Watercolour Wednesday Grassy Grove

 Do you ever find a piece of pattern paper and love it so much you try to recreate it? Well I have done just that for today's inspiration! I loved the designs in a pack of paper called New Horizons.  Sadly they are now retired 😕  but just what I wanted to pair with the images in the  Grassy Grove stamp set.

Can you understand why I wanted to try and create something inspired by these beautiful patterns?  

So I started by taking some thick white cardstock and some ink refills along with a waterbrush.  The colours I chose are a dark blue called starry sky , a pink called polished pink, a light blue called balmy blue and a gentle grey called smoky slate. 

I used 2 strips of Masking paper to create a stip slight off center in which to apply the colour whilst protecting the rest of the white cardstock. 

I'm no painter so literally looked at the pattern paper and tried to recreate it! It's not perfect and it did manage to leak out the edges when I used too much water but I love the final product 😍 and it really made me feel really painterly 🤣

To finish the card I used black ink to stamp across the coloured strip and the blank areas. Mounted it onto a panel of starry sky cardstock then a white card base.

A few iridescent pearls and a simple sentiment stamped in starry sky and my watercolour card was complete.

Really had fun with this card so would highly recommend that you try and recreate your own favourite papers. What have you got to lose? All that can happen is you might find it fun and that you make a project that you really can say is all at your own hand 😊

Watercolour Wednesday Celebrate Sunflowers

 Today I'm sharing a new to me fun watercolour technique.  I must first give credit to Barry and Jay over at Mitosu Crafts for sharing this fab way to mix things up a bit! When I saw this technique I knew I wanted to use it with the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp.

So what am I going on about I hear you say... well let me explain. You'll need your watercolour pencils, a stamp and a spritzer with water, oh and cardstock of course!

First you're going to lightly mist your stamp with water. Then you're going to colour it in with the watercolour pencils. Then another mist of water and stamp!

The effect is fabulous...

Above is the first impression.  I then re-spritzed the stamp with another mist of water and stamped again....

And then again....

And finally....

I love how these turned out so much I had to create 3 cards with them. The first I created a simple card.

For the 2nd impression I wanted to make a card that was a little more stepped up...

And for the final card I went all out using dies and bling.

I love how these simple images can create gorgeous card at all levels of style and skill.

I think this new tequnique will fast become a go to one in my arsenal. What about you? Will you give it a go?