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WF15-Old/New Be True to You

This is for djc's Old/New Winterfest challenge.
The image stamp is one of my early, early stamp purchases. It says "Dotty's Darlin's" c1994 Orem, Utah on the side.
Back in the day ... I would have stamped it in black and probably colored it with colored pencils or maybe markers. At Daria's suggestion ... I went to a few stamping blogs and found that one of the new trends seems to be "no line distress watercoloring". I inked the stamp with Archival Watering Can, stamped off on scratch paper and stamped on watercolor paper. I pressed distress ink to an acrylic block and using a wet brush, I watercolored the image. The hair was too fine, so I used a dampened watercolor pencil (brown) to go over the faint lines. I used Golden molding paste through a stencil to add "be true to you". I then added an ombre watercolor wash with distress ink. After the fact, I wish I did the watercolor wash first to keep the lettering whiter, instead I went over the raised lettering with a white marker


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Conniecrafter   [Feb 23, 2015 at 06:10 PM]
cute, great way of combining old and new
howdyheidi   [Feb 23, 2015 at 06:18 PM]
She is a super cute stamp, I like this a lot. I am too chicken to try the no line watercoloring. I livke your pink ombre background and the paste sentiment shows up much better than I would have thought. TFS!
Far North   [Feb 23, 2015 at 06:40 PM]
Great card Cindi...you sentiment is a classic!
yellowcherrios   [Feb 23, 2015 at 09:30 PM]
I love this! The stamp is so cute and the raised sentiment is really cool!! TFS!
CarefreeSadie   [Feb 23, 2015 at 09:31 PM]
Lovely, just lovely. I would have thought the saying was embossed instead of modeling paste. I really like the way the distress ink is on the background. Thank you for sharing.
Craft Nerd   [Feb 23, 2015 at 09:51 PM]
She is really cute. And your no line watercoloring came out great. I really need to give that technique a try.
djc   [Feb 23, 2015 at 11:22 PM]
I love this! This is so cool. Your image is wonderful, and I love all the techniques you used on this card. I'd seen a video of the no-line distress watercoloring, and it's on my To-Do List. It may have just jumped to the top. Great sentiment for this image. Thank you for playing. Daria
lovepug2   [Feb 24, 2015 at 02:55 PM]
This is fantastic! I love your bg and you did a wonderful job on the no line watercoloring, TFS Smile
stampwilly   [Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 PM]
This is so cute! I love how you made your card! Very Happy

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