Hello everyone! Betsy here with my first blog post for Joy Clair Designs! I am so excited and feel honored to be a part of this wonderful team!
For my first project I was very inspired by the new Pantone Color of the Year - Veri Peri. I paired it with the gorgeous Full Heart digistamp. The 2 together are simply gorgeous! Let me show you how I made my card!
I started by printing my heart image and sentiments onto hot press watercolor paper.
I only have an inkjet printer - so nothing special. I did print my image out the night before and I think that gives the ink some time to cure. I used a Watercolor Brush Pen from Altenew called Persian Blue from their Winter Wonderland Collection. I chose my background paper - a sheet from Craft Consortium Ink Drops-Vivid. The pen from Altenew really coordinated well with it. I squirted some of the ink from the pen onto my glass mat, added water and picked it up with my paintbrush. I gave the whole heart image a light wash of this color. I did't leave it to settle into the paper or go over it a lot, just a quick light wash. You can see it's not an even wash and it didn't need to be.
I next started shading it with the same marker only with no extra water. I only did this on 3 of the roses.
I actually went even darker after these few petals were done as I really wanted contrast.
I had plans for the fold-overs on the petals so I didn't shade those particular areas.
I used Violet watercolor from Zahra Ammar Art on Etsy for the fold over petals. It gives the heart a little sparkle as it is a metallic paint and that color is so dreamy!
You can also see that my pen splattered when I took the cap off!!!!! No worries. I had plans to fussy cut this and even the smudge on the side would be hidden. I took the violet paint and added a light glaze over the whole heart. I did this by watering the paint way down and just going over the whole heart lightly. I next fussy cut the heart and around the white edge I painted gold. I used Persian Gold from Zahra Zammar Art. It's gorgeous!
I put a wash of the Persian Blue over the sentiments and then a glaze of the Violet.
It still needed something so using a fan brush I splattered it with the Persian Gold paint.
I die cut these sentiments and backed them on gold mirror paper. I also covered the front of of a standard A2 Size top folding white card with the gold mirror paper and adhered the panel of patterned paper that was cut to 4 1/8" x 5 3/8" on top.
Using foam tape I adhered my heart to the center of my card. I adhered the sentiments to the top and bottom. As a last embellishment I adhered small gold foiled pearls around the card.
This is such a gorgeous digistamp and can be used so many different ways! I was actually going to go with another layout when I started my project!...I'll save that for another time! Look for this beautiful digital stamp and many others at
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Betsy
In my capacity as a design team member for Joy Clair Designs, I do receive the products I use from them.
All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.
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