I'd been wanting to play with my Color Burst again. I used one
color - Merlot - though it looks like several when you add water! I tried sprinkling the Color Burst & some Perfect
Pearls on heavy watercolor paper, then spritzing with water and a sheer
shimmer sparkle spray. That turned out pretty, but darker than I had
been thinking I wanted & the Perfect Pearls didn't blend in as well as I had hoped.
A
bunch of colored water had run off the first project onto my craft
sheet, so I took more watercolor paper and laid it on top to pick up
color. I kept diluting the remaining colored water with shimmer spray
& laying papers on top, getting progressively lighter shades.
Finally, I tried pouncing the color from the craft mat onto
the watercolor paper with a make-up sponge. That gave a much softer
look - especially since it was also the most dilute.
After all were dry I stamped & heat embossed several
images with fine white powder. I used stamps from two HOTP stamp sets - Lacy Things and Tags & Trims. To get the look of lace running beneath
the roses, I first heat embossed the roses. Then stamped the lace &
added powder. With a small brush, I removed any powder that was on top
of the original heat embossed area before heat embossing again.
The card at the top of this post was made from the very first watercolor paper I had prepared, and the inside paper is the next one. The tag & extra rose on the front are from some paper somewhere in the middle of my process and you can see it's a bit lighter. Here's the inside:
I made another card from the lightest one's created. You can see how different it looks. Even though the same materials were used to color it, they were much more dilute, so the color is much more pastel.
I added a touch of darker pink with an alcohol ink pen. Here's the inside of this one:
I hadn't intended to add the panel on the left side, but when I decided to outline the front in the darker pink, it bled through - this was my solution.
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