Watercolour Wednesday - Christmas Friends

I really had great fun with today's watercolour card! I started with a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolour Card 12.5 cm by 9cm, I knew it was going to be much smaller than a C6 mat and that was fine. Using Versamark ink, I stamped the reindeer from the Christmas Friends stamp set onto the card using my stamp positioner. I inked it up a few times to make sure that the ink was all over. I then poured white embossing powder and heat set it using my heat tool. Then using a watercolour tray, I added some drops of Reinker in 4 different colours and watered each colour well. Then starting with the blue of Balmy Blue, I brushed the colour several times across the piece of card. Then the pink of Bubble Bath, orange of Calypso Coral and finally yellow of Daffodil Delight. The reindeer looked cool but I wanted him to look more realistic. Using the Calypso Coral, watered down ink, I added some of the ink onto the reindeer and the pink of the bubble bath for his skates. I really just played and enjoyed the crazy result too. 

Once it was dry, I added it to a Calypso Coral mat and then onto Balmy Blue card. Inside the white mat was added to Balmy Blue mat and adhered inside the white card base. I stamped the Owl on the inside of the card and coloured in using my Stampin' Blends pens.

 

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Thoughtful Expressions

 Hello on a very wet Wednesday! Today's watercolour card was great fun to make. I started by cutting a strip of watercolour paper 14.85cm long by approximately 7cm wide. I thoroughly soaked it with water from the spritzer and then using my re-inker bottles, lightly I scribbled the ink across the card. I repeated it a few times with different colours and once I was happy with the them, I put it aside to dry. Prior to me stamping using the Thoughtful Expressions stamp set, I cut a tent fold card base which is 29.7cm long, scored at 14.85cm and 10.5cm wide. I then cut a white mat with the dies from the Around The Bend. It gave a really lovely curve across the card which was what I wanted. 

I cut the coloured mat to 14.4cm as I left it slightly longer than I wanted and just trimmed the ends down. Once I had positioned it onto the front of the card, I could mark the mat where I needed to trim it. I positioned the now 2 pieces onto the card base and adhered more or less centrally to the card. I adhered the die cuts to the top and bottom of the card base and then played with the scraps of inked watercolour card. I stamped some of the flowers and die cut using some of flowers and swirls from the Thoughtful Expressions dies.

The rest as you can see is easy. I just placed them onto the mat and then adhered them into place.

Here you can see the finished mats before they were die cut and stamped on. I really had fun today. Not a messy one like like Cary had on her LIVE on Monday but fun nonetheless. :)) 

Watercolour Wednesday - Have a Hoot

 Oh Boy!!! Did I do a Cary or what this week!! I got myself sooo messy that even my grandchildren were shocked with me!! I did enjoy what I was doing though 😁😂

I love to do watercolour backgrounds but usually I take a little more care in how I apply the ink. Today though, I didn't! I used 3 re-inkers for my background and just added 3 drops of each to a large acrylic block. I then spritzed lots and lots of water over the block so the colours ran together. I didn't move them at all but then laid a piece of watercolour paper over the top for a few seconds. When I removed it I added another and another. It tool 3 times to completely use all of the ink up. I set them aside to dry and once they were I added some drops of white re-inker to the block and again spritzed it with water. The white ink is a thicker Craft ink and takes more movement to mmake it runny. I used a cocktail stick to move the colour and water around then I just tapped the previous sheets of watercolour paper over it. I only wanted some of the white over the card and therefore didn't push it too much. I was able to do it to the others and the last one was just so subtle and because it picked up a little of the previous colours from the papers it's turned out beautiful. 

While the papers dried again, I stamped and coloured the owls. I washed some Misty Moonlight ink around each of the owls to give a night time effect. I then die cut them using the frame die from the Peek A Hoot dies which match with the stamps. Then I trimmed little parts of the dies off as I wanted them to almost overhang the edge of the card. A little of the 1,1/2" metallic ribbon, some Wink Of Stella flicked over the background and it was finished. I hope it looks ok to you. I know my granddaughter Bella loved the galaxy effect it gave and so much so she now wants to do one this week too!

 

I hope you like it as much as Bella did. Please have a go. You don't have to get messy. I just got my fingers in the way!