Shabby Christmas in July -Zig Clean Color Watercolor Postcard

Hello, my friends,
Today I am bringing you another project from my series of "Shabby Christmas in July"
This time its a postcard
1. I started with a base of 4 by 6 watercolored cardstock.
2. Printed out Digital design of several images Magnolia Tilda, Xmas trees and postcard stamp with the postage

3. Watercolored images using Zig Clean Color Watercolor Markers - love those markers. Be aware that these markers do not have many pastel shades in it and colors are bright.

4. I sprayed the background, covering main colored image with the Lindy's Gang sprays. Guess what... Should have left only one layer, but by adding the second layer it intensified colors and took away from my soft pastel look that I was going for... So less is more in this case... Or at list try it 1st on the sampler

So I had to come up with a solution on how to soften those bright colors... And I did...
I took a vallum frosted paper embossed it on the edges using the "Polka Dot" embossing folder, creating a look of falling snow and attached embossed layer on top of my watercolored postcard.
That softened by "bright mistake" right the way

Attaching vellum paper can be tricky, BCS it's somewhat transparent. So I used a washi tape
5. I decided that simple look of the frosted postcard isn't enough - so I decorated it further using snowflake stickers and die cut pieces from prima "Santa Baby" collection

Added some heart jingle bells on the mittens from NSK and now postcard had a finished look

Hope you liked my Shabby Chic Xmas postcard...

Stay tuned for more projects from this series...

 Hugs & Kisses,
Natasha

Shabby Christmas in July Mail Art Swap by NSK & Friends

Hello, my friends,
Today I would like to share with you a bundle of projects that were created for "Shabby Christmas in July Mail Art" one on one swap hosted by closed FB group "NSK & Friends"
I decided to challenge myself and do watercolor... Never done it before...
I wouldn't call my project a 100% success, but I can tell you, that I will be doing more of water coloring...
1. We were supposed to create a Mail Art Envelope ( I made two - overachiever)
1st was done with watercolor cardstock and digital collaging techniques
Front

 Back

 2nd was done in true (if such a thing exists) Mail Art techniques: background painted with Lindy's Stamp Gang magical; decoupage (napkins and die cuts from Prima "Santa Baby" collection); stickers and washi tape decoration
Front

 Back

2. We had to make a postcard

3. Of course, we had to include a card: I made layered window senary shabby card  

4. Two shabby tags

5. Surprize... I made altered small rosette embellishments 

Hope you liked my creations...

You are very welcome to watch the video below and/or visit my blog for more posts on each of these projects.
Have a great day,
Hugs & Kisses, Natasha

Brushless Watercolor & Floral Card Tutorial

Well hi there!
So glad to see you here again...
I am taking online Tim Holtz class on Creative Chemistry. Very slowly...because I am still on day 2... Ha-ha!
I decided to make a project one or two with new techniques I'll learn.
Here is my Brushless Watercolor Card...

It is very easy to make... I will show it to you. Lets go!
For this project you are going to need: papers (cardstock & watercolor), die cut of Tim Holts frame, print or stamp of saying...
With the papers... I am not going to give you sizes, but I will explane how it works.
Decide which stamp are you going to use, now cut matching size from watercolor paper (I like to leave some space around image, if something you can cut it down). From here the size of watercolor paper is  your base. Now couple layers are going to create a mat for your brushless watercolored image (cream & blue on the picture). Blue ging to be the first mat, so the size of it slightly larger about 0.5 inch on both sides. For example, if your watercolor paper is 4 by 6 inches, blue would be 4.5 by 6.5 inches. Next cream wll be 5 by 7 inches... Now you can cut base of your card. Fold piece of paper in half and cut to 5.5 by 7.5. Depending on horizontal or vertical image size of the card would be 5.5 by 15 inches ( or 7.5 by 11 inches)... Hopefully I explained myself proper...

And yes, I have two more colored mats. Those are for inside card mat for you journaling. The only difference  is that 1st is cream and 2nd is blue (see sizes above). It is easier to wright on lighter color paper...

With tools you are going to need: disstress inks (any color you like or have), mist with water (use sprins bottle), heat gun, paper glue, stickles and stamp...

Now we all ready, lets start!
1. You need to ink stamp with all colors of inks

2. Spray inked stamp with water. Let inks to blend a little bit...

3. Stamp wet stamp on to watercolor paper and lift it up almost immediately...

4. Dry ink using your heat gun...

Your piece of art is ready. Now we can start to assemble the card...
5. Mat brushless watercolored image disstressing the edges and gluing layers to layer using paper glue...

6. Now you can decorate front of the card by assembling frame with gems or pearls...

7. Finish your card on inside and you are done...

I hope you like it and will try it yourself!
My appology for misspalling.. vacation....
You can watch video on this project...


Hugs & Kisses, Natasha