dry and so I used my heat gun.
Once everything was dry, I heat embossed the sentiment on the panel using Ranger Tinsel Gold. I made sure to use a anti static powder and it a must before heat embossing. Now, I cut a standard A2 size cardbase from Black Cardstock and added gold glitter cardstock on it which was 1/8" smaller than the cardbase. I then added my panel on this cardbase using strong adhesive as the panel was a little warped due to watercoloring. To add more interest to my card, I added a white frame on my card to make it look like I had framed my sentiment.
To finish my card, I added some sequins in white, iridescent clear and gold. I have made this card for my BFF as Friendship Day will be coming up next month and just wanted to start making few cards before I got too busy with work.

Supplies used:

  1. Balck Cardstock (270gsm) - ItsyBitsy
  2. Gold Glitter Cardstock - ItsyBitsy
  3. Watercolor cardstock
  4. Distress inks - Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar and Twisted Citron - ItsyBitsy
  5. Sequins 
  6. White cardstock (250gsm) - ItsyBitsy
  7. Versamark watermark inkpad
  8. Wow Heat gun
  9. Ranger multi medium matte
  10. Ranger heat embossing powder - Tinsel Gold
  11. Kaisercraft - Best Friends stamp set
  12. Clear Acetate Sheet - ItsyBitsy
  13. Anti static powder tool