Color the Wild Rose Stem with Stenciled Distress Oxides by Jean Okimoto

The bold, beautiful Wild Rose Stem is easy to watercolor - and even easier to stencil for a watercolored look. Chose your favorite Distress Oxides and stencil them onto the stamped and embossed image for a super-quick and easy design. Hi, Jean Okimoto here with a simple technique card for spring.

Stamp the flowers - from the Wild Rose Stem Clear Stamps and Dies Set - on the smoother side of Memory Box Open Studio Watercolor Paper with Onyx Black VersaFine. Heat-emboss it with detail clear powder. Cut medium or heavyweight vellum with the matching die. Vellum retains a crisp edge and doesn't absorb the stenciled inks.

Stencil the image with Distress Oxides - worn lipstick, mowed lawn, bundled sage and squeezed lemonade. Blend the inks with a damp paintbrush or waterbrush - make it look less stenciled, more watercolored! Heat-set it, then diecut it.

Cut a 5-3/4" x 2-¾" strip of the pale green Springtime Bouquet Stripes and Dots 6x6 paper. Score, cut and fold a 6-¼" x 3-½" card of Berry Blush cardstock.

Paint the smoother side of Memory Box watercolor paper with a light layer of worn lipstick Distress Oxide. Dry the ink. Stamp the greeting - also from the Wild Rose Stem set - with Onyx Black. Emboss it with detail clear powder. Trim it.

Trim the top and bottom right corners of the card and green striped piece and greeting strip wih a corner rounder Assemble the card - use foam dots for the greeting. Accent the flowers with dots of Open Studio Buttercup Glitter Glue.

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