Summer hydrangea card using watercolour

I’ve been through one of those patches where I’m creating lots but never get round to blogging it! I’ve used clever group of hydrangea stamps by inkylicious which allow you to build up an image. I stanped using distress inks.

I have all the Zig art and graphic twin ZIG Art and Graphic watercolour markers and I used various pinks, purples and greens to watercolour. I used my trusty marble heart as my pallette rather than applying the ink directly.

Watercolour hydrangea 2

I made the background papers and sentiment using Craft Artist 2. Lots of lovely purples! I matted the layers with platinum silver Centura Pearl card.

Watercolour hydrangea 1

As you can see I rounded all the corners with a Corner Punch. I used my round Ranger blending tool (I’m finding this so much easier to get a smooth blend compared to the rectangular one) with Victorian Velvet distress ink to add a hint of colour to the card scallop edges.

Inside the card I used more papers I made up in Craft Artist 2. I forgot to take photos before I wrote in it so I’ve blurred my writing out 🙂

Watercolour hydrangea 3

I would like to enter my card for the following challenges

That’s Crafty- purple passion challenge

Chocolate, coffee and cards challenges- a flower in your image

Penny Black and more challenge- summer flowers

Lacy Sunshine’s colour your world- anything goes

Whoopsie Daisy challenge- make it girly

Thanks so much for reading and commenting x

 

 

A bright pattern watercolour card

A bright pattern watercolour card

Hi!
Another attempt at a watercolour card today. I felt like trying something a bit different so I decided to use a Faber-Castell Pitt permanent Pen to build up a pattern based on circles and flowers. I then used my ZIG waterolours to paint it.

I wanted to make all the papers so I echoed my main design and used my Sakura Stardust Gelpen to make them. I coloured the edge of my scalloped card with an Aubergine ProMarker.

I cut a purple and yellow ribbon for the central band. I didn’t have any buttons in my stash that were a good match for the card and since I wanted it to be as handmade as I could I decided to make the buttons. I had previously made a mould of an old button using Siligum. I used Martha Stewart paper clay (red, yellow and white to get orange)  and pressed it into the mould. When it was dry I rubbed some Gold Gilding Wax over the top to bring out the details.

This is a very different style of card for me and I’m not really sure about it!

I would like to enter the following chllenges:-
I followed this sketch from Sketch and Stash Challenge

The colours I used were from the Love to Create colour challenge

A Random Fan challenge- bright colours
Stamp and Create challenge- circles and dots
Crafting for the Craic- something with circles
A Creative Need challenge- textures and/or patterns.

Hydrangea watercolour resist card

Hydrangea watercolour resist card

I’ve found a new challenge blog today which inspired me to try a new technique. It is a challenge blog for watercolour cards and the challenge is watercolour resists (there are useful links to videos on the blog as well as examples). Since I have just started learning to watercolour this is perfect for me to try!!
I had decided to use a sketch for the card layout from the CAS Colours and Sketches challenge but to adapt it for a square card.

I used talc on my watercolourcard before embossing for a clean finish. For my main layer I tried using Sequin Waste as my mask, stamped through it in a slightly random fashion with my VersaMark Dazzle ink pad and then used Ranger Clear Embossing Powder and heat embossed it. I deliberately left the area that was going to be covered with a layer clear). I have all the Zig art and graphic twin ZIG Art and Graphic watercolour markers and decided to use various blues and purples to watercolour (the embossed areas resist the watercolour). I like to make craft area as beautiful as possible so I use this Marble Heart Chopping Board to mix and water down my watercolour pens! I use a Derwent Waterbrush to paint with.

This is my sequin waste layer.

On my next layer I used my Ranger Perfect Pen to make a swirl pattern and then heat embossed with clear powder. I used the same pens for my watercolour wash.

For my image I used the hydrangea stamp by inkylicious. I watercoloured with the same blues and purples plus greens.

As you can see I rounded all the corners with a Corner Punch and used Violet Metallic Marker on the edges. I did the same with the Lilac Pearlescent Card I layered them on. I used Brilliance Pearlescent Lavender ink for my sentiment and mounted it in the same way. I used a Round Watercolor Brush with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to add a hint of colour to the card scallop edges. I stuck it all together using foam pads (edges coloured with the metallic marker) for the image and sentiment layers to help them ‘pop’.

Here is a close up!

Inside the card I randomly washed the watercolours I had used for the front to help tie it all together.

I would like to enter my card for the following challenges
Allsorts challenge- masks and stencils
SweetPea Stamping- embossing wet or dry
Eclectic Paperie- embossing
CAS colour and sketch sketch challenge (see layout picture above)
101 Watercolour challenge- watercolour masks