Yesterday I had time to play around for awhile with watercolors. Although I’ve been following the CAS Watercolor Challenge for some time, I don’t often have a chance to play. The current challenge is “Something Blue.”
Here’s my card:
Once again, I pulled out the Altenew 36 pan watercolor set. I contemplated using my good Daniel Smith watercolors, but that would have required a bit of mixing to get the blues I wanted. It was easier to start with the several blues in the Altenew set and do a bit of mixing both on the palette and on the watercolor paper as well. I love the rich colors in the background piece, and decided a white die cut would be most effective.
This die cut is Simon Says’ “Morning Glory Vine.” The sentiment is from Simon Says “Tiny Words” white embossed on black and trimmed out. This will most likely be a birthday card since that’s the most frequent card I send. The sentiment lends itself to other occasions so it’s more versatile than usual. I decided to add some dimension by layering the watercolored piece on a smaller piece of Bristol cardstock and then again on the card base. I used a set of Spellbinder dies to cut each of the layers.
Definitely CAS, definitely watercolour, definitely blue. And very pretty. Tick, tick, tick, tick!
CAS and absolutely BEAUTIFUL Karen! Love the depth of blue you achieved with your water colored background and the white die cut pops beautifully against all that lovely blue! Thanks so much for sharing this beauty with us at CAS Watercolour!! :0)
You have a very beautiful water colour card – the blue reminds me of the beautiful almost summer skies of today.
Very effective. Lovely!
Loving those blues – often the background tends to be, well, in the background but yours is right there in the foreground! Super …
A lovely way to highlight your delicate die cut!
What a beautiful blue watercolor background, Karen! The water has worked it’s magic! Love the simple white die cut with it! Thanks so much for sharing with us at CAS Watercolour!
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