Today, I wanted to do a little bit of coloring with my watercolor pencils. I just had to get the Pretty Kitty stamp set from Stampin' Up, because the kitties are so very cute. I haven't had a chance yet to really play with the stamp set, but I did decide to break out this one to watercolor.
The paper I used, for the background and the scallop circle, is from The Coral Couture mat stack by DCWV. I have had this paper in my stash for a couple of years. I cut the scallop circle with my Cricut machine from the patterns already installed on the machine. The glitter paper is from Recollections Black and Gold Halloween from last year. I bought that paper stack for the gold foil pages and the glossy black pages, but I think the glitter card stock here helped to break up the darkness of the background paper.
I used watercolor paper by Strathmore that is cold press and is designed to be practice paper. I like using this paper for coloring when I know that I am not going to be doing a lot of shading or layers. I stamped the image with Archival ink in black in my mini-MISTI. I did have to ink it twice in order for it to be a nice bold line. When I was picking the colors for the flowers, I went with some yellow ones help marry the yellow scallop and the glitter paper with the image. I used Sargent watercolor pencils for all of the coloring. I like these pencils because they melt fully away and they are very vibrant. I just wish the pencils themselves had the color name or number on them.
Lastly, I popped up the kitty with 3D Pop up foam squares and the scallop with Scotch foam tape. I had to do this in order to adhere the scallop over the glitter paper. If you have every used glitter paper than you know that it is very hard to stick anything to it. The 3D pop up squares are bit higher than I like, so I am just trying to use them up.
Over all I think this card came out very cute.
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