Apr 15 2009
Have a Bloomin’ Great Day!
Wednesdays are always fun! We get to have another Wacky challenge! This week sweet Juliana presented us with a really cool inspiration piece, and let me tell ya, I studied this piece for quite a while before I came up with what I wanted to do. Being an accountant, I’m usually quite literal with any interpretation, but I think I managed to free myself a little from completely CASEing the piece. Here’s the inspiration piece:
And here’s my card:
I started by completely wetting a piece of watercolor paper. Using a waterbrush and Ranger distress reinkers, I painted the entire page in Broken China, just spreading it unevenly to keep the random look. Then I took my clean waterbrush and picked up a drop of Dusty Concord reinker and let it drop randomly onto the paper. I repeated this with Fired Brick reinker. When it was completely dry, I stamped the Grid background (451) in bleach. Subtle and just the way I wanted it to look!
The flower silhouette from set 467 and the dragonfly from Easter Inchies (436) were also stamped in distress reinkers on watercolor paper and cut out. I couldn’t find a button in the color I wanted, so I covered a piece of grungeboard with some textured paper and sanded, then inked the edges. I punched 2 holes in it with my cropadile and threaded some crochet cotton through it. Distress stickles in Worn Lipstick were added to the center of the flower.
That’s it for today. Be sure to check out the Rubbernecker blog for all the details on the challenge and links so you can get some great inspiration from the design team members too!
- Stamps: Grid background (451), Flower Silhouettes (467), Easter Inchies (436) – dragonfly, Wildflowers (465) – sentiment
- Paper: watercolor paper, Prism – majestic purple dark, simply smooth white, white prismatic, DCWV – textured teal
- Ink: Ranger Distress pads – worn lipstick, dusty concord, Distress reinkers – broken china, dusty concord, fired brick, Versafine – onyx black
- Other: waterbrush, bleach, 1″ punch, Tim Holtz chipboard circle, ink blending tool, foam tape, cotton crochet thread, Distress stickles – worn lipstick
Items available at Rubbernecker Stamp Co.
21 responses so far
Broni this background is absolutely AWESOME! I love how you’ve stamped the grid in bleach. Wonderful take on the inspiration piece.
This is a piece of art Broni. Slashes of watercolor with a little bleach – just gorgeous!
Wow Wow WOWWWW! What a cool effect!
Wow! I love this watercoloring effect! And cute button you created too!
Whoa, girl…this made me stop in my tracks…love the background you created!!! The colors and grid background are sooo cool and I love how you used the little flower, butterfly, and button!!! Such an awesome take on the challnege piece!!!
This is COOL! I love your background – the colors, the blobs, the dreamy watercolor-y look…….. LOVE it! Then to top it all off, you stamp the grid background with bleach? Just too cool!
This is a beautiful card Broni. I love the watercolour background. It’s gorgeous
Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I sooooooooooooo love that gorgeous watercolor background, Broni. The colors spead so beautifully on the wet paper. This is an inspired piece of art.
This is sooo cool!!
It sounds like it was fun to do, too!!
I love how you used the grid bg. (never even occurred to me–duh!)
The butterfly and flower look perfect with this backdrop!
Beautiful! So soft and lovely!!
I love it! I’ll have to try it for my workshop with my ladies. It is so soft! I do have a question though, doesn’t the bleach hurt the rubber?
Broni – this is wonderful. It looks like you had a good time doing this challenge. I love it and thank you for explaining how it was done. I need to give it a try. Have a great day
Stunning! I love the combination of all the various art mediums. It came together beautifully.
WOW Broni! You really nailed that challenge! Well done!
This is so incredibly beautiful that I’m having a difficult time finding words to describe it! I LOVE it!!
Carol
Wow gorgeous Broni, love it all!!
WOW! Broni, that background is beautiful. Great job my friend.
Wow, love the background!!!!
Stunning card, Broni!!
man, this is fantabulousoooooo! love that you bleached with the grid bg! of course that bg wasn’t on my first purchase……. but you’re making me think it’s gonna be on my second! 😉
LOVE LOVE LOVE your background, Broni!!! Such beautiful colors!
YOur watercolour background is so pretty, I love the soft look of the watercolours and the way they do their own thing. This is a beautiful card.