Watercolor #2 for AAA Birthday Challenges

Although I have a ways to go to perfect this technique, I finally gave no-line watercoloring a try. I used Ink on 3 for the stamping, and I was pleased with the way it worked. I used my MISTI to stamp the images, and that was a good decision as both needed a double stamping in order to be seen well enough. The lines remained clear until I touched them with the watercolor brush. Several days transpired between stamping and watercoloring the leaves.

Once again I used the Altenew 36 pan watercolor set which has wonderful colors for flowers, mixing together a couple of pinks, and using two different greens for the leaves. The stamped images are from my recent favorite set, Simon Says “Delicate Flowers.” I fussy cut the flowers after watercoloring, but ended up ordering the dies when I got a coupon code for Simon Says, and waited for them to arrive before die cutting the leaves. The circular mat was die cut with Papertrey Ink’s “Shape Shifter Circle #1,” using just the two outer dies.

The sentiment is from a new set from Waffle Flower, “Label Greetings.” I couldn’t resist the font or the narrow border around the sentiment. I embossed it in white on the same Raspberry Fizz cardstock as the card front.

The final embellishment were three small white pearls.

Entering this at AAA Birthday Challenge: Use Watercolors.

I’m also linking this up to the sister challenge AAA Cards for their 5th birthday celebration. This gets in just under the wire!