Merry Christmas to everyone celebrating today!
December arrived so quickly, bringing the Valentine's 2020 Collection filled with beautiful hearts and flowers. Hello, Jean Okimoto here with a simple watercolored design from the new collection - and a faux-splatter technique.
Spritz the smoother side of watercolor paper with a fine mist of water. Paint it a pale, watery pink - I used a diluted Kaleidacolor dye ink refill. Heat-set it - from both sides to minimize curling.
Stamp the large Friendship Floral Heart with VersaFine Onyx Black. Quickly emboss it with detail clear powder. Watercolor the flowers, leaves and berries. Heat-set it again.
Cover the entire heart with the Poppystamps Snowspeckle Wide Washi Tape. It's a versatile tape with a soft translucent shimmer - and white specks. It resembles random splatters of white paint, water or bleach. These amazing little white spots landed exactly where I wanted them to - unlike the wayward, wonkly splatters I usually end up with. Cut it with the largest Double Stitch Loving Heart Cut Out. Cut the front panel of a gray 5-½" square card with the same die.
Paint the smooth side of a watercolor paper scrap pink. Heat-set the ink and stamp "be happy" from the new Big and Little Valentine's Clear Stamps with a clean VersaMark inkpad. Heat-emboss it with detail clear powder, set it aside to cool. Brush Slate Gray Kaleidacolor Dye Ink over it with a slightly damp wide paintbrush. The embossed greeting will resist the dye ink and match the Friendship Floral Heart.
Assemble the card - use foam dots for the greeting. Add ¼" punched circles of pink glittered cardstock.
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and will try these techniques on holiday thank-yous and Valentine designs.
Thanks for visiting - see you again tomorrow!
Double Stitch Loving Heart Cut Out
Friendship Floral Heart Clear Stamps Set
Big and Little Valentine's Clear Stamps Set
Poppystamps Snowspeckle Wide Washi Tape
This is a gorgeous design, I would never have guessed the splatters were from washi. Merry Christmas everyone!
Posted by: Andre M. | 12/25/2019 at 06:31 PM
How nice that you have posted some Valentine cards ideas early so we can get started on making them! Thanks, Jean!
Posted by: Jacky | 12/28/2019 at 02:19 PM