Wedding Watercolor Stamped CARD

Watercoloring stationary is a huge trend right now.

I wanted to create a wedding card using watercolors to match this lovely wedding invitation (invitation to the left).  I inked my stamps (Turning A New Leaf-PTI) heavily with water and stamped images onto the wet watercolor paper (wet-on-wet technique).  

Then played around with my aqua painter.

                         

Adding (ink) paint to a wet layer of paint on the paper produces a soft, diffused look as the colors mix.  Being able to predict the results you're going to get working wet-on-wet takes practice, but as this technique can produce spectacular, lively types of cards, paintings, it's well 

worth experimenting with it.

CRAFTERS TIP: when watercoloring your paper can curl!  If you have time leading up to your event – stack all papers under really heavy books/bricks for like a week to flatten them out.   

If you don’t have time ... iron them.

All supplies Stampin' Up! ... unless noted.

Recipe ...

Stamps: PTI (Papertrey Ink): Turning a New Leaf, SU Word Play (retired)
Ink: Classic-Rich Razzelberry, Wisteria Wonder, Soft Suede (stamped-off)
Paper: Watercolor paper 140 lb, Elegant Eggplant
Accessories: Pearl Basic Jewels (2 mm), Rhinestone, Aqua Painter-medium, Tim Holtz water spritzer, the beautiful lace Artisan Embellishment Kit (retired), 2-3/8" Scallop Circle Punch, 1-3/4" Circle Punch, Dimensionals
Technique:  Wet-on-Wet Watercoloring

Enjoy & Share!

Do somthing creative every day!

Fabulous Florets For You CARD

Stamp Recipe:  SU Fabulous Florets, Great Friend-retired
Paper:  Watercolor paper, Tempting Turquoise
Ink:  Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive
Accessories:  Tempting Turquoise 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Aqua pen
Technique:  Watercoloring

Enjoy! 

It's High Tea Time for The Paper Players #40

Wow, it's week #4 and my last of the Guest Designer spot with The Paper Players.   I want to say good bye and thank all of the Design Team ladies Lesley, Nance, LeAnne, Anne Marie, Jaydee and Ann for all their ongoing wonderful support.  It was a wonderful fun experience working with all of you.  High tea cheers to all!

Here's my take: 

 

This week we have a Sketch Challenge for you! I love sketch challenges. Just pick your favorite color combo and stamp set and play along with us this week!

Do you like the tea bag?  My little vellum tea bag was INspired/CAsed by Carrie Gaskin/Artistic Avenger whose original can be seen here with a few slight changes.  Three easy steps shown below. I used my tag punch, cover the cs tag piece with vellum, filled the tea bag with real tea (for a scent ... Mmmm), then used the string that came from a real tea bag already tea stained.   Check out her blog, you'll fall in love with this talented artist: Carrie Gaskin. 

Three easy steps to make a tea bag!

Tag punch, a slightly larger piece of vellum & fold over



Yippee ... tea bags!



Stamp Recipe:  Morning Cup, Tiny Tags

Ink: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Rose Red, Pear Pazzazz, Crumb Cake, River Rock, Momento Black

Paper: Watercoloring Paper, Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, Springtime Vintage DSP, White Vellum Card Stock

Accessories: Victoria 5/8" Crochet Trim, Chantilly 1/2" Crochet Trim, Aqua Painter, Blender Pen, Dauber, 3/4" Circle Punch, Extra Large Tag Punch, Scallop Oval XL Punch, 1-3/8" x 5/8" Oval Large Punch, Dimensionals, Misc. Buttons

Technique:  Watercoloring

Come over and play!

Enjoy!