Hello everyone! Betsy here sharing with you this softly painted rose card using the Sketched Florals Rose Stamp Set. I love painting images like this and I used Distress Ink to paint it! Let me show you how I made my card!
I heat embossed my image in gold onto sparkle watercolor paper from Paul Ruebens (Amazon). I love this paper as it gives just a hint of sparkle in the light. I started painting and did the leaves first.
I flooded each leaf with water and then picked up the ink colors from a palette I was using. I used 4 colors for the leaves and 4 colors for the flowers.
I wanted this to be soft and springy so my colors really are not bright, but soft. I flooded each part of the petals, put in my lightest color and then added shadows with the darker colors finally fading to the lightest color.
Once the painting was finished, I splattered it with gold paint. Then I cut my panel down to 3 1/2″ x 5″. I trimmed a piece of gold shimmer card stock and embossed it with a geometric pattern to go behind it. I also heat embossed a sentiment using the Birds of a Feather Stamp Set. I trimmed it out and used a gold metallic ink pad along the edges. I did this for the watercolored panel as well. I chose a soft pink for the A2 size top folding card base.
I’ve had the butterfly embellishment in my stash for a long time…like years! But it looked really nice on this card. It is metal so this will have to be a hand delivered card. I was actually going to put a bow here and that would have looked really nice but I liked the butterfly better. I adhered my layers together and my card was finished!
I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s tutorial.
Til next time…
Betsy