Paint, Stencils and a JR challenge

On Day 11 of the Online Card Watercolour class, there was a video with Tim Holtz showing a technique using watercolours and stencils. I just had to try this!

I just loved it, but I thought it might be fun to put the stencil back on and add pearlescent embosssing paste to it. So Pretty! I had to make a card.

I stamped the magnolia from JustRite's Magnolia Vintage Label Seven on watercolour paper, using TH Distress ink that I had stamped off once on scrap paper. I wanted to use a JustRite's Vintage Label Seven die to cut my image, but without cutting off the overhanging parts. I had never tried that before, so I stamped up a bunch of practice pieces to work it out.
I KNOW ! I KNOW! Apparently, this is yet another one of those things you can learn on YouTube. but, in my defence, some of us are better at learning lessons when we figure them out for ourselves. Like, making sure the desk drawers are closed before working with watercolours, even if you use a supposedly spill proof water container! (Don't ask!)
I painted the magnolia with the same Dusty Concord ink that I used in the background, and added some Mowed Lawn to the original Evergreen bough colour for the leaves.
I added clear Wink of Stella, just to the whiter parts of the flower, I thought that was enough shine,
"WHO SAID THAT??!! There's no such thing as enough shine!"
Oops! Sorry, occasionally my crazy escapes.
Anyway, I am thrilled with the way the magnolia turned out using the techniques I learned in class. It does look more like a painting than a stamp.
I made my crazy happy by adding silver embossing and little iridescent butterflies. The card stock I used is purple, not the blue it appears in the photo!

I'm entering this in the JustRite Challenge #121, Colour It Pretty. and Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Botanical

Hey! Just so you know, I did learn my lesson about having tea too close to my brush water.
Now I drink coffee !! HAHAHAHA