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Friday, April 12, 2013

Muse 12: Watercolour Flowers

Hello Everyone,
This week's Muse card is designed by Therese Calvird. I love it! Instantly I was drawn to the watercolour look of the flower and the large bold sentiment. I was over at Jill Foster's blog and she does some amazing things with watercolouring. I used one of the techniques she demonstrated with Distress Markers. It is really simple. I coloured the flowers with spiced orange, mustard seed and worn lipstick; on the leaves I used pine needles and crushed olive. Then I spritzed with water and sat back while the colours blended. Heat and fussy cut. I wanted them to have a little more sparkle, so I added some rock candy distress stickles to it. The background leaves are stamped with a Hero Arts shadow ink and the sentiment with Ranger jet black Archival. I love the way it turned out. Thanks Therese for the wonderful inspiration and thanks to everyone else for stopping by!

Happy Stamping,
Meg

6 comments:

  1. So so beautiful and the added shimmer is perfect (I'm thinking I might just *need* me some of that rock candy stickles lol)

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  2. Gorgeous work, Meg! Love the sparkles! :-)

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  3. These flowers are awesome!The sparkles are perfect! Great take on this week's Muse - thanks for playing along!

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  4. Such a great take. I love the glitter flowers. TFS AJ-

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  5. This is so awesome, Meg. Your sparkly roses look like stained glass kisses!! Well done!!

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  6. These glittery blooms are wonderful, Meg ... awesome technique on the colouring and I love that you added the Stickles to make them really pop! Love that big bold sentiment too! Thanks so much for your visit and sweet words ... Happy Sunday! Anita :)

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