Watercoloring and embossing

I wanted to try a new technique yesterday and it came out so good on my card, I thought I would do a sort of tutorial on it. I haven't used my Martha WWatercolors in a while, but found out through some videos that they work well with an aqua painter. Basically, it's a paintbrush with water inside. I wanted to see if I embossed each color seperately if it would give a good outlined dark color but not be too much- it worked out great! Listed above are the tools that I used, including my embossing markers, powder, Marth markers, embossing gun, a zig marker, scrap paer to wipe the aqua brush off and my printed design.



I started of using my zig marker and just outlining the image. I didn't do this carefully, just wanted a sort of drawing look.

I then used my dark green and brown embossing marker and outlined the tree, and then used my heat gun to emboss it after putting the clear embossing powder on top.

I did the same thing with the sand and grass using the lighter brown and green colors. I also did the blue water and ripples.

I used my Martha "Putty" and made two lines under the embossing brown.

Using my Aqua Painter, I spread out the brown down to the grass.

I did the tree here with Chestnut and Evergreen markers

The grass was using the Glade color marker, spreading it with water and wiping clean after each color.

I used Cornflower for the water, just coloring around the outlines and finishing with the aqua painter.

I used Cornflower on the top of the pier and also on top of the sand dune.

If you noticved in teh top pics, I had a finger print on the left side, I just cut it off and inked the edges to make sure that it would still look okay :)

Now the finishing touches- I added some more Putty under the grass.

Inked the edges and blended the sand some more and here is the finished design. On my original one, I sprayed it with glitter mist, but it took a long time to dry and I didn't want to wait this time around :)

Fiskars Embossing Plate and your Cuttlebug

I remember seeing a post on this somewhere, and tried it with my own supplies. I got my silicone mat from mt grandma at Christmas. I don't think she intended me to cut it up and use it for my crafting, but I still have two more after this one is used up. You can find the same things at home stores all over.

This baking sheet is flat on one side and the other has a slightly rough texture. Cut the siliconre to the size of the cuttlebug spacer plate.


So once you have the silicone cut to size the sandwich gose like this. Place your A spacer in the cuttlebug machine

Then your Fiskars texture plate with the side you want to emboss facing up.

Then your card stock

Then the silicone sheet...smooth side down...you can see here in this pic the texture of the rough side. Depending on the thickness of your cardstock, you may have to use two pieces of the silicone.

Lastly, lay your C spacer on top

Please remember whatever you run through your cuttlebug that is not designed for that machine is done at you own risk so take it easy the first time you run it through as the silicone you choose may be a different thickness as was Tamara's found here.