love story

Love Story

Well the sun is finally shinning here in the big D, adobe is working

for the time being, and blogger is actually letting me upload

photos!!!!!!!! I finally get to post woooo hooooo!!!!!!!!! Ok, for

your viewing pleasure is a lo I did using the IOD paintable water

color paper. See previous post for details on paper. The flowers and

leaves were colored with prismacolor pencils(click here for a list of

prismas that match SU colors) spring green(pc913) for SU gable green,

canary yellow(pc916) for SU yoyo yellow, process red(pc994) for SU

pink passion, non- photo blue(pc919) for SU tempting turquoise. I used

the magic gamosal technique with blending stumps from hobby lobby, and

odorless mineral spirits that I bought at ace hardware. The border and

the text backgrounds were made by taking my Niji watercolor brush and

dipping it in pink passion and tempting turquoise(Pushing the ink pad

down on a page protector created a nice pool of ink to water color

with, for me. You can also use re-inkers, I just don't have any,YET.)

The text was made in Word and printed off on vellum. The ribbon is

also from the IOD Prima line. The title was from DCWV vellum quote

stack(wedding and romance) that I water colored the back of with pink

passion. It dried bumpy and I kinda liked that rough look. The picture

overlay is from my minds eye bohemia collection. Heres a close up of

the journaling entry.

All and all I really like how it turned out. The picture doesn't