Water Colored Winter Bird with Dry Emboss for Spellbinders

What is your favorite coloring technique? Without a doubt, mine is water coloring, although it seems I don't spend as much time as I'd like with this medium. The thing that I love about it is layering and building color and depth. I've really been into creating cards with warm tones lately, and this trend continues with today's card.

For this project, I paired products from the Spellbinders/Simon Hurley Joyful Christmas collection and Floral Reflection collection, featuring the Tile Reflection 3D Embossing Folder. Scroll down for creative details!

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I started by tearing edges off an A2 sized piece of Strathmore watercolor paper, because I wanted a distressed look. I ended up with a 3 1/4 by 5 inch watercolor panel. I used the smooshing technique for this panel which involves pressing an ink pad (preferably water based) onto a craft mat, then spritzing with a little water. Just randomly press your card or paper into the mixture, then heat dry. The ink that I used was Ranger Distress Ground Expresso and Oxide Ink.

Next, I stamped my image from Winter Woodland using my hybrid ink pad from Scrapbookcom called Leather. Hybrid inks are good for water coloring or coloring with alcohol inks. Stamping with this color ink gives more of a no-line coloring effect and realism.

I used my Kuretake Zig brush markers from the Smoky collection for the coloring of my image. Just swipe on a craft mat and grab the color with a wet detailed paintbrush.

You can see a reel that I posted on Instagram using these colors here.

To give my berries a "frosted" look, I used a white gel pen. I also dotted some on my bird.

My background panel was embossed using the new Tile Reflections embossing folder and I also embossed my watercolor panel around the edges. To make it pop a little more, I used my finger to grab white pigment ink from my ink pad and rub directly onto the embossed images.

It adds so much more interest, don't you think?

Lastly, I mounted my watercolor panel with adhesive foam, then added a fussy cut, stamped sentiment, also mounted on foam. The total dimensions of my card were 4 1/4 x 6 inches.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I've scattered affiliate product links throughout this post and you can just click on them to go directly to the product for more details or to do a little shopping for yourself! I also have many of the products linked below that were used for this project.

See you next time..... Terri

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Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L EZ Grand Runner Shop at: Scrapbookcom	Neenah Solar White Cardstock 8.5x11 inch Shop at: Scrapbookcom	Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L EZ Runner Grand Refill Shop at: Scrapbookcom	Premium Pigment Ink- Pure White Shop at: Scrapbookcom
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Double Sided Adhesive Foam Tape - 32 feet Shop at: Scrapbookcom	Bazill Basics Dark Kraft Cardstock Shop at: Scrapbookcom	Gelly Roll Pen - White Shop at: Scrapbookcom	New Misti (metal hinges) 8x10 inch Shop at: Scrapbookcom
Simon Hurley Winter Woodland Stamp Set Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Spellbinders	Ranger Ink Distress Oxide Ink Pad - Ground Espresso Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Ranger Ink | Spellbinders	Ranger Ink Distress Ink Pad - Ground Espresso Shop at: Ranger Ink	Spellbinders Tile Reflection 3D Embossing Folder Shop at: Spellbinders

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