Hello lovelies! Today's latest release for Catherine Pooler Designs is called "Trail Mix". It's chock full of all things outdoors, camping and critters. You're going to love it! I grew up camping with my entire extended family; grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins..... you name it. So many memories of campgrounds in upstate New York. Gosh, I miss it. Alas, I digress. I'm sharing two cards today, but let's talk about the one below first. Scroll down for details, I have a lot to say so buckle up, haha!
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I was going for a no-line coloring look and I think I achieved it, albeit, throwing all the techniques at this card, haha. Watercoloring, heat embossing, ink blending, stenciling, ink splatters, stamping.....all the things!
This is a horizontal side fold A2 size card. I began by laying down masking tape on an A2 size card panel, about two thirds of the way down, with all my creative work to be above that masked line.
I started by working my way left to right, stenciling in the trees. To create overlap of the trees, I adhered small strips of masking tape over the edges of surrounding trees, to then go in and create the overlap with the darker ink. I fully intended to show a photo of this process but my stencil was literally covered up with tape and not that attractive, know what I mean? I also had to cover other areas of the stencil design surrounding the image I was using at the time, so as not to get random ink on the paper from the other designs.
Needless to say, my stencil was a hot mess. But, if you're familiar with making hot messes, you know exactly what I'm talking about!
My initial focus for this card was to create a camper parked back in the woods. To make it look that way, I covered my stenciled tree edges with tape. Because I wanted to go with a no-line coloring theme, I stamped with CPD Cashmere ink which is a very light beige color.
Once stamped, I removed all the tape from the trees and began watercoloring. I'll have a breakdown of the ink colors that I used for this entire project, further down.
I have some really wide masking tape which came in handy, because I wanted to ink blend the entire area surrounding the trees and camper. This meant I need to mask my camper, which I did by stamping on my wide masking tape, trimming the design around the edges, and laying it down on top of my stamped camper on the card. I also covered the edges of my trees with more masking tape.
This is also when I ink blended my sun since everything was already masked around the trees. I only used the circle design of the sun and not the "sun beams" on the stencil. Those were also covered with tape.
At this point, I completely ink blended the sky. Here's the breakdown of CPD ink colors:
Stenciled Trees - Pistachio, Mardi Gras
Camper - Uptown, Catching Rays, Slate, Amber
Sky - Getaway, Catching Rays, Samba
Lastly, I heat embossed my sentiment from the Happy Trails Bundle, splattered some white paint, stamped some stars from the stamp set and colored them in with a white gel pen. I also used masking tape to create a dirt road below my colored scene. This is so easy to do! Just lay down masking tape across the bottom of your colored scene, then drop down about 1/2 an inch and place another strip of masking tape. Swipe across the area with the Mixed Media Embossing Brush from Wow, sprinkle on the Wow Rusted Roof embossing powder, tapping off the excess, and heat emboss.
Now, let's move on and wrap this up!
Let me keep this one brief, if I can, haha! I did more watercoloring for this card, stamping all my images with Black Jack ink, pressing my other inks on a craft mat and spritzing with water, then using a water brush to color with the mix.
The ink colors for this card are:
Uptown, Catching Rays, Succulent, Orange Twist, Getaway, Pistachio, Amber
I didn't have the new patterned paper from the Trail Mix collection in my possession, so I relied once again on the Right At Home Paper pack, since there were similar colors that coordinated with the inks I was using. A plaid paper from that collection was the backing for my card panel.
So, let's talk about the card panel. My white card panel was trimmed down slightly to coordinate with the dimensions of my A2 card, as was the patterned paper.
I started by swiping my Uptown ink from the top, creating a slope midway. Then I brushed on more of the Wow mixed media embossing liquid, following the line of the slope. I sprinkled on the Wow Rusted Roof embossing powder, tapped off the excess, then dried with my heat tool.
Next, I grabbed another A2 card panel and swiped across it with Succulent ink. I then tore the edge to follow the slope of the rusted roof embossing, leaving a slight gap showing the white cardstock underneath and adhered the green ripped paper to my card panel.
I love how the Wow Rusted Roof embossing powder can look like dirt. You can do so many great mixed projects with this powder! It's my favorite right now.
I also grabbed another Wow product from my stash, also inspired by Catherine Pooler, my Halo glitter embossing powder. I took my glue bottle and tapped on various sized dots of glue across my sky, then sprinkled on the Halo powder and dried it with my heat tool. I also stamped some of the stars from my stamp set, coloring them in with a white gel pen and dotting on more tiny stars with my white gel pen.
My sentiment was stamped with Black Jack and Uptown inks, using the mask technique for stamping. Lastly, I added lots of enamel dots from the new Party Greens collection.
I think that about covers it folks! Let me know in the comments, if you have any questions. Feel free to tap the affiliate links in my supply list below, if you'd like to browse for more product information or shop. These links are created at no added cost to you and I appreciate when you use them!
Happy crafting ya'll, have a great day, and check out the entire Trail Mix collection, here.
Terri
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