Lift Me Up over the Lovely Trees - fun with Brusho Crystal Colour

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The other day, in the post Christmas quiet, I got out the Brusho Colour Crystals again.

Brusho Crystal Colour background and heat embossed hot air balloons

 I knew I wanted to create a tree line and thought I'd make it easier for myself by using the Lovely As A Tree stamp to guide my water application.  So I stamped it in Pear Pizzazz onto the watercolour paper.

The Lovely as a tree image was a helpful guide for where to apply the water

I then liberally applied water (with a mop brush) to the area of the trees and ground and sprinkled on Brusho crystals, starting with yellow towards the top, then green and then blue and overlapping a little.

Once the project is dry, any excess colour crystals can be tapped off 

As you can see - I used plenty of crystals to get a dense colour coverage.  I just left it like this to dry.  Once dry, I tapped the back of the paper to remove the loose crystals.

The remnants on my work surface didn't go to waste!  I spritzed on more water and grabbed some leftover bits of Whisper White cardstock to press into it.  I'll show you what I did with those at a later date!

So this is what it looked like once it had dried.  I decided to use the Lovely As a Tree stamp again to add a bit of definition to my wooded area.

As with any watercolour, the colours dry lighter

I stamped with Early Espresso several times and then didn't like what I'd done!  So I got out a damp brush and softened the stamping a little.  I still didn't love it but it was an improvement!  I then put a tiny amount of the blue crystals in a container and added quite a lot water.  I used this and a wet brush to paint the sky, using more pigment at the top of the card.

I added a wash of blue Brusho for the sky, stamped the trees and then softened with a wet brush

Then I copper heat embossed the balloons from the Lift Me Up stamp set, watercoloured them with Elegant Eggplant ink and cut them out.  Initially, I used the matching dies but I didn't want the white outline around the balloons so I ended up fussy cutting them.

The larger balloon is attached with dimensionals

The larger balloon is adhered with dimensionals.

The base card is Perfect Plum, followed by a layer of Whisper White.

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Lift Me Up Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$37.00

Lovely As A Tree Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$39.00

Brusho Crystal Colour

$52.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

$12.25

Elegant Eggplant Classic Stampin' Pad

$11.50

Versamark Pad

$15.00

Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

$8.75

Watercolor Paper

$8.75

Perfect Plum A4 Card Stock

$14.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

$15.75

Heat Tool

$50.00