Super Saturday at Magenta: Watercolored and Heat Embossed

Hi all! I'm doing this post over at the Magenta blog today and you can see that here. 

I received the nicest gift from a close Japanese friend who is an amazing artist and a master craftsman who works in Cloisonné. I wanted to send him a thank you card using his artwork as color inspiration.

This first card is my choice to send him, but I made 3 others using different cardstock. A photo of the Cloisonné artwork is at the bottom of this post.

To stamp each card I used a MISTI stamping tool, and used the technique where you stamp and then turn the card upside down to stamp again. 

The panel in the middle of these two stamp platforms above is just a piece of typing paper that I stamped to see if the sentiment would fit. I have the flowers on one platform and the sentiment on the other.

The image above shows how I stamped on one corner and then turned the panel upside down to stamp on the other corner at the bottom.

I stamped 5 panels, but didn't use one of them that was white bristol cardstock.

The beautiful flower image is Magenta's Bloom Crescent. I also set up the sentiment (Multilingual Thank You) in a second MISTI to be sure it would be stamped in the right place for each card.

For each card I tried different mediums and substrates. In the first card, I used Karin Markers and a waterbrush. I used the same markers on white Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock.

The Karin Marker colors look very different on white cardstock. I like it both of them though.

For the third card I used the Twinkle Tones watercolor paint that I and my friend Pam made last year. 

To see other posts about Twinkle Tones click here and here.

For the last card I used Kuretake Clean Color brush markers. I put the ink onto a block and picked it up with a waterbrush.

Here's the absolutely stunning artwork from my friend

Cloisonné Artwork by Shinya Okamoto

Magenta Products Used:

09.256.P Bloom Crescent

07.882.I Multilingual Thank You

Other Products Used:

Card #1:

Karin Markers: Cerise375, Magenta359

Royal Blue045, Egyptian Blue305

Strathmore Toned Blue Mixed Media cardstock

So Silk Fair blue cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Judikins Detail Silver embossing powder

The Greetery GD-M-016 Crimped Frame Die

Card #2

Karin Markers: Cerise375, Magenta359

Royal Blue045, Egyptian Blue305

Tim Holtz Watercolor cardstock

So Silk Fair blue cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Ranger Gold embossing powder

The Greetery GD-M-016 Crimped Frame Die

Card #3

Twinkletones Shimmer Watercolor

Strathmore Toned Gray Mixed Media cardstock

So Silk Fair blue cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Ranger Gold embossing powder

The Greetery GD-M-016 Crimped Frame Die

Card #4

Zig Kuretake Clean Color Real Brush Markers:

Persian Blue032, Pink025

So Silk Glamour Green cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Ranger Gold embossing powder

The Greetery GD-M-016 Crimped Frame Die

Super Saturday at Magenta: Distress Blending

Hi everyone! I have this post over at Magenta and you can see it here.

 It's the time of year for Thank You cards, and one of my favorite kind to do. 

For this one I first blended Distress inks on a panel of Neenah Solar White 80# cardstock. I used an older Magenta stamp called Chickadee - Thinking of You. I have a card using the full stamp at the bottom of this post, and it's the first one I made for this post. But since I really wanted to do a Thank You card, I inked only the bottom of the stamp and added a Thank You sentiment from Sally Penley's beautiful calligraphy stamps. Both were stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

I painted the leaves using the Twinkle Tones shimmering watercolors that my friend Pam and I made. For more information on that, check out my post here. Any shimmery or glittery watercolors would do for this. Since I was painting on regular 80# cardstock, I didn't use a lot of water, and that brings out the beauty of these shimmery paints.

Here's an angled photo that shows how pretty the shimmery watercolors are.

Before I made the Thank You card, I made a Thinking of You card with the Chickadee. I love this stamp because it makes a card without adding anything else. For the Chickadee card I added Stickles on the leaves for some sparkle. The background is blended Distress ink using Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn.

Magenta Products used:

0561.R Chickadee-Thinking of You

07.979.G Medium Thank You

Other Products used:

Distress inks: Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers,

Twisted Citron, Tumbled Glass, Mowed Lawn

Twinkle Tones Shimmer Watercolors

Firefly Stickles

Versafine Onyx Black ink

The Greetery GD-M-016 Crimped Frame Die

Neenah Solar White cardstock 80# & 110#

So Silk Beauty Pink cardstock

PTI Enchanted Evening cardstock

Honey Bee Prism Gems