I recently purchased an online class from Altenew Academy called One Layer Wonders and it’s been great! The card I’m featuring here was Day Four- Building A Multi-layered Bouquet and involved some masking, drop shadows, and other fun techniques! I definitely need to buy a T-ruler so that my hand-drawn frames are even, and I definitely need to work on my shading but this was so much fun! To create this card, I stamped out Brutus Monroe‘s Conservatory of Quotes arrangement onto a piece of Bristol Smooth paper using their AWESOME Raven Surface ink! I’ve always used either Memento Tuxedo Black for my Copic-coloring or Versafine Onyx Black for all my other coloring/watercoloring but Brutus Monroe’s Raven does it all!! And it’s a deep, dark black! Oooooo….I love that!Anyway! After stamping the image, I “painted” a wash of water all around the blossoms and then using Distress Oxide inks (Iced Spruce/Worn Lipstick/Carved Pumpin/Fossilized Amber) which I’d smooshed onto my craft mat then spritzed with water, I loosely painted swashes of ink all around and over the image, letting the water move the colors. I let the panel air-dry then added some accents of color with Copic markers.When my coloring was finished I decided to put the sentiment into a hand-drawn “label”; first I stamped the sentiment directly onto the panel, drew lines around the perimeters to create the box and colored it in with a black Sharpie. I then heat-embossed the sentiment over it with white and using my gray Copics, drew “shadows” beneath it to make it appear to be lifted. Such a cool thing to do! I also used a Sharpie to draw the frame around the image and added a sprinkling of black jewels. A pretty patterned paper was attached to a vanilla card base and I mounted my top panel to finish my card. I’m really looking forward to my next class and will share that project with you soon!
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