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

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Do somthing creative every day!

Thanks (so much), Curtain Call Color Challenge 53

My take for Stacey Shafer’s Curtain Call Color Challenge Act53!

After two years of having this stamp set Turning a New Leaf , I’d finally had a chance to play with it. Also, I’d used the retired SU set With Gratitude, one of my All time favorite leaf stamp sets. This maple leaf has its own distinctive shape that I find striking. To get the crinkled look, I’d sprayed water directly to the stamped cardstock and crumbled it all up.

Stamp Recipe: With Gratitude, Tiny Tags, PTI: Turning a New Leaf Ink: Daffodil Delight, Basic Gray, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White Accessories: Prettiest Kit, 4” Doily, Satin White Ribbon, cording, dimensional, tag punch

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