Today’s card was created with the new Magnolia 3D Embossing Folder. It’s spectacular! This project uses two different techniques. The first is dry embossing. When you use an embossing folder, it’s called “dry” embossing. (The other type of embossing uses embossing powder and is heated with a heat gun.) And the second technique is watercoloring – on the embossed piece. It sounds odd doesn’t it…”water” coloring on “dry” embossing 🙂
Start with a Whisper White card base 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2,” scored at 4-1/4.” Adhere a 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Petal Pink card stock. Cut a 3-3/4″ x 5″ piece of the new Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. Insert it in the Magnolia 3D Embossing Folder and run it through the Big Shot.
Then watercolor the embossed piece using an Aqua Painter. The petals of the flower have been lightly colored with Petal Pink ink; color the center of the flower with Daffodil Delight, and color the leaves with Pear Pizzaz ink. On the leaves, watercolor once then when that dries, go back with a little more ink on the Aqua Painter and emphasize the lines in the leaves. Splatter some Basic Grey ink using a paint brush.
These new Stampin’ Up! 3D Embossing Folders use an additional plate in the Big Shot. It was specially made to produce the best impression with these beautiful folders!
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Beautiful card, Peggy. Love these techniques. Enjoy your day!
Peggy, love this beautiful card !
This techníque would make a fabulous video, Peggy! ? Watercoloring is so popular right now, and seeing how the dry embossed image was painted would be fabulous! ? (If you have time…)
Stunning card, Peggy! I used it a couple of days ago just on cardstock and the impression is wonderful! But on watercolor paper with additional coloring, it is fantastic. Thanks for sharing, Pal!
Gorgeous card! Thanks for the tips on aqua painting. One question…did you mask off the flowers when you added the spatter? Or are you much better at spattering than I am? You have inspired some of my most beautiful cards.
Peggy – I have a separate question for you.
I prefer the raised embossed side of the embossing folder as the viewed image. However, Most of the techniques I find online show painting the watercoloring only on the “debossed” side of the folder.
I was wondering…
Have you ever tried crushing dry watercolor blocks into fine powder (not embossing powder), then, using a dry brush – simply brush dry this watercolor powder onto the top “Embossed” side. Then, after prepping a piece of card stock to your desired size & shape, mist the paper, placing the paper in the folder & running it thru the embossing machine?
What kind of design would appear.
Absolutely LOVE your card! I too wonder if you could add how you protected the magnolia blooms from the splatter. Did you emboss a second paper and fussy cut the blooms and lay them over your card prior to splattering to protect them?
Thank you!
Beautiful, Peggy! TFS
I was SO disappointed when I embossed my paper to realize that the blossom is wider than 5.” why would you create an embossing folder to be used on cards that is too large for a 5×7” card without cutting the image? I wont trust Stampin’ Up! again.