Welcome to the second monthly blog hop from the Around the World on Wednesday Design Team. The Around the World Blog Hop was created by the beautiful Angie Mckenzie and I am so humbled to have been asked to join this incredibly talented group of Stampin’Up!® Demonstrators from all around the world. The Around the World Blog Hop will go live on the second Wednesday of each month.
This months theme is All Things Crafty II, showcasing our all time favourite colouring tool! I consider the most underestimated yet incredibly versatile colouring tool would have to be the Aqua Painter! It is my all time favourite tool as it makes water colouring so satisfying and I adore how the results are always different!
I love how the delicate flowers from the Bloom and Grow Stamp set pop off the page on the Whisper White background. I have embossed the floral image twice with White embossing powder onto Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper. Using my aqua painter I like to draw the Night of Navy ink and start at the centre of each petal, adding my colour and then wiping the excess from my nib to then colour in the rest of the petal. This gives a beautiful deeper colour towards the centre of each petal and then fading out to a much softer tone. Water colouring with the Aqua Painter adds beautiful light and dark intonation to any image.
I have water coloured the leaves using Old Olive ink closer to the stem and then using the Aqua Painter I have dragged Garden Green ink to the very tips to give them more depth. Once dried cut your images out with the Budding Blooms Dies. The sentiment You are simply Wonderful is stamped onto Whisper White cardstock and then cut to size using your Trimmer. To complete the card I Embossed the centre panel with the Tufted 3D embossing folder and added Linen thread and some beautiful sequins.
It wouldn’t be a day in my craft room without using my Aqua Painter! What is your all time favourite colouring tool? I hope you will give my favourite tool a whirl.
Next up is my beautiful friend Cheryl Miller , I cant wait to see what her favourite colouring tool is!
Emma Goddard, Special Guest – UK
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Happy Stamping,
Love Cazz x
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Beautiful card Cazz. Love the shading you’ve got with the aqua painters.
Thank you for your kind words x
Fabulous card Cazz, those lovely flowers really do pop off the page! xxx
Thank you so much Cheryll! xoxo
Gorgeous Cazz! Love it!
Thanks so much beautiful xo
What a beautiful card!
Thank you so much Danielle x
Stunning card! I love the tufted EF you used, it adds depth to the card.
Its one of my favourite embossing folders! Thank you for your kind words x
Beautiful!
Thank you so much Shel x
Very nice work full of elegance and sweetness, I like it a lot. xX
Thank you so much Aurélle xo
Beautiful! Love the beautiful shading you created. This technique is a favorite of mine too!
Thank you so much Sharon x
This is “simply wonderful”! I love watercolor with white embossing.
Sometimes the simply things turn out so pretty! Thank you x
You are an amazing watercolor-er!! Gorgeous flowers!! 🙂
Thank you so much Mary! x
Beautiful card! I love the affect of this technique.
Thanks so much Teri x
Beautiful Carolyn, I love the colours and the white embossing is so effective.
Thanks so much Melissa! White embossing is my favourite!
Beautiful card! I usually just watercolor backgrounds and love the idea of embossing with white, then cutting it out & coloring. Thanks so much!
Aww thank you so much Cheryl! Ill be honest ive never done a background so its on my list of things to do this weekend x
Love seeing your work…you are amazing….feel very fortunate to have met you while in NZ…Hope you are doing well!!!
Oh Fran what a lovely thing to say! Ill be honest its been a very long road to recovery but I am in the last month touch wood back on track!!! yahoo! Thank you for your beautiful comments you have made my day xo
Simply beautiful card. Love your watercolored flowers.
Aww thank you so much Tricia! Its so relaxing to do xo
So glad I’m not the only one who can’t live without an aqua painter or two or more!!! Your card is delightful and the watercoloring is impeccable. Thanks for hopping Around the World on Wednesday with us, Cazz! xx
I wouldn’t know what to do without my aqua painter! Thank you so much for inviting me to be a part of this super talented group xoxo
Stunning card Cazz, love the blue so pretty x
Thank you so much beautiful xo
Thank you so much my lovely friend xo