Hello! Hope you are having a good week! A week or so ago I finally got my hands on the gorgeous Essentials by Ellen Mondo Sakura stamp set. It sold out quite quickly once it was released by Ellen Hutson and I wasn't able to get one. Then it came back in stock, but I think it sold out, again. Finally third time was a charm for me! I stamped it on Bristol cardstock with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then I colored the image with Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and a water brush. I'm not very good at all with a water brush so my first effort didn't turn out very well. I think it had to do with the fact that I was trying to use my ZIG markers. The end result was bad, but it wasn't great either. So I switched to my Gansai Tambi watercolors and things turned out much, much better. I actually pretty proud of my effort. Anyway, once the image was dry I die cut it with the matching die. I then did a light wash of pink and yellow on a piece of watercolor paper. I let it dry and then splattered it with the same color paints and some black paint. I trimmed down the fully dry panel and then adhered the die cut piece to the panel. Because I didn't want to cover up the image I stamped the sentiment on vellum with watermark ink and heat embossed it in white. That was adhered with glue dots. The layout is courtesy of Freshly Made Sketches so I will be posting it there as well as with the Essentials by Ellen color trend challenge since I used a couple of the colors from the palette.
Hope you have wonderful day...
Supplies: Cardstock: kraft, Bristol, watercolor paper; Stamps and dies: Essentials by Ellen; Ink: VersaFine CLAIR, VersaMark watermark ink; Watercolor medium: Kuretake Gansai Tambi; Embossing powder: Hero Arts
