Hello everyone! I’m so excited to be here and my goal is to inspire you to create! For my first project I’ve used the Lovely Bouquet Stamp Set and a sentiment from the Blue Without You BlueBonnets Stamp Set. My vision was to create a very soft watercolor. Let me show you how I created my card!
I heat embossed my image on watercolor paper using a white pearl embossing powder. My watercolor paper was cut to 5″ x 7″ and my plan was to cut it down when I was done.
I wanted to use my Gansai Tambi watercolors for this project. Although they can be quite opaque, I felt if I used enough water I could achieve the softness that I was after. I used some of the colors from the 36 set and some colors from the Vintage palette.
I gave things an initial wash of very pale color. You can see in the pink flower how the edges of the petals look white, but they are, in fact, painted a pale pink. After the initial wash was dry, I added more water to an area and started laying in more color.
I kept adding deeper colors until I was happy with the result. I used 5 or 6 colors on the leaves. I added pink to some of them and some yellow, but still trying to retain the softness.
I was really pleased with my end result. You could use Gansai Tambi paints or any watercolor you currently own. You could even use watercolor pencils. After the watercolor was dry, I trimmed my panel to 4″ x 6″.
Trimming the panel before stamping the sentiment helped me with placement. I used a detail gold embossing powder for the sentiment.
Before adhering the panel to the card, I used a shimmer gold ink pad and went along the edges of my panel. This gives a hint of gold around the edges that is not overpowering.
At this point, I made my 5″ x 7″ base. I covered it with a soft olive green card stock, the a piece of gold mirror card stock, then another piece of soft olive. The panels were successively smaller. This really gave the base a touch of elegance that would enhance my painted panel.
I adhered my painted panel to the card base with foam tape. This really helped make the gold edging stand out. I added small gold dots of contour liner. You could use anything, gems, pearls, Stickles, crystal drops or whatever you have. I kept mine really small.
I was quite pleased with how this project turned out. I hope I’ve inspired you to give this a try! This definitely won’t be my last watercolored project here, so keep in touch and I’ll be giving you more projects to inspire your creativity!
Til next time…
Betsy
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