Hello, it's Verity with another video and blog post as a Creative team member for WOW! Watercolour
backgrounds can be so easy to make, as
well as fun, and when you make them our can often create a lot in one go. Today
I'm showing you 3 ways to add foils over your watercolour backgrounds - this is
great if you have a stack f unused watercolour backgrounds to use up. But don't
worry, I'm creating 3 quick backgrounds in this video today if you need some
quick and easy backgrounds to make. Foiling can really add a touch of glam to
your watercolour backgrounds, and WOW! Have so many colours to choose from
you'll be able to pair up a foil with your background in no time.
Fab Foils over watercolour backgrounds Video Tutorial:
Fab Foils over watercolour backgrounds written tutorial:
The first background uses a flat brush to apply clean clear water to watercolour card. Next using the Primar Marketing Tropicals watercolour pan set along with a round brush, pick up number 20 with your brush and dab the
colour randomly onto the card. For the second colour use number 22 a lovely pink and add this down towards the bottom making sure to
overlap the colours to blend them. Now you need to remember, watercolours dry
back paler then the colour your apply. So to intensify the colours, use your dual speed heat gun from WOW on heat setting 1 to dry the
panel. This setting is great for this,
as this will dry your panel without too much heat which would warp the panel. Once dry, go back in
adding some clear water again and repeating the process to intensify the
colours for a vivid background.
For the second
background, again add clear clean water to the background and then use PinkFresh Studio liquid watercolours. These are great as they come
with little droppers so you can drop the colour into the water. When you do
this, the colour just spreads and creates interesting patterns. So the colours used for this background are sky blue, Aquamarine and Sapphire.
The third panel
was created in a similar manner to the first panel with clean clear water on the
card and then dabbing colour in with a round pain brush. The watercolours I
used on this background are from the Altenew Watercolour pan set and I used Pink
Diamond, Puffy Heart, Purple Wine and Comsic Berry. These panels were left to
dry whilst i started working on some of the foiled elements for the cards.
Technique 1: Foiled die-cutting
For the first foiling
technique, we are going to use the Fab foils with peel and stick toner sheets.
This method is great for creating foiled card to die-cut from. So using a
piece of Violet fab foil cut enough foil that covers the size of the dies.
Once you've cut a
piece of toner card to size, warm up a Minc machine or laminator. Next, place the
toner sheet along with the colour side facing up into a carrier sheet and once
the machine is hot feed the carrier sheet
through the machine.
Once its fed
through, Its time to peel and reveal the foiled magic. So we've now got a piece
of foiled card in the colour your want and you can die-cut from this.
Now run this
through die cutting machine with the die of your choice and as
this is peel and stick card, when you remove the die-cut it already has
adhesive on the back saving you so much time when using intricate dies. Repeat this
method using the blush foil to create a foiled circle for the die-cut to sit
on.
To assemble the card, use the Altenew Dotted scales debossing cover plate on the
watercolour background to add some texture to the card. In addition, die-cut to
two circles out of vellum to matt and layer the foiled elements and to add more
interest, layer these up with foam pads.
For the sentiment, die-cut the Birch Press Designs Thanks Sugar Script die out of white card and
mounted this onto the card with foam pads and liquid glue. In addition, add a 'You're so kind' heat embossed sentiment onto black card using Opaque Bright
white embossing powder. To finish the card off, use Gina K connect glue to
adhere Lucy's Cards Freesia sequin mix to the front of the card.
Technique 2: Foiled transfer gel
For the second
method of adding Foils over watercolour backgrounds, we're using a stencil and
transfer gel over the first watercolour background we created. To step the
stencilling up a little, create a makeshift mask out of white card with a
circle die and place this over the stencil which is sitting over the top
of the background. The stencil we're using here is the Leafy Stencil from Gina K
Designs.
Now, using a spatula,apply the transfer gel over the stencil
being careful when applying to prevent the gels squidging underneath the stencil. Once
the circle is completely covered, remove the mask and reveal the
perfect circle, as well as removing the stencil as well to reveal the
pattern within the circle. You'll want to leave
this panel to dry for a couple of hours until the gel turns from white to
clear.
For this card, use the teal Fab foil and trim a piece of foil down to just larger
than then circle. Place the foil over the gel colour side up inside a
carrier sheet. Again, you will need to use your Minc machine or laminator to
adhere the foil over the gel. Of course peeling the foil and revealing the
design underneath never tires.
To finish this card
off, the foiled background was trimmed down with a circle die and then foam
mounted onto a white card. A layered white happy die cut from Lawn Fawn was
adhered to the front with liquid glue and then a stamped birthday sentiment was
foam mounted onto the front to finish the sentiment off. Again a few sequins
from the same mix were added to the front to finish this card off.
Technique 3: Foiled stamping with bonding powder
For the last
technique, we are going to apply foil over the watercolour background using
bonding powder. So for this background, use the paper hugs stamp set
design by Ashlee from the WOW! Creative team and stamp in clear ultra slow drying embossing ink onto the background. Next, cover this with bonding powder and heat set.
When heat-set, this
powder goes clear and you might confuse it with clear gloss embossing powder.
However, this powder is sticky to the touch when heat set. This stick property
allows you to add the foil over the top, and the foil sticks to the sticky surface. Once more, use the blush foil over this watercolour background to make it pop with the blue.
So, place the
foil colour side up and then use a bone folder to burnish the foil
down into the stamping. Now, this stays sticky for a while, but if you don't add
the foil straight away, you can reactivate the powder by adding heat over
the top, making it sticky again. This also means if you've missed a few spots
in the stamping with the foil, reheat it and then reapply the foil again.
The stamping was trimmed down and
foam mounted onto a white card panel and the sentiment 'For
you my friend' from the paper hugs stamp set was stamped in black ink. Finally, the card panel was adhered to a
pink card base.
Fab Foils over watercolour backgrounds Supplies:
Other supplies used:
Stamps used: Sentiment strips (Altenew), Sentimental stamps (Avery Elle)
Stencils: Leafy (Gina K Designs)
Dies: Thanks Sugar Script (Birch Press Designs) Geometric Animals (Docrafts - Xcuts), Nesting Circle Infinity Dies (Hero Arts)
Watercolours: Altenew Watercolour 36 Pan set, PinkFresh Studio Liquid watercolours: Sapphire, Aquamarine, Sky Blue, Tropical Pan set Prima Marketing Ink.
Till next week,
Verity
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Three very pretty ways of using foil Verity and they all work beautifully, but for me the second and especially the third are my favourites with wonderfully coloured backgrounds. Thank you for the your video tutorial too. I have tried the bonding powder but up to now have not managed very well with it but having watched you will give it another go. x
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