Neat & Tangled is collaborating with
Cosmo Cricket this week. I'm so excited about this team up! Cosmo Cricket is one of my favorite paper companies, and their Just Add Watercolor line is amazing! I'm working with the 12x12 paper pad which includes full size sheets as well as several cut apart sheets. I could not stop at just one card, so I've got three to share today!
The top and bottom strips of this first card were created using one of the cut apart sheets. I used Kuretake Gansai watercolors on all my projects today, and used a couple shades of blue and pink to create the pattern.
For the main panel I masked off the So Very Blessed sentiment and stamped it with dye ink, then stamped over top with Versamark and clear embossed. Using a not too wet brush and just a touch of soft blue, I added a wash over the sentiment.
Then I added a couple of torn pieces of vellum beneath each of the watercolor patterned pieces to soften them and stitched them down.
For the next card I wanted to see if you could emboss over the embossed patterns. Happily, you can! I embossed the sentiment, on one of the 4x4 cut apart pieces and added some watercoloring and then let it dry. The secondary sentiments were embossed in gold and popped up.
Finally, I had to pull out Origami Map since it lends itself so well to watercoloring. For the background I chose one of the 12x12 patterns and added a rainbow of watercolors to it. Then I stamped/embossed/die cut the Origami Map and added rainbow watercoloring in the reverse direction.
I layered the map over a black die cut and popped the entire piece up as well as the sentiment.
These were so fun to make. Playing with that Cosmo Cricket watercolor pad was addicting, don't be surprised if you see some more of these cards here!
Be sure to head over to the Neat & Tangled
blog today. Two DT members are posting each day this week, and we'll draw a comment from over there for someone to win a 12x12 paper pad at the end of the week. You'll want to stop by the
Cosmo Cricket blog too as they are giving away a $25 credit to the Neat & Tangled store!
Neat & Tangled Supplies Used:
Origami Map
Origami Map Die
All My Heart
So Very Blessed