Brutus Monroe Oh My Gourd Aqua Pigment Shaker Card

I started with a piece of Black Watercolor paper and some White and Pearl Aqua Pigments on my glass mat.  I sprayed the Aqua Pigments with a little water and then pressed my watercolor paper into it.  I kept ink smooshing my paper and drying in between until I was happy with my pattern.  Next I used the Oh my Gourd die and ran my panel through my die cut machine, keeping the negative for my card and putting the die cut aside for now.

Then, I cut about 6 -8 more of the negative panels with the die from white scrap cardstock and glued them all together.  I used some strong double sided tape to the back of my black die cut panel and attached a piece of acetate to the panel.  Then I used more strong double sided tape to the front stacked white die cut pieces.   I flipped over the stacked panels with the negative or frame.  I temporarily placed the Oh my Gourd die cut into the center of the negative stacked piece. After spreading liquid glue all over the Oh my Gourd die cut piece and carefully lined up my A2 Card base on top.  After gently flipping it over, I removed the negative/frame piece and pressed the Oh my Gourd die cut piece in place.  

Then I added some glitter and sequins to the center of my card panel, right in the center of the Gourd.  Then I added more double stick tape and some liquid glue to the negative/frame piece.  I attached it to the front of my  card base creating a shaker card.  Then I took a piece of white cardstock and stamped the hell Gourd-Geous sentiment with Raven Detail ink and cut it out with a banner die.  I attached the sentiment to the front of the panel to finish the card.

Here is a list of the products used that are available in the Brutus Monroe store, like always these affliated links do not cost you anything extra, however they help support me to bring you new content.

• Oh My Gourd Stamp Set
• Oh My Gourd Die Set
• Pearl Aqua Pigment
• White Aqua Pigment
• Raven Detail Ink

Full Panel Shaker using Chroma Mists and Preprinted Watercolor Panels from Brutus Monroe

Lightly spray out a small amount of Chroma Mists in Bumblebee Yellow, Tangerine Orange, and Candy Apple Red on a Glass Mat or Pallet.  Then take the leaf panel from the Preprinted Watercolor Panel - Fall.  Using a waterbrush, paint each of the leaves with water.  Pick up a Chroma Mist color of choice and drop the color on each leaf.  I chose to let some of the colors mix.  Then either let the panel dry or use a heat tool to dry.  

Repeat with the background, painting on water and dropping in Chroma Mist colors.  Drying between layers, repeat until the colors are what you want.  Using a Rectangle foundation die, cut the panel down to desired size.  

Next, cut down recycled stamp (or other) packaging to 1/2" bigger than your panel.  Then, using Double Sided Tissue Tape - 3/8" on all sides on the back of your dry water colored panel.  Remove three sides of the backing from the Tissue tape and fold over the packaging, wrapping it snuggly against the sides of the panel.  Fill the front panel through the fourth side with desired, sequins, glitter, or shaker fillings.  Remove tape from the fourth side and fold over packaging.  You can carefully trim the corners that overlap to remove extra bulk.

Using more Tissue Tape, over the edges of the packaging and back of the panel and remove release paper.  Attach to a red panel, leaving a 1/4" border.  Adhere matted panel to the front of a Kraft A2 Card base.

For a sentiment,  take some Aqua pigment paper and lightly spray some Tangerine Orange and Bumblebee Yellow Chroma Mist.  Let dry and use the Thanks script from Christopher's Sentiments Cutting die and a die cut machine.  Cut the Shadow layer from some Kraft cardstock and adhere the sentiment together.  Use Liquid Glue to attach the sentiment to the front of the shaker pouch.