Friendship Jar with realistic water...

Settle in folks. I've got a whopper of a tutorial for you today. I've spent all morning preparing a two part tutorial for you. Part one is making realistic looking water for Friendship Jar. Part two coloring the flowers from Friendship Jar Fillers to look like white daisies. Here we go.

First, die cut the jar and stamp it with the jar stamp. Color around the edges with a Copic BG000 Sketch marker. It's light in the photo but you can still see it in real life.
Cut some Clearly Creative Cardstock to fit inside the jar outline. Using scissors, round the bottom corners and cut the top to resemble wavy water. Set the stamped jar image aside for now.
To create some fantastic, realistic water I'm going to use the Clearly Creative Cardstock piece I cut along with three colors of Copic Various Ink Refills. You can find Copic refills at Ellen Hutson's shop. Squeeze drops of the inks onto the clear cardstock.
Using a heat tool, move the colors around on the clear cardstock. As the ink begins to dry, it will go from looking shiny to a more matte color. Hold the heat gun about 10" from the clear cardstock. If it's not quite the look you want, add another drop or two of the lightest color and blend again with the heat tool.
When dry it looks like the photo below. The inky side will be adhered to the card front. The front will be totally shiny, like a real glass jar. So cool! Set this piece aside.
Next, take a piece of Rustic Cream cardstock and lay the stamped jar on top of it. Ink up the flower image and stamp it over the jar and onto the cardstock. You're stamping two pieces of paper at one time.
The flowers are on the base paper and the stems are in the jar.
Now let's start coloring. Use the Copic markers shown below to color the flower stems.
Us the Y Copic colors below to color the flower centers. If you zoom in, you can see that I have a little ink bleeding going on. That's okay.
I'm covering the bleeding up with my grey W Copic markers as shown below. Although the daisies are white, they need a little shading. The lightest of the grey Copics work great for this.
I want my daisies to pop off the page so I used a BG10 Copic marker to outline the white flowers. No blending, just outline the flowers. The color will fade a little as it dries. See how the daisies really pop off the paper and come to life?
Next up, it's time to assemble my card. The jar image with the flowers takes up the good part of an A2 size card. I chose three Papertrey patterned papers to use on the side of my card. They're cut 1" wide. I also adhered the clear cardstock piece to my flower colored piece using Hermafix adhesive. I chose a strategic spot that will be covered up with a tag. I also put a little under the darkest blue and it didn't show up. I added some machine stitching to the main image and then finished up my card using the Friendship Jar label stamp, dies and sentiments. The Tiny Tag is from my Etsy shop and was adhered with a pop dot and a Tim Holtz tiny staple.
Here's my beautiful finished card.
Complete with pretty, colored flowers...a glitter jar topper, fun sentiments and the swirly water on the jar. The shiny-ness of the clear cardstock is amazing in person!
And it wouldn't be complete without some fresh picked bloomers straight from the field near our house.
Just the tiniest bouquet of fresh cut flowers can brighten the day. Such a pretty little centerpiece...or a very thoughtful and one of a kind gift.
I hope you enjoy!

Tip: Try using yellow or pink ink refills to resemble fresh lemonade. How about a little red ink around the outside and then color the marbles to resemble eyeballs for Halloween. Use shades of green for my favorite margaritas or a jar of pickles. Or orange for fresh squeezed orange juice. Lots and lots of fun ideas to try.