Begonia

Hello-

It is Saturday, and I am spending the day catching up on challenges.  Several are due soon and I want to make sure to play along.

Since January I've rediscovered the CAS suite of challenges (stencil, watercolor, Christmas and mixup)  I've come to love these, because I learn techniques and because of due dates, I have to play with that technique.  So it goes from oh that looks fun I'll have to try that sometime (some have been waiting years) to play soon or now.  So thanks Ladies, for the push!

This one is for CAS Watercolor, the challenge is watercolor on Vellum.  I stamped and embossed a begonia and a couple of leaves on some medium weight vellum. Then I turned them over and added color with artesia brush pens.  I bled the color out with a water brush.  Then I waited for it to dry.  I added a second layer of color and water and more waiting.

I wanted a dramatic card and I had quite a bit of warping of the vellum, so I used white card stock covered with stick it and attached the colored images.  I die cut them, and trimmed down the white edges.  I decided how to place the bloom and leaves, then added a gold embossed sentiment to a navy card base. The begonia and leaves were then adhered to the base.  I really love how the color pops on the dark base.

Thanks for visiting.