Stained Glass with Background Dies

Thanks to everyone who's visited my blog for the Coffee Lovers Hop! I have some more projects to share today for the hop today using the amazing Grandpa's Glass: Cup of  Love  Die from A Jillian Vance Design. 

I used a favorite technique to deboss the image of the die into watercolor paper without actually cutting through the paper. Here's the sandwich I used for the Big Shot - I have the platform open on the bottom, a cutting plate, the silicone embossing pad, paper, die face down, and another cutting plate on top.

I'm actually using the back side of the paper for this card - you can see how the cutting lines of the die have created a raised design on the reverse.

I rub a white crayon over the raised outlines, and that creates a resist for my watercoloring. I used QoR watercolor paints for the open areas and Zig markers to add shading.

Here's a closer look!  This was so much fun to create. The sentiment set I used is called Perk Up, and all the sentiments are designed to fit inside the open space here. So clever!

For my second card, I just used the debossed image as the focal point for my card - no color added.

For an accent, I just added some scored lines onto my card base at a diagonal. (Truthfully, I went off the rails a little when I was scoring the edge of the card, so this was my attempt to distract from that. But it works. Shhh.)

That's all I know! I have a busy week here with in-laws here to visit, and an art show this coming weekend - I finished up a painting for the show on Friday, and I'll share it later in the week. Have a great one!