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Beautiful Bunch – Tie Dye Circles Card
At my Technique Tuesday class this week, I taught my stampers the Tie Dye Circles technique. I love this technique – it is a great watercoloring method.
You will burnish three colors of various intensities into your watercolor paper – lightest shade first to cover the largest area and then move in with your middle shade. Finally, you will sponge in the darkest shade in the center – but keep in mind to go for a more natural look – it looks more artistic and whimsical with varying circles.
You will then take an AquaPainter (or a plain paintbrush and water) and go around the circles – again, starting with the lightest. You are basically taking away ink from the circles.
Set aside and let dry or, if you are in a hurry, use your heat gun on it!
Finished this card off with seam binding, the butterfly punch and pearl, and a phrase from A Dozen Thoughts. My color combination was Hello Honey, Tangelo Twist, and Blackberry Bliss!
Subscribe to the comments for this postSecret Garden Square Lattice Card
Secret Garden is another stamp set carried over from the Occasions Mini Catalog that I love! The bold images have such a tropical feel. Not quite enough to bring out my coconut bra, but I do hear the Hawaiian guitars strumming in the background when I use this set.
I used the Square Lattice embossing folder after I stamped the images. I doubled up on the butterfly punch and attached the top, folded one with a glue dot. My stampers never used the ticket punch before – it is perfect for some of our smaller phrases (this phrase is from Sweet Essentials)! Now that I look again at the card, I need to add some gems to the centers of the butterflies. They need a little sparkle!
