Yesterday was Mother's Day so we had a houseful of mothers whom we were honoring ... especially my 86 year old mother-in-law who is the mother of 6! Only one of our 4 children were here to celebrate with us, but all three of our boys remembered to call. It made my day!
Since it was a busy day I wasn't able to get the cards from Saturday's Floral Class ready for posting until today. The class featured a new to stamping watercoloring technique. In the world of watercolor
painting the technique is known as "Floating Watercolors". Crystal French, the Stampin' Up! demonstrator who adapted it and applied it to rubber stamping, has named it "Reinker Spread". The technique was originally done on Shimmery White card stock (pg.156), but can also be done on Watercolor Paper or Glossy White Paper (also on pg.156). We used Glossy White Paper for our cards. The cards also feature the flowers from the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set (pg106) and Tea Party Designer Series Paper (pg.161). Two of the cards were CASEd (the acronym for Copy And Steal Everything!) from other demonstrators... except for the colors. The choice of greeting was left up to each class participant since
Mother's Day, birthday, wedding, anniversary, Get Well, Thinking of You and Friendship are all approriate for the cards.
The pink version of the first card (shown above) was done using Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose... and the Stampin' Up! Exclusive Big Shot Little Leaves Sizzlet (pg.200). The purple version was created with Perfect Plum and Pale Plum... and the Stampin' Up! Exclusive Big Shot Sweet Stem Embosslit (pg.202). The purple version also uses paper from the Bella Birds Designer Series Paper (pg.160) because it was a better match to the plum colors.
The second card was originally done in pink... and the Stampin' Up! Exclusive Textured Impressions Manhattan Flower Die on vellum. I substitued yellows (Barely Banana, Apricot Appeal, Summer Sun and So Saffron) for the pinks... and glossy white card stock (pg.156) for the vellum. The "Get Well" is from Sincere Salutations (pg.135).
The third card was created from the smaller flower images in the Fifth Avenue Floral set. I let the class participants select their choice of paper from the Tea Party DSP collection since some of the color combinations were different. We also used the Scallop Oval Punch (pg. 8 of the Holiday mini), Large Oval Punch (pg.184), Scallop Edge Punch (pg.184/185) and Short & Sweet stamp set (pg.137).
We had so much fun with the watercolor technique that we decided to create more flowers instead of doing the fourth card. All class participants went home with lots of finished flowers so that they could create even more cards.
I challenge everyone to try the technique with other stamp sets... and share them with me! I look forward to seeing your creations!
Happy Stamping~
Mia
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