My original plan for this week’s Facebook Live only involved watercoloring. Then I got distracted by a beautiful paper collection that I had bought in August…and forgot about! It is the Wonder of the Season Specialty Designer Paper. See my projects below…
My watercoloring is limited to a simple splash of color (Just Jade and Gorgeous Grape) on these cards, CASEd from Lauren Alarid. I’m a beginner when it comes to watercoloring, but my background wash technique is greatly improved because we now have a wide brush in our set of three Water Painters. I used Shimmery White cardstock, and I could cover a large area with just a few strokes.
I love that the trees in this bundle (In the Pines) can be a focal point, or a background.
Moving on to the Wonder of the Season Specialty Designer Paper, you can see right away what makes it so special – the embossed red and gold sides! Even the black and white sides make a great background.
I stamped the trees in the background with Mossy Meadow, and they have gold highlights from the paper. It’s an easy card to make – don’t forget to cut the gold foil trees from your gold foil mat to save foil! The greeting is from the Dove of Hope stamp set.
This is the “red foil version” of the previous card. We have red and green foil available in the Mini Catatlog. I used Shaded Spruce for my trees to coordinate with the ribbon, and a red foil label cut with a die from the Ornate Layers collection.
So of course I needed a “green foil version” to complete the set. The trees would have worked again, but I was anxious to cut the green foil with the Wreath Builder dies. The stamps are from the coordinating Arrange a Wreath stamp set.
I hope this is a good reminder that you can stamp on that beautiful designer paper! We have so many collections that are good for stamping.
This post is meant as a supplement to last night’s Facebook Live. Please click here to see the video – and please join the Buckeye Inklings Stampers Group on Facebook to get notifications of all of my live videos.
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