Hi everyone, today I have a fun and bright card to share with you using the two editions of the Derwent Inktense Paint Pan Travel Sets.

Step 1:

I started my card project by stamping the flower image from the Kennedy Grace Creations “Splendid Roses” stamp set onto Clairefontaine Multi-Techiques á Grain paper (the blue one) using Versafine “Onyx Black” ink and clear heat embossing afterwards.

Then I started colouring the image with the Fuchsia colour from the second Travel Set, defining where my highlights and my shadows should go. I worked in layers, each time darkening a little more.

Step 2:

When I was happy I added in another colour to create the feeling of depth: for this I mixed the Fuchsia colour with the French Ultramarine colour from the same set (creating a nice purple) and adding that over the pink colour that I already had. Don’t pull this purple colour over the pink entirely, just create deeper shadows where they are needed. This is the ugly duckling stage! Just work on it a little more, it will pass!

Step 3:

To merge the pink and the purple colour together again, creating a better balance so to say, I added another layer of the Fuchsia, making sure that I didn’t loose my highlights.

Then I started working on the leaves: for this I used the first Travel Set: I mixed Sun Yellow with Bright Blue to create a green that looks nice for roses and added my first layers.

Step 4:

To brighten it up a bit I then added a bit of the mixture Sun Yellow with Teal Green (which is a brighter green mix, but in the same colour family as the previous one).

Step 5:

And to finish the leaves I added another layer of the first green mixture that I used before. Around the roses I painted with a pastel yellow colour created with a mixture of Sherbet Lemon and Antique White for the second Travel Set. This brightens the whole image and creates distance between the rose petals and the background.

To add in a bit more highlights I next used my white Gelly Roll Pen.

Step 6:

I fussy cut the rose image leaving a small yellow border. Then it’s time to work on my background design. For this I die cut a square panel from the same Clairefontaine paper that I used for the roses. On this square panel I stamped one of the sentiments from the same Kennedy Grace Creations stamp set, using Archival Ink in “Jet Black”.

Then I applied some The Crafter’s Workshop “Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste” over a The Crafter’s Workshop stencil (TCW824s) using a palette knife and set that aside to dry.

When dry I applied some Lindy’s Stamp Gang Magical in “Bling-y Blonde” on the square panel, using a dry fan brush, then I sprayed the panel with water, which makes the colour run and drying with my heat tool when I liked what I had. This I repeated until the yellow background colour was dark enough for my liking.

To finish the background I created splatters with the same Derwent Inktense Fuchsia colour that I used for painting the roses (for this you only have to mix a bit of the pigment with water and splatter using a brush).

To put my card together I die cut a slightly larger square panel from matching green card stock, then I adhered both panels together using liquid glue. Next I adhered these combined panels to a white line textured card base using one millimetre thick foam tape and adhered the rose image on top also with one millimetre thick foam tape!

Detail picture:

And that’s it for today’s project! I wish you a creative day!

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