Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Make it Monday #161 - Watercolor "Splats"

I love anything to do with watercolouring, so when Nicole Heady, at Papertrey Inks, showed us one way to achieve a watercoloured background, I had to try it.
For my background I sponged the inks and then placed some water drops onto it. I chose to fade out the colours, and not go right to the edge. While that dried, I made the flower garland, then layered it all up. In  hindsight, I wish I'd diecut the garland out of the background and inlaid this one, for easier mailing, but "oh, well". There's always a next time! (I also wished I'd used white embossing powder for the sentiment...) I did go back with my waterbrush and add some Berry Sorbet ink onto the center of the Sweet Blush flowers to give them some depth. I like that. Perfect Pearls finished off the flowers, with a few extra dots around the perimiter.



Inks: Aqua Mist, simply Chartruese, Tropical Teal, Spring, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush (PTI), and Versafine Onyx Black
Stamps/dies:Garden Grace, Embellished Elegance
Paper: Stamper's Select White, Tropical Teal, coral coloured paper from my stash
Other: Perfect Pearls, L'il Inkers Stitched Die

5 comments:

  1. Oh, so pretty. Love your colors and how you faded out your background.

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  2. WOW Kathryn! LOVE the background you created and garden grace is always a winner, if you ask me! :-)

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  3. What a lovely card! I love the pretty colors & design.
    Beautifully done!

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  4. Very beautifully done, Kathryn! Love how you faded the background and your Garden Grace posies are gorgeous!

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  5. I love this technique - I watched Nichole's video, too, but haven't tried it. Yours is amazing! Love how it fades out, the depth of your flowers and textures like the p. pearls. I love it ♥

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