Floral Friendship with Joy Clair Designs

 

I'm back today with more inspiration from Joy Clair Designs!

This lovely set is called:

Floral Friendship

I just love this digistamp set.  The flowers are lovely and being able to

position them any way you want is such a luxury!!!!!!

I wanted to make a mini slimline card.  I love this size as it is elongated

like a regular slimline, but not as much real estate to cover.

Let me show you how I made my card!

I started by composing my design in the computer and printing it out

onto hot press watercolor paper.

My printer is an HP Inkjet 8035.  Even though it's inkjet, if I leave the print out

for a while, or gently take my heat tool to it, the ink will not smear with water.

I used Albrecht Durer Watercolor Pencils from Faber-Castel.  I love these pencils

and the intense color you can get from them.

I started with the flowers first.  Notice my coloring is not too precise.

I also color in all of my colors at once.  I can add later, but I seem to have

more success with the entire process if all of my colors are in at the beginning.

I will go in later with more color and lift color in some places.

Although the blue/purple shades are warm colors, the extra warmth of

the green makes the blue appear cooler, thus giving the piece a look

of high contrast.

You can go back over with more color or take clean clear water with whatever

brush you are using and lift color quite easily.

Albrecht Durer colors used:

Green: 167, 170

Blue:  140, 143

Purple:  137, 249

Once this was dry I cut my panel to 2 5/8" x 5 7/8".  I made a slimline panel

from white card stock that measures 3" x 6 1/4".  I cut a dark blue panel that

measures 2 7/8" x 6".

Before adhering my main panel, I splattered it with Black Soot Distress

Paint.  I loosely covered my flowers with scrap paper and splattered with a small brush.

Once the splatter was dry I adhered this panel to my card base.  For

a few final embellishments I added Yellow Stickles to the centers of

the flowers.  Next I added some blue iridescent gems.  And

that finished my card!

I hope you enjoyed and were inspired by my project today.  I love working

with florals and this is beautiful!  Please check out all of the

lovely digital stamp sets found at:

Joy Clair Designs

Thank you so much for joining me today!  I appreciate your time

and your interest!

Betsy