One of my favorite new products from the Occasions Catalog is the Special Reason bundle. I really like the sentiments included with the stamp set, and I especially like the way the floral framelits work.
The dies work in pairs, with one die cutting out just the petals, in case you want to use the negative space as I did with the larger flower on my card. You can also use just the outline of the flower if you wanted to cut out the stamped image. The third way is to use the petal die and the outline die together to get the pretty thin flower outline piece. There are two sizes of the flowers. There are also two label framelits, and you can use these separately to make the two different sizes of labels, or together to create the label outline.
I layered all three ways to make the flowers on this card. The colors I used are Night of Navy, Crushed Curry and Cucumber Crush.
Hi everyone! Today I wanted to show you some fun cards that I made using a Framelit as a stencil.
I started by choosing a Framelit and tracing it with a thin Sharpie marker. You need to use a Sharpie or other water proof marker so that the outline doesn't bleed when you start to paint. I made a video showing how to overlay the colors with an Aqua Painter in a way that still allows you to see the different shades without the colors becoming muddy or bleeding too much.
In this version, rather than painting the hearts with a solid color, I used markers to add patterns to the hearts, then used the Aqua Painter on the marker areas to intentionally bleed the colors and patterns. There is a quick video on how to do that.
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