All These Birthdays by Debs Wainwright
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Hello
everyone, Debs here with some more birthday cards, 3 in fact. Well, you can never have too many
tucked away, can you?
Here what I did
Using a 2” silicone
brush and acrylic paint in a mix of greens, I covered a sheet of heavyweight
card completely. The brush is really useful as it makes a little go along way,
or it can add a thicker coat, as well as adding texture and patterns.
Using the brush
again I applied an even coat of Weathered Wood and once dry, I coated it with
Tinting base, then dried it with a heat tool.
The background
colours were created using water colours, loosely applied and blotted where
necessary to keep it light.
I adore shades of
greens and blues with all kinds of mauves and lilacs together on the one
project. You have to be careful not to let the primary colours mix as you will
have lovely shades of brown. This is fine if that's what you want, but I wanted
to keep the colours fresh and bright.
In the photo below
you can see how I have stamped on my background in a lighter ink, and the
feature in black. Using a white paint pen I coloured in all the flowers to give
them a base on which to add colour.
Again using the
watercolours, I built up the colour of the flowers and finished them off with
coloured pencils. The highlights were picked out with the white paint pen and
blended to create some depth.
I repeated this process on all three cards
using different colour combinations but basically the same palette.
While these were drying I prepared the
cards adding a silver mat cut to fit just inside the edge of the card. I
prepared the sentiment too. Once assembled, coloured pearls completed the cards.
What I used
Tim Holtz Craft Core Metallic
From Stash Card Blank
From Stash Birthday Sentiment
And here they are together again again
Well there's a few
more to my collection, but I still need a few more so guess I'll keep on making
them lol.
As always take care, hugs
Debs xx
8 comments
They look so pretty don't they. Love the weathered look of your crackle background. Perfect backdrop for those gorgeous Kay Carley flowers. Lx
ReplyDeleteGreat set of cards Debs, adore the arty backgrounds with that crackle and fantastic use of those wonderful CE paints!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful trio Debs! xxx
ReplyDeleteThese are super wonderful colour blends and love the texture
ReplyDeleteThese are gorgeous Debs! So pretty and love the colours too.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
Beautiful cards, love these stamp sets I have the allium one but tempted to get the other one too ;)
ReplyDeleteHugs
Donna xxx
Fabulous trio of cards Debs
ReplyDeleteLove
Amanda x
The flowers look wonderful over the crackled background - lovely cards!
ReplyDeleteAlison x
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