Polychromatic

Hello again, and today I'm sharing a card that I was inspired to do after taking Altenew Academy's Polychromatic class. There's a wealth of information in this class and I especially liked the details about using colors in different ways.

For this card I stamped the image from Altenew's Needlework Motifs set in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with a satin pearl embossing powder. I don't remember what brand it was as it is very old. Then I used Zig Clean Color real brush markers to paint the images and blended with a fine paint brush and  a water brush.Some of the areas within the embossed lines were so fine that I had to use a #2 paint brush to blend.

Fussy cutting an image this fine was not an option as the vines would not look right after cutting them out so I needed to do a background. I used Molotow masking fluid and applied it to the entire painted image. This masking fluid is water based, and in hindsight I realized I should have done this in reverse, masked the image, done the background, and after removing the masking fluid, paint the details.

 However, I continued and after the masking fluid was completely dry I used the same colors that I painted the image with and applied a watercolor wash by scribbling them onto an acrylic block and spritzing them with water and applying them to the background. I decided I needed some darker spots, so I used Altenew's Ocean Waves Watercolor Brush Marker to splatter the background.

I let this dry and removed the masking fluid with an adhesive-remover eraser and die cut it with a stitched rectangle die. Where the masking fluid blended some of the colors I added more color with the brush markers.

 I used a piece of matching green cardstock and ran it through the die cutting machine with Altenew's Dotted Swirls Debossing Cover die which only added tiny holes in the cardstock. To make sure the watercolor paper stayed flat I affixed a rectangle of fun foam to the back which also gave it dimension.

The sentiment is from Altenew's Heartfelt Sentiiments set and I used silver embossing powder on a strip of vellum cardstock and wrapped it around the entire piece and then added it to a white card base.

For a final touch I added green and blue jewels from Little Things from Lucy's Cards.

Thanks for looking!