Welcome to Day 4 of
Release Countdown Week, we're crossing over the hump on our way to the release of fabby new products from
My Favorite Things! Definitely check in at the MFT Blog daily for complete countdown highlights.
I'm featuring a fun technic-y card today using
MFT Dye Inks and the
Centerpieces You Mean the World to Me Die-namics. I've had so much fun with this centerpiece, both last month and again today.
I'd seen a video by
Laura Bassen featuring this watercolor technic and am pleased as punch that I gave it a whirl (thanks, Laura). Simply smoosh your acrylic block into desired stamp pad (color), spritz with water and press down over your embossed image.
I have to tell you that I originally clear embossed the
globe and then went in and re-embossed (is that a word?) it in gold because the clear/white didn't pop enough against the bold, bright colors of those
MFT Dye Inks. Check out the bottom of my post for a complete list of colors used.
Inside is kind of a watercolor matched look to the card front, and here's how I did it. I smooshed my ink pads onto an acrylic block and then used the ink to water color in the negative spaces of the sentiment portion of the
Centerpieces World Die-namics with a tiny paint brush.
After removing the 'stencil', the sentiment wasn't quite bold enough with the water coloring alone, so I repositioned the stencil over top and traced each letter using a fine tip black marker. I hope that made sense!
I hope you'll step out of your comfort zone and try a new technic, I'm sure glad I did! See you back here tomorrow for another fun day of
Release Countdown with
MFT!
~Amy
Release Countdown products will be available for sale Tuesday, June 10th at 10pm EST.
Hi Amy! A) Google isn't sending out your posts to your email subscribers. B) This is such an interesting die of the world. I miss your posts. Hope they get it worked out soon! Cause I love your card making goodness.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads up Paulette. I'll look into it.
DeleteWOWZERS! This water color card is absolutely AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteLove the background with this die.
ReplyDeleteLove this beatutiful water colour card!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis card looks absolutely stunning. Love the watercolour look especially with those vibrant colours.
ReplyDeleteOH My!! Love this amazing card!! I am so excited you are releasing this die!!! Watercolor is stunning!
ReplyDeleteYou had much better luck with this technique than I did, Amy =] Love this die and wouldn't it be grand if I won the give-away to buy it? =]
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing =]
Love the watercoloring! Will have to try this soon! Great card!
ReplyDeleteOh wow!! So creative! This is awesome!
ReplyDeleteSo cute and fabulous. The colors are so vibrant!
ReplyDeleteThis card is cool! I love how the world turned out with the watercolored background! Thanks for sharing the tip you found! I am loving watercolors at the moment too!
ReplyDeleteGreat card. Gold works really well on the card.
ReplyDeletewow the colors are so lively, great combo for color choices. thank you for sharing
ReplyDeleteShut up!!! Do you know how brilliant this is!!!
ReplyDeleteShut up!!! Do you know how brilliant this is!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm so taken by your coloring. What an inspiration.
ReplyDeletewhat an artistic card, is so amazing!
ReplyDeleteI love your golden world and bright watercolor background.
ReplyDeleteAmy, this is COOL!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool background, love it!!!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh - this just took my breath away!! I am sooooo excited to see that you used the MFT/Colorbox inks to do that technique! I tried it with Distress inks, but I so love the vibrancy of the MFT/Colorbox inks and would much prefer to use them!! Absolutely amazing, chica!!
ReplyDeleteLove the watercolor background
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