Good Tuesday morning! My blog title represents my card technique today as well as how crazy my past week has been. My husband was admitted into the hospital last week and was discharged on Saturday. Luckily he was in the hospital where I work so that helped a little. Over the weekend I had the great pleasure of demonstrating in the Rubbernecker booth at the Orlando Stampfest. What fun I had meeting so many wonderful people. With that said I never knew my feet and back could hurt so bad. LOL!!
I was off from work on Monday and was able to play in the Technique Lovers Challenge. The challenge was to create a card with a frame that showed an image from the base layer overlapping on to the edge of the frame. I have done this many times with beach scenes and decided it would be fun to show a simple pot of greenery sitting out in a grassy garden area. I tried my hand again at the watercolor technique shown in the wonderful tutorials at Art Impressions.
I stamped the image on watercolor paper with Pumice Stone Distress Ink. Since Distress Ink is water based I can pull the color off the lines to fill in the image slightly and create the watercolor look. I added touches of Antique Linen and Vintage Photo to add shading and texture and then went back with a fine brush and dark ink to add defining lines back to the pot. I masked the pot and added foliage from my Kittie Kits Outdoor Master. I used a grass stamp to create the grassy ground base for the pot and once again pulled the color out a bit with a damp brush. I added the brown in between the grass springs for a more natural ground appearance. I used a hand cut scalloped cloud template to sponge on the light clouds in the background. I cut a watercolor paper frame using a Nestabilities die. Using the same techniques I created the ground and clouds to allow the scene to carry over on to the frame. I mounted the frame over the scene using mounting tape.
Here is a closer look at the pot of foliage.
I hope you are having a good week. I know we are all looking forward to the upcoming holiday weekend.
Stamps: Rubbernecker Create a Garden Set II 513, Kittie Kits Outdoor Master , Grass Set Paper: Watercolor, Cool Caribbean Ink: Pumice Stone, Vintage Photo, Forest Moss, Tumbled Glass
Accessories: Brush, Sponge, Nestabilities, Mounting Tape
This is awesome Kittie. How did you do it? 🙂
Kittie, your artwork is so amazing. I will never understand how such beauty comes from such simple supplies when they’re in your hands.
Hoping your husband is doing better.
Hi Kitty- I met you Sunday at Stampfest- thanks so much for spending time with us! I can’t wait to scour your blog for the flower tutorials. I’m glad your hubby is doing well and hope he’s back to his regular routine soon.I love this card- could you tell me how you got the actual blades of grass to have so much definition? That is amazing! Thanks!
Well, first I just have to say, “WOW!”. Your stamping on this one is amazing!!!! The grass/ground is so real looking… like a photograph. Since you’ve been doing tutorials lately, I think we need one on how you did that! Oh, and since I’m asking for tutorials, maybe you could share exactly how you sponge the sky. I’ve read about using a scalloped mask, but I guess I’m just dense on exactly how to move the mask around and do the sponging to make it really look like a cloudy sky. Thanks Kittie for all the inspiration you provide!! I’m so glad I found your blog.
Hope all is well with your hubby now, does sound like you were very busy…. your card is so pretty, just love how you do that technique!
And your clouds just amaze me. Such an amazing card!
So very cool Kittie…hope your sweetums is much better as well!
Wau–miten kauniita kortteja sinulla onkaan täällä–katselen ja ihailen,olet todellinen taituri–palaan uugdelleen–:))
Ihanaa kesän jatkoa sinulle<3
very pretty!
Just popping over here today to wish you “happy birthday”!
You amaze me every day I see the cards you make…I want one of ALL of them! I met you at the show and you gave me a cloud template, I love it! Keep up the beautiful work!
On weekends, I had the great pleasure to show in the booth to browse Stampfest Orlando. I had to meet so many wonderful people.
Awesome! I like to touches of old linen and vintage photo add shading and texture with a fine brush and ink.