Watercolour & Betterpress

For my second project with the January Betterpress Society plates, "Uniquely You", I pressed them in Betterpress Black ink onto Canson XL watercolour paper.  I was wanting to create a more masculine card, so picked four colours of Distress ink to paint with.

I started by ink blending some Tumbled Glass ink behind where the leaves will sit, then after pressing the images, I used Shabby Shutters, Mermaid Lagoon, Evergreen Bough and Mowed Lawn to randomly paint the leaves.  I spattered Mermaid Lagoon and metallic gold paint over the finished project.

I am always in need of birthday cards, so I used a sentiment from the November, gold embossing it onto regular black cardstock.  I trimmed down my panel by 1/8" on each side, then stitched it to a black card base with my sewing machine.

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