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

Magenta Card Exchange February: California

 Another month and another fun chard exchange! This month my card went to a participant in California.

In making this card, I was inspired by a post by Kristina Werner. You can see her post here. She was using glitter watercolors by Iuile Watercolors on Etsy. This young lady hand makes her own watercolors, and I have become a bit addicted to them. They are expensive, but she sells dot cards with fairly large dots of watercolor on them, so that you can try out her colors fairly inexpensively.

I used Stonehenge black watercolor paper, since the glitter colors show up much better on black. Even after watercoloring this image, I still had a lot of watercolor left for other projects.

Prior to watercoloring, I stamped and embossed this beautiful Magenta image (Flower in Square) in gold onto the watercolor cardstock. 

Capturing the glitter on this project is very hard to do with a photograph, but it's pretty bling-y.

I set aside the image to dry and cut a panel of pink cardstock using The Greetery Crimped Frame die, and stamped the Magenta sentiment (Life is a Gift) at the bottom. I added some purple silk ribbon and mounted the watercolored panel over it. The entire panel was then mounted to a base card of 110# Neenah Solar White.

This is the sneak peek I showed on the FaceBook Magenta Passion Studio site. The glitter kind of shows up in this photo.

Magenta Products used:

19.048.M Flower in Square

07.640.G Life is a Gift

Other Products used:

Iuile Glitter Watercolors

Stonehenge Black Watercolor cardstock

Versamark ink

Versafine Onyx black ink

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Fine-Tek gold watercolor for splatters

The Greetery Crimped Frame die

Purple silk ribbon