Watercolor W/Oxide Inks - Precious Peony

 

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Today I will be creating a card using Distress Oxide Inks as my watercolor medium. I love the ease of watercoloring with Oxide Inks and the wide variety of colors available. I will be using a beautiful floral image from Altenew for my watercoloring and for some added interest on my card, I will be adding layers and texture with products from Pinkfresh Studio. The greeting and sentiment comes from Penny Black and is one of my favorite sentiment sets! I love that the greetings are separate from the sentiments allowing colored stamping to separate the two. I find this is a great way to tie in the colors and gives a unique look to the card. Let's get started!!

I will be doing all of my work today on my Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat.

To start, I take a piece of Watercolor Cardstock and place it into my MISTI Stamp Positioner and prep the panel with my Anti Static Powder Tool. Taking an image from the Precious Peony Stamp Set I ink it up with Versamark Ink and stamp it on to the panel. Because of the texture of the cardstock, I end up inking and stamping this image three times to get good coverage. I then add Silver Embossing Powder and heat set with my Heat Tool.

Using the white area of my Glass Mat, I press Milled Lavender Distress Oxide Ink and Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Ink onto the glass. This will become the palette for my coloring. Using a Water Brush filled with clean water, I wet one of the petals of the bigger flower then pick up some Milled Lavender Distress Oxide Ink from my palette and add it to the base of the petal and blend it out towards the end leaving the very tip of the petal white. I then brush my Water Brush onto a paper towel to remove the ink. I move onto the other petals by first wetting then adding Milled Lavender Distress Oxide Ink to the base and blend out. I repeat this process for each petal on both flowers as well as the buds. *To darken or intensify the color, you could go back and add another layer of ink if you prefer. 

Moving on to my second color, I pick up Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Ink with my Water Brush and add to the base of the petal then pull out and blend towards the end. I'm careful not to completely cover the first color, I like to have a couple of colors showing which gives a nice watercolored look as well as light shadows. I also like to tap my brush over the color after laying it down to give it a little texture. 

After I add my second color to each petal of the first flower, I go back and add more of the Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Ink to the base of each flower as well as the areas where petals may overlap. This helps to create depth, dimension and shadows. I then repeat this process for the other flower and buds.

For the leaves, I add Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide Ink to the base of each leaf with my Water Brush then blend and fade out towards the end. 

I then add Peeled Paint to the base of each leaf and blend out, being careful not to completely cover up the previous color. Again, you could add another layer of color to darken the shade if desired. This finishes my coloring and I set the panel aside to dry.

Next, I cut a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" out of White Cardstock using my Tim Holtz Guillotine Paper Trimmer. Using Purple Tape I adhere the #1 stencil from the Diamond Plaid Stencil Set over my panel. Using my Blender Brush, I blend Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Ink over the stencil design areas. I keep my blending on the lighter side as I am looking to add a soft texture to my background, I am not going for a full solid blend. 

I now take the #2 stencil from the Diamond Plaid Stencil Set and line it up over my panel. I then add Purple Tape to adhere the stencil to the panel and tape it down to my work surface. I again lightly blend Pumice Stone Distress Oxide Ink with my Blender Brush over the stencil design areas.

To create a frame for my card I use biggest die from the Stitched Scallop Rectangles Die Set and cut out of White Cardstock three times, running them through my Big Shot Die Cut Machine. This die has actually two cuts! I love the options this die gives, however, I wanted the scallops on both sides of the frames. To achieve this, I flip one set of frames over and nest them together. I then take some thin washi tape from my stash and place it along where the frames join together, I now have my frames connected. I now begin to stack and glue the other two sets of die cut frames to the top using Liquid Glue so that my frame is now three layers thick.

Going back to my watercolored image, I take the coordinating Precious Peony Die, line it up over my image and hold it in place using Purple Tape and run them through my Big Shot.

To stamp a greeting for my card, I place my blended panel into my MISTI and layout my frame and die cut to figure out my stamp placement. I then take a greeting from the Million Thanks Stamp Set and line it up on my panel. I remove the frame and die cut then ink up my stamp with Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Ink and stamp it twice onto my panel to get a nice crisp image. I then take a sentiment from the Million Thanks Stamp Set and stamp it with Versafine Clair Nocturn Ink just under the greeting. 

To add a little more texture to the panel and my die cut, I take a small paintbrush and add a little water to my leftover Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Ink on my Glass Mat and splatter onto my panel and die cut.

Next, I place a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of White Cardstock into my Scor Buddy and score it at 4 1/4" creating a side folding card base. I then use Double Sided Tape and adhere my panel onto the card base.

I then add Liquid Glue to the back of my frame and mount it onto the card base. To adhere my floral die cut I add Foam Tape to the area that will sit on the panel and add Liquid Glue to the areas that will sit on the frame then attach it to the card front. 

To finish, I use my Jewel Picker and add Water Droplets with Liquid Glue and this completes my card.

I hope you enjoyed today's card! I had fun playing around with some new (to me) product and love the way this card turned out!! I haven't watercolored for a while so that was fun, and pairing it with the scallop frames I thought balanced it out well. I wanted to keep this card soft but thought the background needed just a little something. These stencils were exactly the look I was going for, not too much just enough to break up the stark background (it is even softer in person). Don't forget, Oxide inks are fabulous for stamping too!!!

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Jeannie