Sending all my love - Anglaise Broderie Heart

Hello there! 

I’m back with a new card design using the beautiful Anglaise Broderie heart nesting die set from Claina Palmer Designs I want to continue creating colourful cards, so I took out my gouache paint set and pallet and got messy. 

TUTORIAL: 

I begin by die cutting the heart out out of white card stock and temporarily adhering it in my preferred position onto a white A5 hammered card stock then prepped the panel for some water colour paint explosions by taping down the sides with washi tape onto a sturdy board to keep it from moving and to prevent any warping whilst wet. 

I then dabbed each colour direct from the tube into individual pans of my pallet then added a few drops of water. I chose the colours Emerald Green, Violet Red, Cerulean Blue, Deep Yellow and Magenta. Then with my medium sized paintbrush, I applied the colours onto an acrylic block to smoosh it onto the heart and dragging the paint off the heart and onto the background creating a splashed effect. I did this with my chosen colours adding more paint on to the acrylic block as I needed and adding some splatters as I go along. Until I am happy with the result, I then left the panel to air dry with the heart still temporarily attached. 

While the acrylic gouache is drying, I die cut a few more hearts for stacking. In total I made 7 layers of the large heart and took the 3 from the 7 layers to cut out the smaller heart (the 3rd die from the set) as I wanted to raise the centre heart a little more. I used scissors to cut the small heart out as the die does not cut out the 3rd die completely,  but it’s not a hassle to do at all. 

Once the watercolour panel has dried, I removed the main heart die that was temporarily adhered to the card stock and used the 2nd largest die from the A5 stitched frame die to tidy up the panel and for a neat edge. Then I used a craft knife to carefully cut out the centre heart to stack up the 3 cut out layers. I stacked the large heart with 4 layers using my good glue ensuring the main heart image is on top. I then adhere the stacked smaller heart back onto the centre of the large heart then mat it on to some sage centura pearl  Card stock before adhering it on to a white card base. 

I finished off the card with a white embossed  sentiment on a dark grey strip with stitching details that I had hand drawn using a white gel pen then added some colour matching half round pearls because I don’t feel complete without it 😝.

I loved how it turned out and enjoyed playing with some paint. My intention was to create a colourful splurge of colours bursting all over the heart image and off it. This die comes in 3 parts, the outer outline cutting die, the large heart and the smaller centre heart. You can die cut the heart out as a whole or die cut them separately to use different sections, which gives you the freedom to create in various styles. I chose to create a more simple and modern design with the dies. 

Thanks for visiting and I hope you’ll find time to give this a go as I would love to see your version of some colour bursting cards. 

x Ali x

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SSS Beautiful flowers

Hi there! 

Last night I tried my first hand at water colouring on an embossed image. I’ve seen so many beautiful water colouring and ‘now-line’ techniques online that it inspired me to have a play. 

As I was (trying) to organise my stamps and dies that’s accumulated over the years. I picked up beautiful flowers that I had purchased sometime ago, and a selection of watercolour wash pattern paper that’s been waiting for an opportunity to be used and so an idea pinged! This become card making moment for me. 

I stamped and heat embossed the large floral image and the sentiments from the set on Bristol extra smooth paper in gold, and with my aqua brush I picked out the blue distress inks that I think is a match to the watercolour paper from my collection.

 I brushed Tumbled Glass with some water on all the petals and dabbed Stormy Sky in areas I think needed shade and for the leaves I used Evergreen Bough. I then  fussy cut the image and used a square to die cut the sentiment. 

I used the largest Crimped frame die from the set to die cut out the matting base out of white card stock and with my versamark pen, I drew a fine line creating a border and heat embossed the line in gold, I did the same to the sentiment too. I then used the next sized crimped frame die for the watercolour pattern paper. 

I attached the Watercolor pattern paper onto the white crimped edge card base with double sided tapes and before I place the floral image down with some foam dots I mounted the base on  to an A2 sized white card base with foam tape. Finishing off, I add some light blue sparkly gems for more interest. 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope this has inspired you to craft as soon as an idea hits as it did me! 

x Ali x 

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