SSS You Are My Favorite Wavy Background IG Hop Cards

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Hi all!  Today I'm participating in an Instagram hop celebrating Simon's new You Are My Favorite release Simon is giving away a $25 store credit at each stop along the hop, so be sure to head over to my IG account @mprantner to leave a comment there to be entered to win.

I've got two more Wavy background cards to share today. These are my favorite cards created with this background because I was really jus playing and experimenting. I started by painting two panels of watercolor cardstock with Distress Paints. I didn't really have a plan, but I wanted something very bold to balance the bold background design.  I used Lumberjack Plaid, Villainous Potion, Mustard Seed, Blueprint Sketch, and Evergreen Bough, and just randomly painted the background, adding some curves ino the design.  

Once the panels were dry, I went to work.  For the first card, I stamped the background with Versa Clair black ink and clear embossed.  The stamp didn't stand out quite as much as I had hoped.  I needed to balance the stamp with the bold background.  I pulled out my Gansai Tambi Starry Colors watercolor set, and painted every other line with the Light Gold paint.  Here's what the panel looked like when complete.

The completed panel was trimmed down and adhered to my card base with foam tape. For the sentiment, I used the Happy BDay die cut from Champagne Matte and black cardstock.  These were slightly offset, and then popped up with foam tape.

For my second card, I balanced the background stamp in a different way. I painted a very light layer of Gesso over my Distress Paint background to soften/mute the color.  Once that was dry, the background was stamped and gold embossed.  I think it almost looks like there is vellum over the painted background.

Once again, I adhered the panel to my card base with foam tape, and then added the Whirl Bay Leaves die cut from Champagne Matte cardstock, a few moonstones, and a sentiment from the Reverse Bold Love sentiment strips.

That's all for me today.  Don't forget to head over to my IG account @mprantner to leave a comment to be entered to win the store credit!

SSS Wavy Background Take 2

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I've got another Wavy background card to share today.  This bakground is so perfect for watercoloring!

I stamped and clear embossed the background on some watercolor paper, and then after adding a wash of water, dabbed watercolor onto the panel. The set that I used was the Sumikundo Shadow Black set which I bought several years ago. I love these moody colors.

Once my panel was dry, it was adhered to my card base with Sookwang adhesive.

For the sentiment, I die cut my Lovely sentiment from dark blue cardstock, adhering it to a shadow piece cut from the watercolor paper.  This was popped up over my background with foam tape, and I added a couple of secondary sentiments from the Lovely stamp set which were stamped with Night ink.

I've got a couple more Wavy cards to share with you tomorrow.  See you then!

SSS You Are My Favorite, Wavy Background

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Today I'm showing off my new Wavy background.  This background is great for los of different techniques, but today I wanted to color.

For all of my cards today, the background was stamped with Gina K Amalgam ink, colored with Copics, and then stamped again with Versa Clair black to really crisp up the lines.  For my first card, I used B0000, B00, FBG2, and B04.

Going along with the wave theme, I pulled out my So Swell set, stamping the sentiment with Versa Clair black, and popping up the die cut sentiment up with foam tape.

Next up, I couldn't resist coloring a rainbow.  This time I used RV09, R29, YR07, Y18, G05, B06, and FV2.  I also colored the negative space with 100.

I went with a big bright sentiiment, cutting the Sending Good Vibes sentiment yellow cardstock and adding a black shadow piece.

Finally, I thought it would be fun to do some fussy cutting to create a little trio of cards.

I stamped the background once, and then colored three of the sections with three different color families: RV20, RV23, RV25, and RV29; BG11, BG13, BG15, and BG49; and YG00, YG06, YG07, and YG09.  

Once I had completed the stamping with Versa Clair, I fussy cut the three sections.  They were then added to white panels, and sentiments from the Be Bold set were stamped with Versa Clair.

I went with colored cardstock that coordinated with the colored images for the card bases.

That's all for me today, come back tomorrow for another Wavy card.