Watercolor: Part 3 & CAS(E) This Sketch

Back again with yet another card from the techniques introduced on Day 1 of the Online Card Class. This time it was the embossed resist technique which I’ve done before on a smaller scale. I didn’t have a background stamp with the open spaces they recommended but I thought this one called “Tiny Flags” by Hero Arts might work.

I embossed it with gold on the smooth side of Tim Holtz’s watercolor paper, and used Distress Inks to watercolor diagonal stripes, and adhered it to a card made with PTI’s Raspberry Fizz cardstock. The stamp is a very old wooden one by Savvy Stamps. I needed an anniversary card for my brother-in-law and sister-in-law and this looked appropriately festive. The card design is based on this week’s sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch. It couldn’t have been more perfect!

Here’s a closer look at the watercoloring.

We’re off in just an hour or so to celebrate Mother’s Day with Tracy’s mom and siblings. We’re celebrating a day early since his brother, Greg, who’s band was inducted in the Rochester Music Hall of Fame last week, flies back to Texas tomorrow.