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Undercover 

Hallo Everyone

We have another card for

you today - this time we

are by the sea wth

Louise Thomson

"Hi there!

I seem to have gone down a very 

'beachy' route recently without realising

 it - must be in need of a holiday!

Anyway, it is hard to resist the lovely beach

 themed stamps from Impression Obsession...

I stamped this tranquil scene using 

archival ink so that the detail would remain

 when using watercolours. 

It is coloured with inktense pencils which 

are another current favourite of mine.

 

The pencils work fine on their own 

but adding water to them really brings them to life.

 I ran the archival pad around the edge

 of the card to give it a border. 

I masked most of the picture and then sprayed 

with colour bloom for a bit of sheen, 

added more archival ink and some scribbley bits

 with the inktense pencils to give the whole thing 

a slightly antique look.

Next to mount it on to my background. 

It is my first time playing with a cover a card stamp 

so naturally there had to be a bit of experimentation

 before I committed to anything too serious

Take one - inked up with brushos, spritzed with water, 

with a paintbrush dragged across for good measure

 Take two - inked with pale blue VersaMagic pad - 

no good in this instance but I think it would 

have been fine if I had chosen a darker shade of blue

Take three - using Fresco paints applied with cut n dry foam.

Take four - Using distress oxides applied to wet paper. 

Plenty of options to choose from but I went 

with the Frescos this time as I liked the way

 the paint colours blended.

I inked it twice to cover this long thin card. 

If you want a more subtle join you can avoid 

inking all the way to the straight edge, 

however it didn't really matter to me as

 the join was going to be covered up. 

I also gave the card a border using more Fresco paint 

applied directly with a sponge.

I laid out a few scraps of paper from my stash which 

had nice textures to them.

Using an Impression Obsession die I cut a couple

 of nautical shapes and coated them in alchemy wax...

...and layered them all up together.

I added a couple more die cuts and a few 

enamel accents to finish it all off.

Naturally it only seemed right to make the 

card insert and envelope match as well - 

partially inking the cover a card stamp 

worked really well for this."

Materials list:

Impression Obsession stamp – Gary Robertson designs, Seaside Scene

Cover a card stamp - clouds

Archival ink- potting soil

Derwent Inktense Pencils

Impression obsession die - seabirds

Impression obsession die -mini nautical

Fresco paints- turquoise, antarctic, nougat

Color bloom spray – Sorbet

Alchemy wax – Inca gold

Distress oxides- faded jeans, broken china

Cut n dry foam and scraps of 

textured paper from stash

Thank you Louise - loved your

experimentation with the

different colouring mediums.

A great idea to make the

insert and the envelope to match

Think I will carry on the experimentation

this evening - I am particularly impressed

with the Oxides and the Brushos!

'Til tomorrow

Mickie xx