Today is watercolour Wednesday and for today I've had a go at actually watercolouring in an image!! Using the Wishes and Wonder stamps I thought why not give actual colouring with water painters and ink a go !!
Now I thought if I heat embossed the image I stood a better chance of staying withing the lines... I know it did certainly help but I still managed to splodge a little. But still I'm really chuffed with my effort ☺
Well it sure it full of water this watercolour Wednesday here in my small part of the world!! It's raining cats and dogs!! I'm so glad that the colour pallette I chose for today's Gorgeous Posies inspiration has flashes of bright colour! Far more cheerful than the grim, grots and grimey weather I've got. I hope some of you are having far better lucky in the weather department.
Well there is one thing about the rain that's always fascinated me and thats when you see water on the oily patch of road. What's that got to do with today's card I hear you cry!! Well hang in there and I'll explain.
For the watercolour background today I mixed water and alcohol! First create a nice wet watercolour wash over wet watercolour paper. Now the trick is to get it wet but not too wet so I suggest you play with this technique a few times to get the right amount of wetness. Next put some isopropyl alcohol into a spritzer bottle.
Now the fun begins spritzer the alcohol over the wet watercolour paper and watch the effect. The alcohol and water don't mix and the alcohol pushes the water away. It's great fun to watch. The finished effect is spots and speckles on the background. Sadly my photps don't do the effect justice so you'll have to have a go yourself to get a better idea 😏
Anyway I'm off with my brolly and wellies to face the wet stuff. Have a fun day x
All products used, except the isopropyl alcohol, can be found HERE
For today's samples I've again gone for the unexpected colour combo for the Rooted in Nature stamp set...as you may have guessed I'm a bit of a colour rebel 😜 So combining bright colours and messy watercolour techniques is right up my street 🤣🤣🤣
For the background I created one of my favourite wet watercolour backgrounds using royal purple, bright blue and strong sea blue/green colours. The technique is simple useing watercolour paper spritz well with water over the entire surface. Now drop reinker onto a silicon sheet or piece of plastic and with a water painter add a few drops of water. Now the fun begins! Take you water painter and pick up some of the ink and gently drop it onto the wet watercolour paper and watch it spread and as you add other colours merge to create unique backgrounds 😃 I would advise leaving the piece to dry naturally as you want the colours to saturate and stay because if you use a heat tool the water will get blown around on the surface.
Once I had my background made I decided I wanted lots of texture so I pulled out my embossing folders, dies and embossing paste. First I die cut a mask from a piece of vellum and used this with embossing paste onto one piece of my background.
Popping this aside I took out my embossing folders and embossed a piece of vellum to place over the second background.
I then heat embossed the tree image in clear embossing power and die cut it out twice. I then used white heat embossing powder to stamp 2 sentiments and cut these out.
A small splash of silver mesh ribbon and both cards came together. Now my photos don't do the cards justice 😒 they are very textural and look much better in real life !
I hope you like my adventures into colour and texture because they sure were fun to create 😄
