His & Hers: Day One

Today is the first day of the latest Online Card Classes course “His & Hers.” I created two cards, which technically qualify as “hers.” That being said, I feel that the second one is more masculine (probably because there’s no pink in it) than the first. 🙂

I loosely followed the cards shown by Kristina Werner in class today. For the first card, I colored the flower stamp with distress inks and a water brush. The texture of the watercolor paper gives this card a distinct look.

For the second card I colored the flowers with Copics. I have more Copic experience than watercolor experience, so I was more comfortable coloring this card. I felt I had more control with the coloring than I did with the watercolors.

Something I particularly liked with Kristina’s cards, which I did on my cards as well, was to cut the panel at 3 3/4″ x 5″ giving a 1/4″ border on the card base.

Supplies: Hero Arts “Antique Flowers and Butterflies”; Hero Arts “Good Friends”; Copics: YR31, YR15, YR18, YG13, YG17, Y19; Distress Markers “Barn Door”, “Spiced Marmalade”, “Peeled Paint”