Watercolour Wednesday - Grassy Grove

 Hello on another lovely and warm Wednesday. We have had some gorgeous weather for the past week which is really lovely to see. How long it will last...no one knows but I am enjoying it while it's here. For my watercolour card this week I have used the Grassy Grove stamp set and watercoloured onto Fluid 100 watercolour paper. I literally soaked the paper with a spritzer full of water and stamped the first set of plants in the centre. As it was very wet, it bled onto the paper quite a bit which I was happy about. It has given me some lovely colours throughout the whole image. I did soak up some of the ink that had bled across the sky using a piece of kitchen tissue but am really pleased with the tinted green effect.

Watercolour Wednesday - Inspirational Sketches

 Wednesday already. Wow! Ok, stop panicking girl and get on with it! Well, today I have fun again only this time watercolouring. This stamp set is really beautiful and I've fallen in love with it. So, using the Inspirational Sketches again, today's card is the flowers. I have used the ink pads and my water brush to colour the image which I stamped using a retired, silver, pigment ink pad. I tried with the Stazon but it was too deep and dark for me on this one. I wanted a soft image of the almost black-eyed Susan or Rudbeckias I think they are called. Anyway, I had fun colouring in with the fine water painter brush that I used. I did add a fine line of pencil in some places to accentuate the flowers a little more. 

Adding a few strips of DSP from the Softly Stippled range of papers and a mat inside of Pool Party card for the inside finished my card off. 

 

Watercolour Wednesday - This Birthday Piggy

Watercolour Wednesday already! Where do the days go to? Today's card is the best way that I love to watercolouring is going the whole hog so to speak. That is by watercolouring the whole lot! Using the stamps from This Birthday Piggy today, I stamped the motor scooter using a Stazon ink pad onto a C6 card mat. Stazon is a pigment based ink pad and necessary when water colouring not a water based ink pad. I used the Stampin' Up! watercolour pencils set 1 and set 2 and water colour brushes. I then decided to fussy cut all of the aspects of the image out right down to the tiny little stars, circles etc. Basically I paper pieced the whole lot. The only part that I actually watercoloured on the card itself was the ground and the background. I had great fun! I know...I can hear you saying that I am mad but I really did enjoy doing it!

I used Melon Mambo card for the mat behind the white mat on both the front and the inside of the card. I restamped the scooter, watercoloured it in, fussy cut it out and added to the inside to complete this card.

Watercolour Wednesday - Happy Hedgehogs

Hello, for today's watercolour using the Happy Hedgehog stamp set, I made a watercolour background and used a die cut mask. Stampin'  Up! have a set of dies called Basic Borders. There are 6 different dies in the set and there are zig-zags through to curves and points, curves to a tiled roof... I love them. Anyway, the die is a cloudy effect along the edge and using that I tried several techniques from brushing across the die cut and many other ways. I ended up by brushing a small line around the border in the very soft grey of Smoky Slate. I stamp the ink pad onto an acrylic block and add a few drops of water to make it even lighter. I moved the die cut at different angles and once done I took some of the lightest blue of Balmy Blue and washed another line across the grey. I think it adds a little dimension, What do you think?

  

Watercolour Wednesday - Encircled In Friendship

 I really had fun getting messy with today's card. Now, those of you who know me, know that I HATE getting messy when I craft. So for me to get messy it probably isn't as bad as when Cary gets messy. She just LOVES it! Using Encircled In Friendship stamp set, I took a C6 mat and washed some very light blue of Balmy Blue over it. I picked up the colour from an acrylic block that I stamped onto the ink pad. I find it's so much easier watercolouring that way. Once it was dry, I stamped the flowers across the centre using a Stazon Ink Pad in Tuxedo Black and then added a piece of paper from the NEW Sunshine and Rainbows designer series paper, DSP. Stazon ink pad is a pigment based ink pad and it's not affected by water colouring. Using the same block, I added 2 drops of ink refil in the Balmy Blue  onto the block and started to add water from my brush to it. I coloured in the flowers and then the leaves in that gorgeous green of Granny Apple Green in exactly the same way.

Once they were all dry, I added 2 more drops to the colouring block and got the darker blue to do the highlighting on the flowers. I stamped the interior with the main flowers and repeated the same process as I did on the front. I had some tiny strips of DSP left over and added them to the inside as a highlight and completed this card.