Hey there, good to see you and I hope you’re having a great week. Today I am featuring a card that I created and entered into 2 card challenges. The first challenge had a colour scheme to follow…..lovely soft pinks, turquoise and blues and this helped me decided on my theme. I wanted to use the colours in a lovely soft background wash, heat emboss over it and colour in. Then to top it off, I decided to turn it into an eclipse card! Thus this distress oxide watercolour and polychromos colouring card turned into a lovely soft birthday card, ready in my stash to send. Read on to find out how it came together.
* for a list of supplies, see the end of the post.
distress oxide watercolour and polychromos colouring card details
To start, I added a clear wash of water to a card panel using a flat brush. Next, I gradually added in distress oxides colours into the wash using a round brush, blending the colours together. Once completely dry, I stamped in versamark, a floral stamp and leaf from Mama Elephants Pretty Floral stamp set. As I was embossing this, I didn’t mask any of the images. Instead, when every a print overlapped, I used a small paintbrush to brush away any embossing powder that overlapped.
After heat setting this, I coloured the floral and leaf images in using Polychromos. When colouring with polychromos, start off lightly and build the colour up. The white works well to blend the colours.
To make the eclipse
For the sentiment, I used the ‘Happy’ die from Altenew and cut this from the card panel – make sure you keep all the inners for a finished look later. I layered 3 black happy die cuts and applied the cut out from the panel on top. The card panel was adhered to an A2 horizontal top folding card base and the layered die was inserted back into the card panel.
Remeber the inners we save from the initial die cut, make sure you adhere these back into the card panel for a professional finished look. The sentiment was finished with a white heat embossed ‘birthday’ onto black card which was foam mounted onto the front. Lastly, the cad was embellished with a selection of Jewels from the Rainbow Sparkle Mix from Lucys Cards.
distress oxide watercolour and polychromos colouring card photos
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Challenges
This card was entered into two challenges:
- Severn Hills Craft VIPs June challenge on the Facebook group
- WOW! Embossing – Anything Goes (June) on the facebook group
Supplies
Stamps:
Mama Elephant – Pretty Floral
Altenew – Cake Lover
Inks:
Distress oxides: Tattered rose, Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock feathers and Salty Ocean
Embossing powder:
WOW! Embossing – Opaque Bright White
Polychromos:
White 101, Pink Madder Lake 129, Daft Blue 141, Emerald Green 163 and Light Green 171.
TO SEE ANOTHER CARD USING DISTRESS OXIDES, CHECK OUT THIS POST HERE.
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*this post was NOT sponsored, requested, or paid for; I have written it because I wanted to. The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I’m not an expert and I don’t work for these companies.
3 thoughts on “Challenge card: Distress Oxide watercolour and Polychromos colouring”
This card is so beautiful. You’ve made such a stunning birthday card that anyone would love to revise. I might just have to try it!
Thank you Nancy ?