*originally posted on 7/8/16*
Sometimes you hit upon something interesting while playing around with your stamps. In this edition of Flamingo Fridays, I have posted a card that mostly turned out, but I need to try it again to iron out the kinks. I have posted it because the technique itself is worth exploring.
The big pink bird in Pop of Paradise was stamped on regular copy paper, and then cut out to create a form of mask. (Mistake #1 – I stamped the bird in Melon Mambo, on copy paper. I should have stamped it using a light colour, on a heavier weight paper.) Using dried 2-way glue, I attached the bird to the watercolour paper, and then used an Aquapainter and three shades of ink to colour around him. Once I was finished, I peeled the bird off to reveal the image. A bit of the Melon Mambo seeped through the copy paper as it became wet while watercolouring, and wouldn’t come off the paper, so I took a bit of Melon Mambo ink and coloured around the inner edge of the masked image (Mistake #2 – The tail feathers disappeared a bit because there is too much ink on one end).
I do like the sentiment that is attached over top of the Melon Mambo Thick Baker’s Twine, but the other thing that drives me nuts about this card (aka Mistake #3) is that the image isn’t straight. It’s that OCD thing again. Regardless, I’m definitely trying this again using different layouts, colour combos, and thicker paper. Maybe at the Flamingo stamping night that we are planning…
Come and Play: Pop of Paradise, Basic Gray, Melon Mambo, Watercolour paper, Aquapainters