More Watercolor

I’ve fallen behind in the Watercolor for Cardmakers class. The featured cards just get more and more beautiful every day, and I’m a bit overwhelmed by all I want to try. I do have a couple cards to share. The first one is watercoloring a stamped image from Jennifer Razsa’s lesson on Day 5. In my desire to use some of my older wooden stamps I chose “Happy Birthday Topiaries” by Uptown Rubber Stamps. I don’t even know if they’re in business anymore. Every time I purge my stamp collection, this one makes the cut. It’s whimiscal nature gets to me every time. 

I used my Inktense watercolor pencils for this one, and it was definitely a learning experience. I’ll be giving it another go once I’ve tried some of the other techniques.

The next card was also a learning experiences from the lessons on Day 3:  watercolor stamping. This involves applying ink directly to the stamp and then adding water to the stamped image. I followed along with a video by Dawn Woleslagle on her WPlus9 blog to create this card. She’s one of the instructors for the class, as well.

I used another older wooden stamp by Judith for the mason jar. It’s a bit bigger than I would have liked so I’ll search through my acrylic stamps next time for a better choice. The flowers, foliage, and sentiment are all from Dawn’s “Fresh Cut Flowers.”

I’m anxious to try this again soon, as I think I know what I what’s needed to improve the watercoloring here. I’m hoping to find time today to watch the last three days worth of videos for class so tomorrow I can give another technique a try. I’ve always thought these classes were well worth the money, but this one far exceeded my expectations. I’ll be working on these techniques all summer!