One of my favourite techniques to use on cards is to combine heat embossing with watercolours. There are two ways to do this: emboss first then paint or paint and emboss over top. By simply reversing the process, the resulting … Continue reading
For a long time, I used to horde my favourite cards I made and not hand them out. It’s not that I didn’t want to give them away, but I felt like the card would be ruined if I wrote … Continue reading
With Valentine’s Day only a month away, I have been busy designing cards with hearts, flowers, and I Love You’s. I think I have hearts on the brain right now because I am seeing hearts everywhere: in my cereal, in … Continue reading
Creating your own background designs for cards is a great way to add more depth, colour, and texture to the cards. Since I have been practicing watercolour techniques, I thought I would combine a watercolour wash with heat embossing. The … Continue reading
As we enter the holiday season and Christmas music fills the house, the list of things to do before December 25th is a long one! The first few items that need to be checked off my list are: decorate the … Continue reading
Over the past few months I have been experimenting with different watercolour techniques on my cards. I have used washes as backgrounds, colour gradations, watercolour pencils, splattering, two-step watercolour stamping, and many more! I have one more technique to share that … Continue reading
Last week in my post introducing the winter card pack, I mentioned that I would be back to write about a technique used on the trees: two-step watercolour stamping. The basis of this technique was from two-step stamping where two … Continue reading
Before I begin with the technique, a noteworthy milestone must be shared: Today Birdwing Paper Designs is celebrating 150 blog posts! I could not believe it when I saw that this was going to be the 150th post!! Or more … Continue reading
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