Good Morning friends, Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Today’s project’s I made for a recent Splitcoast Stampers challenge ways to use it – watercolour backgrounds. Remember my previous post Faux Brushos with Crushos and those super fun results with the watercolour backgrounds, today I will show you how I utilized some of those backgrounds to create some fun cards.
For this card I used one of my newer dies from Susan’s Garden and a new Kaisercraft Quarters template. I played with some texture paste on a piece of 100% primed cotton canvas and some watercolours to create a background layer. This layer was still quite floppy and I wanted to mount this on 3D foam adhesive, so I simply strengthened it by adhering a piece of stiff cardboard to the back.
I stamped some leafy stems and die cut 3 flowers from the watercolour backgrounds (the baby wipes), folded them in half and adhered the Calyx: Sepal to it (cut from black cardstock) and stippled some Anther (tiny black and white dots) around it. To finish the flower I cut two sized leaves from a different colour watercolour background. The sentiment looked a little fuzzy when I stamped it, because of the texture from the canvas but I actually don’t mind how it turned out. I deepened the bottom half of the s