Smile: Watercolour roses

On a whim I signed up for the interactive Clear and Sheer class from Online Card Classes; I’ve always stuck to the self-paced classes before. It will be interesting to see everyone else’s creations at the same time as making my own.

How:

I started by stamping the rose twice with Versamark and heat embossing it with fine white embossing powder. Then I loosely watercoloured the roses, adding a very pale blue background and a blue outline around the main rose. I used some of the silver paint to create some fine splatters over everything.

I die cut a banner from vellum and the smile sentiment from a scrap of silver card. I worked out where I wanted the banner to sit on the panel and used a paper piercer to create an even line of holes through both the vellum and the watercolour paper, then I hand-sewed the two together with some silver thread.

After gluing the silver smile to the vellum and hiding a couple of dots of glue on the back of the vellum behind the letters to stop it flapping around too much, I attached the whole panel to the card base.

Class:

Online Card Classes – Clear and Sheer

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Simply Cards & Papercraft – beautiful rose
• dies:
  Avery Elle – dotted elle-ments
  Impression Obsession – smile
• inks:
  Versamark
• embossing powder:
  Wow! – super fine – white
• colour:
  Gansai Tambi watercolours – 34, 36, 51, 95
• paper and card:
  Papermill Direct – luxury artist watercolour paper
  Papermill Direct – plain – dark violet
  Pergamano parchment paper 150gsm
  silver card scraps
• miscellaneous:
  silver thread