Tobi Crawford – Poinsettia Card – White and Watercolor!

Tobi is back this week with another card using the terrific Cling Poinsettia Background stamp! She’s got a challenging technique for you today. We’d love to see you try it and link  your samples to our linky tool in the right sidebar for a chance to win some great Embossing Powder prize packages.  Then be sure to join us first thing Monday morning for a terrific, week-long Blog collaboration with our friends at May Arts Ribbon!! You have until Thursday, October 4 to link your Embossing Technique cards to our linky tool!

Hi there! It’s BlogStar Tobi Crawford here with a lovely traditional Christmas card. I know that I’ve only made a handful of Christmas cards this year, but this is definitely my favourite so far! If it weren’t so hard to execute I would make more… Here is my card made with Cling Poinsettia Background and a very useful sentiment Perfectly Clear Stamp™ set called ‘Tis The Season.

Like many of you, I LOVE Pinterest, and I have pinned a lot of cards lately featuring techniques using white embossing powder. For this project I used our standard Detail White Embossing Powder on watercolour paper. This technique was a challenge because this stamp is quite busy – it’s designed to be a background stamp – and it’s hard to see white-on-white; but once I started colouring in the poinsettias it started to get a little easier to see the design.

Here are the steps I took to colour this card:

1. Colour poinsettia petals with various red watercolour markers
2. Colour leaves with various green watercolour markers
3. Colour background with light aqua watercolour markers
4. Using a waterpen, go over the coloured areas by colour (first do all the red, clean off the brush, then the green etc…)
5. Mist the entire design lightly with gold or pearlescent glimmer mist

I found that I had to check my perfectionist tendencies at the door because the colours were going to run together no matter what, and in my opinion it turned out having a really elegant look for such a haphazard technique! Hope you’ll try it soon!