Watercolour Wednesday - Seasonal Branches

 For the watercolour card today, this one has not turned out anything like I intended it to! However, using a block stamped into Coastal Cabana ink, I added lots of water to the ink on the block then using the large water brush, I washed it across a piece of Fluid 100 watercolour paper which I had soaked earlier. It went really smoothly across the card mat. Once dry I added some more different colours including blue, pink, yellow.... Once I was completely happy with the mat, I set it aside to dry. I die cut several of the large branch dies out of Pecan Pie card using the Seasonal Branches dies. Then using the stamp set, also called Seasonal Branches, I stamped lots of the leaves onto another piece of watercolour paper. I die cut them out once they were dry and put them aside to when I wanted to add them. I die cut the centre frame out of some Gold foiled card and embossed it with the Metal Plate embossing folder. I added the branches and leaves onto the mat and added the frame around the whole front of the card. I die cut a few golden apples (who wouldn't love a golden apple tree in the garden)?

Watercolour Wednesday - Joyful Flurry

I have had fun with today's card. I took a pot and added 3 drops ink refill of Gorgeous Grape a really rich purple, then added about a spoonful of water to it. While the ink was mixing, I took a piece of watercolour paper and using Versamark Ink Pad, I stamped several of the different snowflakes all over the piece. I poured Clear Heat Embossing Powder over it all and then heat set it. It was quite shiny. Then using a wide water brush, I dipped it into the inky water and washed the colour all over the piece. I stopped occasionally to wipe some of the ink off of the embossed images but didn't really need to as it doesn't stick to it. I continued to do this a few times until I was happy with the colour.

I then dry embossed a small mat using the Wintry embossing folder, die cut one of the snowflakes partially on one end and added a sentiment and piece of ribbon. When it came to a card base I tried several different colours including Rich Razzleberry and Basic Gray but the Gorgeous Grape won. 

 Gorgeous Grape card base  

    Rich Razzleberry card base  

Basic Gray card base

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Tulip Fields

Watercolour Wednesday well, for my next card I've gone very bright. Tulips after all have many colours and lots of those are extremely bright too, just as mine are. I started by working out where I wanted the horizon to be, then using the triangular stamp of flowers from Tulip Fields, I stamped from the centre of the horizon and using black Stazon ink stamped the tulips several times across the card. I gave it a healthy gap between stamping to allow for the walk through that would be seen in the gardens of gorgeous tulips. Then, using a clear block I inked it up with each different colour, a few drops of water, a water brush and washed the colour over each part. I added a little of the Soft Suede ink to form the pathways. When you are watercolouring, you should always use a pigment based ink pad to wash across. Using a water based ink pad like Memento would cause the black ink to spread into the coloured wash! Not a pretty sight I can assure you as I've done it before! 😂

Using the smaller stamps of the trees and bushes, I stamped in Stazon again and then added some more colour to the field ahead. The sentiments once again are from Special Moments stamp set. 

When it came to the sky, I used my trusty water colour pencils which gave it the more cloudier look.

Watercolour Wednesday - Sale-A-Bration - Delicate Dahlias

 Today I used the Delicate Dahlias again but I had even more fun than I did on Monday. I stamped the large onto the white mat using a Stazon Ink Pad. I encircled it with the 5 smaller flowers and then stamped 2 more Dahlias onto spare white card. I coloured each of the flowers from the centre of the flower using the Watercolour pencils from Stampin' Up! Then using a water-brush I lightly washed the colour outwards to the edges of the flowers. I used the peachy pink of Flirty Flamingo again and the gorgeous bright yellow of Daffodil Delight. I wanted a little more colour on the larger flowers so I stamped an acrylic block onto the Flirty Flamingo ink pad and picked up some of the ink with my water-brush and added the extra colour. I then cut out one of the flowers complete and the other, I cut into the flower and took the outer petal off and gave the dahlia some extra dimension. Both of the 2 flowers were added to the card directly over the original flower. Now I have a decoupaged flower. A few sentiments using 1 from the Dahlia stamp set and the other from another Sale-a-Bration stamp set called In Your Words. I mounted the white mat onto a piece of the Flirty Flamingo card to help make it jump off the card. 

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