Online Card Class: Watercolor-Exploring Mediums Day 2

Let’s just say that Day 2 of the Online Card Class on watercolor was a lot more challenging than Day 1. I’m a huge fan of the no-line watercolor technique, but find it nearly impossible to execute. I must have watercolored ten little animals tonight before I finally got one I was willing to use on a card! Not that I think it even looks easy to do, but it never looks as difficult as I find it to be. But eventually I ended up with one little piggy and made a birthday card.

I used a combination of tube watercolors and Zig Clean Color markers that I swiped onto my craft mat and picked up with a watercolor brush. The stamp set is Baby Party Animals from Simon Says which has the cutest little animals, and a font I like a lot for the sentiment. I used a piece of Summer Sunrise card stock to mat the watercolor piece (Fluid Hot Press) and then mounted it with some fun foam to a top-folding card made from Orange Zest.

In the midst of watercoloring baby animals, I got so frustrated I pulled out Papertrey Ink’s Happiness in Bloom to try Jen Rzasa’s technique of swiping your stamp with Distress Inks and then misting them before stamping on the watercolor paper. I’m not a huge fan of the end result, but like the little animals, it was a learning experience.

I used Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade, and Mowed Lawn Distress Inks on a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper. Then I sprayed the card with some Heidi Swapp gold Color Shine. That’s another technique I could use some practice with. The “birthday” sentiment was stamped on a piece of watercolor paper that I’d use to create an ombre effect. It just happened to match perfectly.