Simple Watercolouring

 

Hello

Hope you are all doing well.

Meet today's card.  I was in the mood to do some watercolouring; something I haven't done for quite awhile.

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

• I cut a piece of heavy white cardstock 4 1/2" x 4 1/2".  I took a piece of acetate, rubbed some Spun Sugar Distress ink onto the acetate and sprayed with water.  I bent the acetate and 'kissed' it to my cardstock, then dried the ink.  That gave me a bit of a colour base to start stamping my flowers onto.
• I positioned the Lotus stamp into the corner of my cardstock, inked with some black Versafine Clair ink and stamped.  I clear embossed it as I knew I wanted to use lots of water and colour and I didn't want it to bleed.
• I stamped the lotus again onto some sticky paper and fussy cut it out to create a mask.
• I masked the flower and stamped another one beside and then above it.  I embossed them as well with some clear embossing powder.
• I rubbed some Abandoned Coral onto my non-stick craft sheet and using a wet paintbrush, diluted it.  I added some clear water to the flowers with my paintbrush, then added some of the colour into the flower petals. 
• I still had some ink left on my mat, so I splattered it over the flowers to add interest.
• I dried the flowers before watercolouring in the flower heads with some Squeezed Lemon Distress ink using the same technique I mentioned above, then the stems with some Peeled Paint.
• After I dried the flowers, I diluted some Tumbled Glass DI ink and painted in the background, adding more ink close to the flowers and blending it out.
• To add even more interest to the background, I used the Chain Weavers stencil from ACLD and gently went over the blue area that I had watercoloured using more of the Tumbled Glass ink.
• When dry, I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment from the Lotus set.
• I glued it onto a piece of pale pink cardstock, then onto a 5" x 5" white card base.

Here is the stencil I used on the background.

Chain Weave

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look

Adding my card to these challenges:

Just Us Girls- INKED OR SPRAYED BKGD

CASology- RENEW 

(After making so many Christmas cards, I am renewing my love of florals for Spring)

613 Avenue Create- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Inked Lotus (Altenew)

Inks- Distress Inks (all mentioned above); Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Stencil (ACLD); Lawn Fawn clear eb powder; sponge daubers;

paintbrush; acetate sheet

'Orange' You Glad it's Summer- The Flower Challenge

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You have a few more days left to play along with us at
The Flower Challenge




Our Guest Designer this month is Mac Mable from thesweetestofpeas. Do check out her blog if you have a minute as she makes such fabulous cards.

I chose summer for the theme of my card and here is what I did.

1.  Using a piece of heavy white cardstock, I brayered some orange, yellow and red acrylic paint onto a large piece of cardstock, blending the colours and covering the whole piece.
2.  When the brayered piece was completely dry, I cut the main panel to fit the card base as the background.
3.  I placed the leftover painted piece into my Misti and stamped the Lotus flower twice using some Versafine Clair ink, then I clear heat embossed them.
4.  Using my white Posca pen, I added some white details to the flowers and splattered them as well.
5.  While the flowers dried, I die-cut the white panel with a stitched die and stamped the sentiment.
6.  I fussy cut out the flowers then I assembled the card, pop dotted the flowers in place and added 3 black gems for interest.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies
Stamps- Lotus Flower (Altenew); Treasure the Moments (Impression Obsession)
Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; acrylic paint
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); brayer (Speedball); black gems; Posca white pen;
pop dots; clear embossing powder; heat tool; stitched die (Memory Box)