Sapphire Zen Lady

Hi everybody, hope you got chance to see Annelise and Alice on Hochanda at the end of January.  If you did and want to know a little more about how I made the Sapphire card, well here is how I made it.

Here is what you will need:
A4 stamping card
Copier paper
Sapphire Zen Lady stamp set from Colourific
Watercolour paints
Mid Blue Harmony ink pad by Spectrum Noir
Black Soot Distress ink
Versafine Onyx Black
Light blue card for Matting
Mid Blue Card for matting
A5 card blank

Here’s White I made this card
1. Using the Versafine ink pad, stamp the main image in the centre of an A5 piece of stamping card.
2.  Set the ink using a heat gun.
3.  Colour using watercolour paints.
4.  Stamp the image again on copier paper and cut out - this will be used as a mask.
5.  Blend the mid blue ink pad around the outside of the card - use the mask you have just used over your painted image to protect it from the blue.
6.  Blend the Black Soot distress ink around the outside of the card to give it depth. This helps draw the eye into the main image.
7.  Trim the card down by half a cm on each edge.
8.  There are a few small doodle stamps in the stamp set, I used these on the blue background mixing up the designs - I stamped them in Versafine.
9.  Mount onto the light blue card then onto the mid blue card.
10. Finally mount onto the A5 card base.

Want to change colours - I used the same principles on these two too - on the red one, instead of stamping the doodles onto the background, I sprinkled water into the red ink and blotted it off.

Why not try your own colour ways and post them in the Colourific Corner so that we can all see 😁

Bye for now
Maria
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