Watercolour Wednesday Beautiful Balloons

 Today I'm sharing a fun watercolour background.  The technique uses ink pads, watercolour paper, water and a cello bag! I wanted to created a background to show off some of the dies from the Beautiful Balloons bundle .

It all starts with spritzing a piece of watercolour paper with plenty of water. Next take an ink pad and dab it onto a cello bag. 

 

Next pop your hand into the bag and scrunch it up a little.

Then dab it onto the wet watercolour paper. 

I do make sure that the area is well protected so that any mess is easily cleaned up.

I then repeated the process using another shade of blue.  The 2 colours I used are called azure afternoon and blueberry bushel. 

I then put the panel to one side to dry. Next I took some gold foil and die cut some of the stars and tassels from the Beautiful Balloons bundle. I then mounted the panel onto a gold mat and stamped a sentiment onto it.

I used on of the 3 embossing folders in the Basics 3d embossing folder bundle to embosse the stars 🌟 I added the tassels to make the shooting stars 🌠 

As I had used a dark blue card base I decided to create an insert.

I love the way this card came together. The colours are rich and enhanced by the gold and the texture is fab. And it was fun to make 😃