Watercolour Wednesday Ice Cream Swirl

 Here on our blog Wednesday's are watercolour days. Now I'm  no artist so colouring with watercolour isn't my thing but I do love to create watercolour backgrounds.  What about you? Does the term  watercolour make you a little nervous? Well today's  sample is one that let's the water and the colour do all the work for you! And it's  going to include the Ice Cream Swirl stamps in a little different way.

So lets start. First you will need some watercolour paper, a piece of grey board ( I use the packaging from other products) and some low tack tape. Now place your watercolour paper in the middle of the board and using the tape secure it down. I like to aim for a narrow boarder around all 4 sides of the watercolour panel. 

Next grab your water spritzer, wide waterpainter, reinkers and a sheet of kitchen roll. The kitchen roll can be replaced with any cleaning rag used to clean the brush in-between colours.

Now spritz the water colour liberally.  Add drops of the different colour reinkers into seperate areas on a wipeable surface or on a palette.  Add a single drop of water to your first colour and using a damp brush drop the ink on to the wet watercolour paper. Working quickly clean your brush and repeat until the panel is coloured to your desire.

Now the hard part leave the panel flat, wipe the edges that are covered in  tape, and walk away! Letting the panel dry naturally means that the colours don't get blown together and dry in more of a puddle like fashion.  Patience is a virtue here but well worth the wait in my opinion.  

When the panel is completely dry I took the ice cream swirl image and using versamark stamped all over the panel. Next I used white embossing powder and heat embossed the swirls.

At first glance I don't  think you would guess that the lines are created using and ice cream swirl stamp!

The card came together very quickly after this . A turquoise card base and a sentiment die cut using the incredibly versatile Wanted to Say dies and the bright pink and white cardstock. 

So here's the final card...

What do you think? Do you like it? I love the bright bold colours and the white lines make me think it looks like tie-dye! 

A fun card that whilst it takes time for the drying everything else is nice and quick.