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The Background of Watercolor NYC

June 11, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

This card explains in a nutshell why I am such a fan of designing and using background stamps.

Starting with a pale celery green background, I wanted to create a gritty, urban feel with lots of depth. I stamped several background stamps, as follows:

  • P027 Paid in Full, in Stazon Ganache and Stazon Blue Hawaii, randomly pounced on the surface
  • P010 Travel Documents, in Stazon Cloudy Sky
  • P020 Wasted, in Memento Luxe Espresso Truffle
  • S633 Watercolor NY, in Stazon Ganache
  • S569 Let it Go, in Stazon Claret

These were mounted on a dark brown cardstock and then a matching celery cardstock, edged with the Stazon Blue Hawaii.

I quickly zapped it with a heat embossing tool to make sure everything was dry. Then I painted a few of the buildings with Art Anthology Velvet paints in Kona, Aloha, and Cotton Candy. I gave all of these areas a wash of Kona over the top to neutralize the colors and make them more cohesive.

So that is the background behind this card. You can easily create your own vintage-inspired background papers!

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About Sally Lynn MacDonald

Profile photo of adminSally Lynn often mixes her love of creating and teaching art with her high-tech side – blending a love of handmade art with hybrid-digital media in what she playfully calls her ‘studio lab’. Every now and then her large-format printer is subjected to printing on a surface that definitely is not listed in the owners’ manual.

She is a maven for studio organization, using her abilities to use spreadsheets and databases to bring order from chaos. “It’s marvelous when the right and left brain actually work together in the studio!” Read More…

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