Spectrum Aqua Pens and the Bokeh Effect

 

Good morning, happy Monday. I hope everyone had a nice weekend. No doubt many of you will have seen the Bokeh technique on many projects recently. It looks so effective & I wanted to have a go. I tried it on a scrap piece of watercolour card & as often happens, I liked the result so much I had to use it on a card. I used colours from the Floral set of Spectrum Aqua pens & the

 Blossom Bunch stamp from Stampendous.

 

 

I scribbled Marigold & Jasmine pens onto a blending mat, spritzed them with water & dabbed the colours randomly onto the watercolour card & let it dry.........

 

 

Used a piece of Cut & Dry foam to apply white Versacolor ink through the

 Imagination Crafts Bubble stencil. Left it to dry for a little while, replaced the stencil & applied more ink. I repeated this a few times to build up the white.............

 

 

Stamped the Blossom Bunch stamp with Grape Versacolor, applied Clear Gloss embossing powder & heat set.......

 

 

Began colouring with Heather Spectrum Aqua, but the white ink reacted against the pens & the result was a very different colour..........

 

 

 

So I stamped onto another piece of card, coloured the flowers with Heather & Orchid SA pens, cut out the flowers & adhered them to the main image..........

 

 

I wanted to continue the circles theme behind the tag shape I'd cut, so I used a piece of patterned paper from the Joy Crafts Vintage paper bloc, punched out some circles from another scrap of watercolour card - also coloured with Jasmine & Marigold SA pens, as were the card candi - and added some dots & scribbles with a black fine line pen............

 

 

I added gold liquid pearls to the centre of the flowers & a final embellishment of a mini hinge clip & a length of seam binding ribbon. The sentiment is from the

Woodware Clear Magic stamp, Special Bird.

 

 

Thanks for visiting the blog today. Don't forget the theme of the current blog challenge is 'Spring Watercolours', all the details are on the challenge page.

 

Have a great week, see you next time.

 

Kirsten