Saturday, 28 January 2012

Simply Saturday cover a card

Hi, 
Welcome to our last day of Cover-a-Card week. We hope you enjoyed it. 
Today, Gay is showing you how she made her vibrant papers she used on a card and Art Journal page. 
Let us know what you think ;)


I used watercolour paints and painted and covered a large sheet of 300gsm rough watercolour paper, sprayed with cosmic shimmer mica mists and then stamped with IO cover a card Stamps. By cutting the result into strips it was easy to move them about until I achieved the colour contrasts that I was looking for. I punched a large circle to include one of the coloured areas that I really liked. Playing about with the shapes gave me an idea how they could lay on the card and then I chose the sentiments to compliment the shapes created by the strips.


I made a journal page with one of the strips. 


I used Cover a Card Stamps:
Personal Impressions: Just Because
As for water colouring, you have several options on our site:
Watercolour paper can be found in the Specialty paper here



See you next week
Have a great weekend



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8 comments:

  1. Scrapmate28 January 2012 at 09:58

    Amazing colours & what a great idea!

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  2. Miranda28 January 2012 at 10:08

    Like this idea very much, it's the thing I like to do most, playing with paint, water, colour and glimmer......
    I often work with the CAC from IO as I am a designer for the Posthumus shop in the Netherlands. They are the only one who sells IO in the Netherlands. So I am very lucky with those stamps, they are great! It was so nice to see what you've did with them this week!creative greet Miranda

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  3. Julia S-W28 January 2012 at 11:34

    Great idea for using up all those off cuts of colour work which I'm too mean to throw away! Thank you.

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  4. Craftychris28 January 2012 at 11:40

    What a fab idea and I soooo love the colours! xx

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  5. Kirsten Alicia28 January 2012 at 12:15

    Gorgeous colours, I love the end results.

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  6. Margie28 January 2012 at 12:50

    Really enjoying this series of ideas - thanks so much for the inspiration. I have the Inktense blocks but never got round to using them yet - now is the time to get them out!

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  7. Margaret28 January 2012 at 14:19

    Love this idea and being able to utilize the entire sheet makes it even more wonderful!

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  8. Suze Bain28 January 2012 at 22:03

    Fabulous colours. xx

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