Shaving Cream & Watercolor techniques with tips for success

March 20, 2023

This week I'm sharing the swap cards my Flowerbug's Team made for our March card swap. The theme was to use a technique featuring ink refills.

Each one is fabulous!

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This first card was created by Paula who used the shaving cream technique. It looks a little bit like tie dye!

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Tips on the Shaving Cream technique. It's fun but a bit messy.

Fill a container with about an inch of shaving cream. Your container should be large enough to fit the card stock you're coloring. *tip; cheap shaving cream works just fine!
Smooth out the cream. Add drops of your ink colors onto the cream. Take a knife and swirl the ink into the cream. Don't do this too much or you'll make 'muddy' colors.
Lay your card stock onto the swirled cream and press lightly. Use gloves if you don't want inky fingers.
Remover your card stock and wipe off the excess cream. Set aside to dry.
You can use regular card stock or glossy if you have it.

She used Orchid Oasis, Parakeet Party & Tahitian Tide inks and regular Basic White card stock.

She even die-cut a few corner elements for the inside of her card. These dies are from the Fabulous Frames dies seen here

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Next is a pretty card made by Ginny using the Best Day stamp set seen here. She cased a card from the Jan-June catalog. Check out the sample on page 67. This is a great reminder that there are wonderful ideas in our catalogs!

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She stamped the image on watercolor paper and colored it using our Water painters. I believe her colors include Calypso Coral, Pool Party & Daffodil Delight.

Here are a few helpful tips for successful water-coloring.

Wet your paper before you add color. Watercolor paper is THE BEST for smooth blending.
First wet only the area you want colored; blue for example. Then dip your brush in ink you've added to a block or other slick surface.
I either press my ink pad onto a clear block or add ink drops to the block or a paper plate.
Saturate your wet brush in the ink and paint color onto the previously wet area.
Let dry before adding another color that touches it or they'll bleed together.

More techniques coming tomorrow! Stop back in.

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Misty Trees Beauty of Friendship card

May 7, 2021
With each new catalog I always join several card swaps so I have lots of samples to share with my customers.

Here's one I created featuring the Beauty of Friendship Bundle.

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The colors are the new In Colors of course; Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. The background stamping is made by stamping the trees several times without reinking. This gives you several hues/generations of ink which creates a misty, grouping of trees. I love this effect with a 'naked' tree! It reminds me of my Father-in-Law who loved naked trees.

Other details:
- The greeting is stamped in Evening Evergreen ink on a 1" strip of our Vellum card stock. I immediately heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Classic (or waterbase) ink does not dry quickly on vellum so you get colored, embossing easily.
- The vellum was cut long enough to wrap around the outside edge and adhere to the back side.
- The dark tree was stamped in Evening Evergreen ink on White CS and die-cut with the Beautiful Trees dies.
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You can see this Beauty of Friendship bundle here. It's just lovely and I think it's going to be super popular!

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Pansy Petals cards kit to go; pretty & spring-like!

May 6, 2021
The new Pansy Petals designer paper is so pretty it was easy to create beautiful, eye catching cards with it.

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Here are a few reasons why I love this new Pansy Petals Designer Series Paper:
- It has three different sheets of gingham; all in the new In Colors
- There are full sheets filled with life-like pansies and pretty leaves
- The pansy dies coordinate with these flowers and leaves! No fussy cutting if you have them.
- It features each of the 5 beautiful, new In Colors!!
Anyway; this pre-cut kit to go is available through May May 18th. There is also a pdf tutorial available.

This kit includes the following:
- 1/2 pkg of Pansy Petals DSP (6" X 12")
- 2021-23 In Color jewels
- Soft Succulent ribbon
- 10 pre-cut cards; 3 of the 5 designs are fancy folds!
- the PDF tutorial including measurements, photos, supply list & step by step directions
The kit does not include pre-stamped images, adhesive or stamps. I used the Pansy Patch bundle for greetings and the dies to cut out the flowers & leaves from the DSP. You can also fussy cut them if you choose to.

*This kit will likely be mailed in early June due to a back-order on the In Color jewels.

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