I haven’t played with Beautiful You lately; the retirement of the Sale-a-bration items as of today meant that I wanted to play with them as much as possible before losing them. But back to one of my favourite sets now.

I stamped two of the three images in the archival basic black onto watercolor paper and then used an unusual for me colour combination of tempting turquoise and tangerine tango. It’s good to shake things up a bit. I used an aquapainter to add the color to the ladies and then added the sentiment. The aquapainter is a bit intimidating to start with – I find it’s best not to have too much water in it to start with. It’s easier to control then – unless you’re trying to do a background and spread loads of water.

This card then sat in the box that I made to hold a number of these cards and it just felt slightly unfinished. Fast forward to this morning when I stamped the umbrella onto a scrap of watercolor paper and colored it in using an aquapainter. I cut it out and popped it up with dimensionals. I am really happy with this extra piece – the umbrella now seems so much more lifelike since the girl’s head really is inside the umbrella. I framed this with a skinny mat of basic black and put all of it onto a tempting turquoise card base.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz