SND ATC -- Stamping with Stencils; Watercoloring

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These are really pretty! I've never tried that technique of overheating the embossing powder. The image and stencil are are great match!

July 27, 2014

SND ATC -- Stamping with Stencils; Watercoloring

I made these ATCs for Heidi's Stamp N Dash ATC Swap: http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/mb.asp?cmd=display&forum_id=22&thread_id=3281017. [twopeasinabucket.com] Thank you, Heidi!

The task was to use a stamp with a stencil, use water, and stamp. We only needed to make two ATCsone to keep and one to swap, but I got carried away. At first I didn't care for the splotchy backgrounds so I kept trying to get a smoother image. I finally did make some neater backgrounds, but by then I rather liked the splotchy ones. Go figure.

ATCs
2 1/2 x 3 1/2
140-lb. hot-press watercolor paper

BACKGROUND:
Dylusions stencil (by Ranger), DYS 34261
Distress Inks, Weathered Wood and Stormy Sky (#1-7); Weathered Wood and Iced Spruce (#8)

FOCAL IMAGE:
Stampendous Stamp, Lone Bird
Versafine Onxy Black Ink
Ranger Superfine Clear Embossing Powder
Swarovski Flatback Rhinestones, SS5, Cosmo Jet
Recollections Pearl Stickers

I followed Heidi's directions; the details are on the challenge blog: http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/userblogpost.asp?id=74851 [twopeasinabucket.com]

I applied the inks directly to the stencil, sprayed it with water, flipped it over and put it on top of the watercolor paper I had sitting on one paper towel. I put a paper towel over the stencil and pressed down lightly with my hand. When I lifted the stencil off the paper, the image was rather splotchy (# 8 above). I tried using a brayer with similar results. I started getting a smoother image when I used 3 or four paper towels beneath the paper and pressed down lightly with my hand followed by brayering (#1-3 above).

I thought the bird image was a good one to use with a watercolor technique because the image isn't precisely drawn. I stamped and heat embossed it. I purposely over-heated the powder to get rid of the raised glossy look. I wanted the darker image, but I didn't want the gloss. If you do that, you need to keep the heat gun moving and back off to allow the paper to cool so you don't burn the paper.

I used both colors of Distress Inks to shade the edges of the ATCs.

I added a very small flatback rhinestone for the eye and adhesive-backed pearls.

TFL.
Daria