{"id":7535,"date":"2024-04-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/?p=7535"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:22:11","slug":"bright-atcs-with-sketchy-flowers-210424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/mixed-media-projects\/bright-atcs-with-sketchy-flowers-210424\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright ATCs with Sketchy Flowers and Watercolor Collge Fodder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Hi there, Susanne here with an Artist Trading Card duo using our Sketchy Flowers and Sketchy Leaves stamps for some lovely watercolor collage fodder. On the background I used a bit of collage, a gouache sticks and ink splatters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To make the botanical ephemera pieces for these cards I stamped the images from Sketchy Flowers 3 and Sketchy Leaves with a light Distress Ink. I then coloured the leaves and flowers in very loosely with watercolors. The inked outlines will almost disappear with the watercolors, so your flowers and leaves look like if they were hand-painted.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AA-1328-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AA-1328-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AA-1328-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AA-1328-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AA-1328-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AA-1328.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To create the background for the cards I covered them in collage bits from my stash that I had left over. 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