Goth Flowers

Hanging out at Neat & Tangled's Birthday Bash again, this time at the Little Tangles technique challenge. 

This card incorporates a few techniques: watercolouring with Distress Inks, masking, highlighting and resist embossing.  

I stamped Dreams onto white card, and covered the banner with Versamark pen and clear embossed so that it would resist any colour.  Then I stamped the flower heads onto the card and masked them with spare paper while I applied Chipped Sapphire and Dusty Concord Distress Inks with a water brush, varying the intensity of the colour.  With the mask still in place I stamped Field of Sky in Chipped Sapphire randomly over the background.  Then I drew some stems and stamped a couple of leaves.  After I removed the masks the flowers looked a bit flat so I added a little pale grey shading to give them a bit of depth.  I also added some white gel pen highlights to the stamens and leaves.  I mounted the piece onto dark blue card, then onto a 148mm sq card so that there was white space either side.

I'm also entering this into Simon Says Monday Challenge, which is DOTTY.

Neat & Tangled: Dreams, Fresh Blooms

A Stamp In The Hand: Field of Sky

Distress Inks: Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord

Sakura Gelly Roll White Pen

Versamark Pen