Full Heart with Joy Clair Designs

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

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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.