Unfortunately, some things look better in my head than they do translated on paper, LOL.
Yes, I embossed the entire image in white embossing powder. The plan was to make it stand out by watercolouring a lovely blue sky around the bear. How else would we see the white embossing on white watercolour paper? HOWEVER... reality looked quite different. Despite a deep blue around him, the bear's face seemed lost. I tried to colour his eyes, the snout and mouth with Copics as well as Sharpie pens, which made things worse. But I really like the sweater and scarf embossed in white, so I had no choice but to cut the bear apart.
After I stamped the bear in black (using Memories ink on Beckett Expressions card stock) I was much happier. I paperpieced the clothes that were previously embossed, watercoloured and cut out. The white paper was matted with blue and eggplant(which looks black in my scan), then adhered to a white card, and voilà my G.Q. bear is ready for winter.
The Stamp:
G.Q. Polar Bear by Rubbernecker Stamp Company
3 comments:
Very very nice Isabelle! My first thought when looking at the card was "How did she only emboss part of it white??" Such a cute & stylish image. Great job!
Great Job! Funny how a problem with your initial idea made for a much better image. Most of my flops are un-rescue-able. I'm not ready to see him or think about sweaters yet, though.
Love how this eventually turned out - the white EP on the sweater is just perfect!
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