Beautiful You was one of the first sets on my must have list and I made 8 cards with it the weekend after Julia won the set during Prize Patrol. I didn’t want to have all 8 post on my blog in a row, but I think maybe I’m spreading them out a bit too much! Beautiful You is a really versatile stamp set; with three beautiful images and eight sentiments it’s able to handle almost any occasion.
I picked out calypso coral for this card and used the colour and my aquapainter to colour in the girl’s dress which was stamped on watercolor paper. One reminder on this – the archival basic black is great, but give it a little time to really dry or your colouring ends up a little grey! I also find it easier (unless I’m doing a big watery wash) to keep very little water in the brush – it’s more controllable. Whilst the dress was drying, I stamped the top of the image again onto the flower design of the calypso coral sheet from the Subtles DSP stack. After snipping around her hat, I glued that in place to give her a fun hat which I matched by covering the envelope flap in the same paper.
Then it was a simple matter of adding a slim basic black mat with fast fuse – a strong adhesive is needed to ensure that the watercolor paper is perfectly flat after it’s been absorbing water. And finally gluing it all onto a calypso coral card base.
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