Wei Wei's Crafting Garden: Clearly Besotted

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Just for you

Hi everyone, Today I would like to share a card I created for celebrating my friend's birthday.

I really love these gorgeous flowers from Simon Says Stamp and Clearly Besotted!

I think those tiny details in flowers are suitable for heat embossing and watercoloring.

For my card, I just heat embossing those flowers in white embossing power onto watercolor paper. I wanted to create a vase with bouquet, so I used masking technique repeatedly. After that, I sprayed some water on watercolor paper and painted those flowers with watercoloring.

Then, I stamped the sentiment beside the vase.

At the end, white and clear sequins were the final touches for this card.

大家好，今天與大家分享的卡片靈感來自瓶花，印章品牌是Simon Says Stamp 和 Clearly Besotted。其中SSS的這組印章線條很細膩，我覺得很適合利用白色燙凸和水彩來表現。

為了要呈現瓶花的感覺，我重複了Masking技巧很多次，才能既呈現原有花的細膩線條，又不至於太多雜亂。等到燙凸都乾了後，我用水彩很隨性地暈染，任顏料自然融合與流動。最後才加上黑色的字章以及白色和透明色的亮片。順帶一提，最近卡片界很流行亮片風，幾家大廠牌都紛紛推出五顏六色可愛亮片!

I really love this soft and dreamy watercoloring effect!

Well, that is all from me today. Thanks for joining me!

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Simon Says Let’s Get Sentimental

Monday, April 6, 2015

Hope your day is as sweet as you are

Hi there! Have you had a good weekend? Have you been able to get in any crafty time lately? I hope so!

I was very busy in my work recently, so I have no time to create my card.

Eventually, I was able to sneak in my craft room for a bit on Sunday to put together a card for a sweet friend of mine.

Here is my card.

I started by stamping my little flower onto kraft with StazOn white ink. Next, I colored them with colour pencils. I also painted the edge of the flowers with Copic.

I wanted to add a little more dimension , so I cut a few flowers with foam behind them.
Then, I added some pearls on the pistil. To give this card more layer, I attached the kraft to another kraft which has some black lace pattern I stamped before.

To finish it off, I stamped a "Hope your day is as sweet as you are" sentiment with Memento ink.

這張白雛菊卡片的作法：
首先，將蓋上StazOn白色印泥的雛菊印章(JustRite的印章)，蓋在牛皮紙上。之所以選用StazOn印台主要是考量顯色，因為我用的牛皮紙會吸水，且目前手邊有的VersaCraft白印台的蓋印效果，沒有StazOn來的顯色。但是用StazOn的缺點就是要用專門的油性印泥清潔液清理，且很傷透明印章。
上一階段的蓋印運用了遮蔽技法，但為了再增加這張卡片的層次，又另外用泡棉膠黏了兩層雛菊。且為區隔前後效果，後面的雛菊用色鉛筆上了一層淡色，並用灰色copic在花的外框描繪一圈，前面的則不上色。
最後再蓋上字章(Clearly Besotted的印章)，並加上珍珠及麻繩點綴。