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March ATC Watercolor Flight

I rarely stamp in multiple colors, but in this case I used small inkpads to stamp the pine needles, pine cones, the bird and it's legs.
I heat embossed with clear embossing powder before watercoloring the background with distress ink and sponging the edges. I painted the bird with Cretacolor watercolor pencils and used a wet brush and paper towel to remove color in a few spots near his eye. I was worried about stamping the text over bumpy embossing. Normally I might stamp on tissue paper ... but I had a white basket style coffee filter in front of me (to catch EP), so I stamped on that. I glued it down with matte multi-medium and it worked like a charm!

Stamps : Dina Wakley scribbly bird and verse, Stampendous Ponderosa pine
Inks : chalk and pigment inks for the images, archival for the verse, distress for the background
ATC : cut from Canson 140lb watercolor paper

TFL! Thanks for the challenge Lovepug2!


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howdyheidi   [Mar 21, 2015 at 10:40 AM]
Pretty! The coffee filter worked out great!
Looser   [Mar 21, 2015 at 10:45 AM]
Terrific, Cindi! Wouldn't have spotted the filter paper if you hadn't shared using it. Very Happy
lovepug2   [Mar 21, 2015 at 12:43 PM]
So pretty and I love the light shine it has. I love bw you inked up the image, I rarely do that too but it really works here. Love the sentiment and even in person you really have to look for the coffee filter. Great ATC, thanks for sharing Smile
Far North   [Mar 21, 2015 at 02:31 PM]
Birds are such a wonderful spring time greeting! DW bird stamps are so fun!!
Craft Nerd   [Mar 21, 2015 at 06:22 PM]
That sentiment is lovely. I really like that bird. And the coffee filter worked perfectly.
CarefreeSadie   [Mar 22, 2015 at 03:27 PM]
This is very pretty. I like the design of this ATC. TFS

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