Inspiration for the moodboard challenge for May

Inspiration for the moodboard for May.. come join in: a prize to be won at Rubber Dance! 

 This background is Ecoline (you could use any watercolor!) on photo paper! .. it makes for such beautiful backgrounds! Give it a try.. I collect photo paper from thrift stores, real cheap. I love paper; even the different brands of photo paper give very different results.

My Creative Monday for Magenta - watercolors on photopaper

Remember me doing a whole bunch of cards on photopaper; using watercolors on it?! 

I did not like the background, so painted it with a white water diluted acrylic paint. 

I heat embossed the script in white and added white with an acrylic marker as shown;  now the flowers pop. 

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Ellie Knol designs

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My Creative Monday for Magenta - photo paper technique

I share new samples of the technique today...

Haven't seen the technique? 

First part!

Second part!

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TM245 Dogwood

 

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My Creative Monday for Magenta - Glimmermist onto photo paper

I share new samples of the technique today...

Haven't seen the technique? 

First part!

Second part!

You cannot see the shimmer on these as the camera does not capture that, but I can assure you: it shimmerzzz... 

Magenta products used:

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TM245 Dogwood

TM267 Field of Flowers

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My Creative Monday for Magenta - Fluid watercolors onto photo paper part 4

I share new samples of the technique today...

Haven't seen the technique? 

First part!

Second part!

First off, just the originals after it had dried... 5 of them.. 

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AND, of course three samples of cards...

.. more to come!! 

Other stencils and other mediums too... what to think of glimmermists? .. ..to be continued.. 

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TM309 Rows of Diamonds

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My Creative Monday for Magenta - Fluid watercolors onto photo paper part 3

I share three new samples of the technique today...

 I really hope you've tried it!!

Haven't seen it? 

First part!

Second part!

I've simply added script and doodled with a white acrylic marker to define the flowers of the stencil.  

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The second one is pretty much the same...
both are from the second part of the technique.. 

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No doodling on this one... isn't it stunning?

This is the outcome of the first part of the technique.

Can you tell? I LOVE this technique!!

Magenta products used:

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Irish Blessing Quote [07.476.L]

TM267 Field of Flowers

My Creative Monday for Magenta - Fluid watercolors onto photo paper part 2

Have you seen the technique last week?
 I promised to do this as part two...

The basic technique on an ATC:

- Where we left off last week: the mask on the photo paper and all the inky colors on top of it, and seeping underneath the mask as well. 

.. to continue HOW TO BASICS:
- Now simply place a second piece of photo paper faced-down on top of it and rub gently over this pile of cardstock with the mask in between.
- Remove this second background. Now you can also remove the mask from the first one. 

- Leave to dry. 

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Another example which resulted in a card ... 

To finish it off, stamp a script with a solvent ink onto the background and add some white details with a white acrylic marker.  

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Sometimes it's even possible making a third background when there is still enough color on the mask.
First mist it with a little water. 

More to come next week Monday!! 

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I cut the edge off of this stencil, to create a mask

Maple Leaves [MC42]

 

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