{Spotlight Project} Shirley Sloshes Coordinating Backgrounds

Hi peeps! Today I'm sloshing backgrounds on my cards to match the focal images.

I started with the Thinking of You card.

I watercoloured the image from Thank You Coffee using an ink that I don't normally care for, but it's a great colour for monochromatic colouring.

Once it was dry I fussy cut it, not leaving any white space around the edges. TIP: To cut out the white waste in the handle, I cut down the black stamp line of the cup past the top of the handle, then cut out the hole, and the handle just sits back in place. You can always stick a bit of tape behind it if it's not lying flat.

Then I loaded a No.8 round brush with the ink and sloshed it on my base card. As a loose guideline I made some pencil marks where I wanted my image to be and rubbed them out afterwards.

I deliberately didn't colour the centre because (a) I didn't want to overload the card with watercolour and (b) I wanted some white to show through in places behind the cut-out image.

As it happened, the area around and behind the handle ended up white, so I needn't have cut the centre out. You can see a little white peeping through behind the rosebud stem. The sentiment is from Layered Holly.

I repeated the process with the A Cup of Roses stamp. Again, I used a colour I wouldn't normally go for.

Fussy cut the image, then watercoloured the front of my card.

And added a sentiment from Big Greetings.

Here's another look at both cards together.

And here's what I used:

Layered Holly, Big Greetings, Thank You Coffee

  

A Cup of Roses