Magenta Super Saturday: Happy Birthday with Shimmer Watercolor

 Time to make a guy birthday card and I decided to use my shimmer watercolors from Iuile at Etsy. I am posting this on Magenta today, and you can see that post here.

I wish that I could photograph this properly to show how gorgeous the glittery shine is with these watercolors.

I first stamped the Magenta Floral Snowflake image in gold Delicata ink. Because there is some texture on this dark blue cardstock, it didn't stamp completely solid, so I put some of the gold ink onto a block and with a wet brush I spread the ink out to cover the image better.

I then painted in parts of the image using the Christmas Set of Iuile watercolors. Since these watercolors have so much mica in them, they are opaque

I added some dots of gold Sakura Poster Color paint using a stylus

I stamped the Magenta Sally Penley calligraphy Happy Birthday and embossed it with gold embossing powder. I was afraid that if I stamped it with the Delicata on the textured paper it wouldn't show up well enough. I matted the panel with So Silk Fair Blue cardstock and mounted it onto a base card.

Magenta Products used:

02.319.L Floral Snowflake

07.975.I Lg Happy Birthday

Other Products used:

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

Delicata Gold ink from Tsukineko

Iuile Christmas Set watercolor

Versamark ink

Ranger Gold embossing powder

Papercut Deep Blue cardstock

So Silk Fair Blue cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Magenta Super Saturday: Coloring with Watercolor, Zig Markers and Colored Pencils

 I'm over at the Magenta blog today, and you can see that post here.

I had a lot of fun making cards with the Magenta Large Flower Tile stamp today. There is a story behind the creation of this stamp, and I will share that with you at the end of this post.

I started out by stamping and gold embossing the image onto 4 of the different pieces of cardstock. On the 5th, I stamped in white pigment ink.

I thought I would color the floral images on this stamp with Zig Clean Color markers, and they worked great on most of these. They don't show up well on dark colors though. On the black watercolor cardstock, I decided to use Iuile Watercolors, which show up so well on black. I used the paint from one of the dot cards.

It's really hard to show how glittery these beautiful watercolors are in real life. The are also a bit opaque, so they don't blend in quite the same way as regular watercolor.

On the Strathmore Toned Blue Mixed media cardstock, I chose some of the Turquoise colors from the Zig markers.

I really love how this one turned out. 

For the Strathmore Toned Tan Mixed Media cardstock, I chose dark oranges and red.

These lighter colored Mixed Media cardstocks worked beautifully with the Zig markers

For the Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock, I chose reds, pink and purple. For all of these last 4 cards, I embossed with gold embossing powder.

The final version of this card is shown at the top of this post. I used regular cardstock, and therefore chose colored pencils rather than a watercolor medium.

These are my favorite colors for this dark blue cardstock. This is how it looked before it was embossed.

This is how the panel that I colored with pencils looked after I put it back into my stamp platform and stamped over the coloring with Versamark ink. I embossed this one with JudiKins Silver Detail embossing powder. The card at the very top of this post was taken in brighter light and shows off the colors better.

Here are all of them with their chosen colors for matting. To finish the panels off with a sentiment, I added a Happy Birthday sentiment on vellum. I couldn't bear to cover up any of these pretty patterns. (And yes, I needed a bunch of birthday cards this month)  

The banners were die cut using a sweet little banner die which is included The Greetery Crimped Slimline die set. The Birthday stamp is from my cut up version of the Magenta Multilingual Happy Birthday stamp.

I promised to tell you the origin story of this stamp. This pattern came from a piece of china that belonged to Susie Tracy's mother. Susie is the former owner of Art 'n Soul, and a good friend of mine, and also of Helene, who owns Magenta. When Helene was visiting Susie one time, she took a photograph of the china, and voila! This beautiful stamp was born.

Magenta Products used:

40.346.Q Large Flower Tile

07.907.L Multilingual Happy Birthday

Other Products used:

Blue Colored Pencil card:

Prismacolor Pencils: PC992 Aqua,

PC905 Aquamarine, PC105 Cobalt Turquoise

PC1008 Parma Violet, PC932 Violet, 

PC1004 Yellow Chartreuse, PC1005 Limepeel,

PC912 Apple Green

PTI Dark Indigo cardstock

DCWV Foiled Silver cardstock

Versamark ink

JudiKins Detail Silver embossing powder

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

The Greetery Crimped Slimline die set

Translucent Vellum

Iuile Watercolors on Black

Iuile Christmas Series Dot Card

Stonehenge Black Watercolor Cardstock

Curious Metallic Super Gold Cardstock

Versamark ink

Ranger Gold embossing powder

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

The Greetery Crimped Slimline die set

Translucent Vellum

Toned Blue Card with Zig Markers

Strathmore Toned Blue Mixed Media Cardstock

So Silk Glamour Green Cardstock

Zig Clean Color Markers used: 042 Turquoise Green,

033 Persian Green, 047 May Green,

050 Yellow, 084 Deep Violet

Versamark ink

Ranger Gold embossing powder

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

The Greetery Crimped Slimline die set

Translucent Vellum

Toned Tan Card with Zig Markers

Strathmore Toned Tan Mixed Media Cardstock

PTI Terracotta Tile Cardstock

Zig Clean Color Markers used: 047 May Green,

060 Brown, 070 Orange, 

029 Geranium Red, 023 Scarlet Red

Versamark ink

Ranger Gold embossing powder

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

The Greetery Crimped Slimline die set

Translucent Vellum

White Card with Zig Markers

Tim Holtz Watercolor Cardstock

PTI Pure Poppy Cardstock

Zig Clean Color Markers used: 047 May Green,

029 Geranium Red, 021 Light Carmine,

080 Violet

Versamark ink

Ranger Gold embossing powder

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

The Greetery Crimped Slimline die set

Translucent Vellum

Card Exchange: Canada

In the Magenta March card exchange my card went to Canada this time.  

I used one of my favorite Magenta stamps, Ornamental Onion Tile, but in a different way. Using Stonehenge black watercolor paper, I stamped the image with gold Delicata ink, and then used opaque metallic watercolors from Iuile to paint over the image. You can get her paints in half pans, as sets, or as dot cards. The dot cards have lots of paint on them, and are fun to experiment with.

I die cut the panel with The Greetery Nordic Frame die, and matted with gold cardstock. The gold mat peeks through the die cut panel and complements the gold in the image.

Although the paint is somewhat opaque, it blended well with the Delicata ink so that some of the gold showed through. I stamped the sentiment - one of Sally Penley's lovely calligraphy stamps made for Magenta - using Versamark ink and embossed with gold embossing powder.

Here is a very out of focus image of the card, but I was trying to capture how glittery this paint actually is. It's beautiful in real life. At the end, I flicked gold Fine-Tec watercolor all over.

Magenta Products used:

14.593.L Ornamental Onion tile

07.976.G Hello!

Other Products used:

Metallic watercolors from Iuile at Etsy

The Greetery Nordic Frames die

Delicata Golden Glitz ink

Fine-Tec Gold watercolors

Versamark ink

Ranger gold embossing powder

Stonehenge black watercolor paper

Curious Metallic Super Gold cardstock

Neenah 110# solar white cardstock