Wishing Prism

Hi and welcome!  It's the day after Christmas Day (or Boxing Day as we call it) and I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  Our day was pretty low-key, spent with family.  Today, I found some time to get back into the craft room and I struggled at bit at first.  I've got nearly two weeks off work and there are so many techniques I want to try, that I didn't know where to start!  In the end, I went with something I'd been wanting to try for months - a technique I saw on Sonja's blog.  She developed a controlled watercolor technique which is so much fun and she also made a video.

I started by white-embossing the Prism Lines background stamp onto some watercolor paper.  Then I donned my disposable glove and started "painting" with Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron and Spiced Marmalade inks.  I was having so much fun that I made the colored piece a bit larger than I wanted :)  I die-cut the piece with a pierced rectangle die and adhered it to a Green Apple card base.  The sentiment was die-cut and stacked and the stamping was white embossed and cut with a pierced banner.  I made a thread nest with some silver thread to place behind the sentiment and then finished it off with some PTI rain stones.

I have to say, it was nice to make a card that wasn't a Christmas card!  I'm entering this card into Seize the Birthday Anything Goes and Inkspirational's Anything but Christmas challenges.

Thanks for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  Prism Lines (Hero Arts), Sending and Wishing (SSS)
Ink;  Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Spiced Marmalade (Distress), Versamark
Cardstock:  Green Apple (SSS), watercolor, black
Dies:  Blueprints 21 (MFT), Wishing (SSS), Pierced Fishtail Flag Stax (MFT)
Accessories:  White EP, silver thread, rain stones (PTI)

Cheers
Karren