Faux Batik Card

Here's the card that was published (!) in Crafts 'n' Things (http://www.craftsnthings.com/) in the Design Focus section. I'd submitted a card for the design focus using mulberry paper. I just heard back from them that I'm allowed to post this here.

Here's the tutorial on splitcoast that I followed to get the look.

I stamped the fern with Versamark and clear embossed it. Then I added colours in random patches with watercolor wonder crayons and a damp foam brush. Then I removed the embossing powder with an iron and scrap paper. The sentiment is embossed as well for texture, and the punched fern is one I had in my stash so I don't remember who the maker of the punch is. This was a fun card to make and I'll be trying this technique again. There are so many possibilities! I just need to expand my selection of solid-image stamps since I tend to be drawn to the line art ones since I love colouring so much.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies: Stamps: Monkey Paw Fern - Rubber Stampede, Sunshine in the heart... - Friend to Friend by Stampin' Up; Ink: turquoise pigment - Colorbox, versamark - Tsukineko; Paper: blue metallic paper, white mulberry tissue, elegant eggplant, taken with teal, whisper white; Other: clear embossing powder, rhinestone brad, fern punch, watercolor wonder crayons, foam brush.

Easter Egg Jumbo Card

I made this card a bit before Easter, but couldn't quite bring myself to send it off. Am I bad or what!!! I tell myself that it's because I want to show the people in the class I'm teaching on Friday another example of the technique, but that's not really the whole truth.

Time to get to the card, which is all about the background. I started with chalk inks in two colours, and added the leafy swirl in several colours of pigment ink. I heat set it and added the Easter Eggs, coloured them with markers, and clear embossed over all the eggs. I then added a third colour of chalk ink over top and removed the clear embossing powder and stamped the sentiment stamp and embossed it in black. For the focal image, I heat embossed the same egg in black and coloured it with Tombow markers on watercolour. It's mounted on a square panel stamped with "Easter Blessings). I finished the whole card off with some framing lines and acrylic paint dots.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies: Stamps: Easter Egg - The Artful Stamper, "Play laugh, etc." - A Muse, swirl - Heather's Stamping Haven, Easter Blessings - Magenta; Ink: colorbox fluid chalk (cadmium yellow, jade, lime pastel), pigment ink; Paper: watercolour, PTI white, basic black, so saffron; Other: espresso Adirondack acrylic paint - Ranger, Tombow markers, stylus and foam tip, clear and black embossing powder.