Painted Circles

Good Morning

Meet today's card...painted circles.  

I tried my hand at painting some more circles with some of my favourite Distress colours.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began with a piece of Strathmore Bristol watercolour paper, a paintbrush #10, a cup of water and my Distress Oxide inks.
• I began by pressing my ink pads directly onto my Tim Holtz Glass Mat to transfer some ink there.  Using a wet paint brush with no ink on it, I painted the first circle ring with water at the bottom of my card panel. By doing that first, before adding the ink, I was better able to move the inks around when I added them in multiple layers. 
• The rest was pretty much straight forward.  I painted a round ring shape then moved to another area of the card panel to paint another while the first one dried.  *to get a good mix of the colours and to be able to blend them well, you must let each one dry before adding the next colour.*  Use your heat tool to dry if you are impatient like me! 
• I finished painting all the rings of the circles using the different colours seen in the photo below.

• Using a fine line markers, I doodled lines around all the circles just to give them more presence.
• I splattered the panel with my white Posca pen for more interest.
• When the panel was totally dry, I die cut the Celebrate sentiment from MFT in my Cuttlebug right from the center of the circles.  I die cut the sentiment again 3 more times from white cardstock.  I stacked and glued those all together and glued them back into position on the main panel. 
• I stamped the sentiment strip with some Versamark ink, then white heat embossed it.  I pop dotted that just below the sentiment.
• I mounted it all onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Happy Little Stampers- WATERCOLOR

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Creative Artiste Mixed Media- ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA

Supplies

Stamps- Tiny Words (SSS)

Inks- Distress Oxides; Versamark

Paper- Strathmore Bristol; heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- paintbrush; Celebrate die (My Favorite Things); Wow eb powder;

heat tool (Ranger); Signa fine line pen; Posca white pen; Cuttlebug; pop dots