Happy Monday and I hope that everyone had a safe and happy Thanksgiving. My family and I certainly did. Now we are getting revved up for Christmas.
But, for this week, I veered off course. I decided on doing
a Southwest style card using I Brake for Stamps (IBFS) Maiden with Dove rubber
stamp. I love this image and the size is just perfect for my coloring mediums.
I embossed the image with black pigment ink and clear
embossing powder. Now the fun starts. Not my usual Copics coloring but with
Twinkling H2Os. My tans and browns are from instant coffee. Yes, you
heard right, instant coffee. I love the texture that it leaves. You do need to
make if very strong and always use watercolor paper too. Some of the darker
areas were achieved by very little water and a lot of coffee, not a sludge
texture, but definitely thick. I did test on a scrap piece of paper to see just
how strong the color would be. You can also add some water to the image before
painting with the coffee. That gives it that watercolor feel, which is what you
are really doing with coffee and not paints.
I did some fussy cutting and mounted her on Stampin’ Up!’s copper
cardstock and mounted that on a piece of natural paper that was embossed with
gold pigment ink and clear embossing powder. The last two layers are a coffee
filter that I wrinkled and used Vintage Photo distress ink and water on the wrinkles. I
ironed that flat for drying and mounted on some scrap cardstock. That was mounted
on more copper cardstock and then mounted on the card base.
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