Tag: coloring with distress paints

Autumn Blessings / Fall Theme Day 2

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Happy Friday, everyone!

Here is the second day of the mini-series fall inspired cards. For today’s project I pulled out some old dies & color mediums that I barely used and had a lot of fun making this card:)

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I started by die-cutting some leaves and the pumpkin out of cream cardstock and used my distress paints to quickly add color to them. Coloring with distress paint has to be the fastest way to add color onto die cuts:) I also used several distress inks to add a bit of shading here and there.

Once my die cuts were all dried, I created my card base out of cream cardstock that I just looove. This particular one is from Simon Says Stamp and it is my favorite cardstock from their collection. Simply gorgeous! I used a stripe stamp and embossed it with gold powder right on the front of my card. Next I scattered some splashes of gold paint with a brush and glued down the leaves and the pumpkin.

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As you can see, I added some white splashes onto my pumpkin, just because I needed a bit of contrast close to the leaves and also stamped the sentiment right on top. Of course, to finish all up, I added a couple of sequins that I chose in the same colors of my layout.

I really like how it turned out, and most of all I am sooo happy I could play with my distress paints! 🙂

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You can watch the how-to video right below or HERE on my Youtube channel!

Thx for stopping by and see you soon with a new project!

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Adding Color Onto Colored Cardstock / Video

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Hello!

I am so excited to share my card with you today. I just got this new stamp set by Simon Says Stamp and I sooo love it. I don’t know what it is about this stamp set, it is quite simple you know, but I just adore it!

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The first time I saw it, it was used by Shari Caroll in one of her videos and I liked it so so much that i just had to have it! Couldn’t wait to color these beautiful flowers, so I played around with various mediums and the one technique that I really liked was using Distress paints onto colored cardstock.

In the end I chose some kraft cardstock, stamped the flowers and colored them in with two of the paints that I have, the Squeezed Lemonade and Cracked Pistacchio. Oh, and how beautiful these colors are! And they blend so nicely with eachother also.

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I used a aqua brush, but with no water inside, just because it was the only one that I had with such a fine tip. When my paint got too dry I just dipped the tip of the brush and picked up just a tiny bit of water to help me spread the color around.

Once all the flowers were done, I colored the centers with my white gel pen and stamped a couple more of those flower centers onto my background.

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I then used another lovely stamp set by SSS to create that black and white strip and also the sentiment that I stamped and embossed onto a vellum circle. To add a bit of shine to the flowers, I of course used the Wink of Stella glitter brush marker and added also a couple fo clear sequins.

To mount my panel I used craft foam to the back and adhesive tape to adhere it onto my card base.

I so like the final result and how these paints dry so intense onto colored cardstock! Will try this technique onto some watercolor paper also as I saw how nicely these paints blend together.

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This was my project for today, I will add my card to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, called For the Love of Plants. Such gorgeous projects there, you might want to take a look:)

Thank you for joining me today!