Tag: watercolour

Watercolour Painting with Stampin’ Up! Inks

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I think I shared here that I recently started taking a watercolour painting class. Well, I’m 3 weeks in and I’m hooked! I love it! I’m loving it so much that I went straight down into my basement after class last weekend and did some more watercolour painting with Stampin’ Up! inks. This summer I’ll look into getting my own brushes and paints. But in the meantime the range of colours Stampin’ Up! has is pretty wide, so I don’t have to worry too much about mixing colours… as long as I have them.

This week we were sketching and painting birds and tree branches. (Check out my Facebook page to see my paintings) So when I got home I kind of kept going… at least with the branches anyway. I used Pecan Pie and a Water Painter to create a few branches on some watercolour paper. Then I added a few Lemon Lime Twist leaves. But instead of birds, I painted blossoms using Bubble Bath ink. At first I thought I’d add a bird. But my creativity didn’t want to flow that way.

To get the ink colours on your Water Painter there are a few different ways. The first is to put a drop of ink refill on an acrylic block or other flat surface. This is what I prefer to do whenever possible. Another way is to squish some ink onto the lid of your inkpad. And if you have a Stampin’ Spot, you can stamp the ink pad onto a block, etc.

Watercolour Painting with Stampin' Up! inks

I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do with this piece yet. Maybe I’ll turn it into a card. Who knows?! In the meantime though, I’m going to keep watercolour painting with Stampin’ Up! inks.

Check out a recent card I made using watercolouring here.

Easy Watercolouring with Flowers of Beauty

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So last weekend I started a watercolour painting class. It’s someting I’ve been thinking about for a while. I’m excited to see what we create over the next few weeks, but there were definitely some parts that were frustrating. So to ease some of my frustration I did some easy watercolouring with Flowers of Beauty.

The “easy” part is that I stamped my images first and then coloured them in using a Water Painter and some ink refills. To do this I placed a drop of ink refill on one of my acrylic blocks and then used a wet Water Painter to add the colours to the cardstock.

For the flowers I used Berry Burst, Calypso Coral and Daffodil Delight. I chose those colours because they’re some of the colours from the strips of Celebratory Sips Designer Series Paper I have on my Daffodil Delight card base and Old Olive card mat. For the leaves I used Old Olive.

The sentiment is from the retired Dahlia Days stamp set. This was one of my favourites from a couple of years ago. And I can’t bring myself to get rid of it! I stamped it using Old Olive ink and die cut it with one of the Something Fancy dies. Then I popped it up using some Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also added some white twine underneath and a couple of Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

Easy Watercolouring with Flowers of Beauty

At some point I’ll share some of my creations from my class on social. So stay tuned! Come find me on Facebook and Instagram.

In the meantime I’ll keep doing some easy watercolouring with Flowers of Beauty and other stamp sets in my craft stash.

Check out another card I made using the Celebratory Designer Series Paper here.

Watercolour Wash Background

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Lately I’ve been doing a lot of colouring. First with my Stampin’ Blends and then more recently with my Watercolour Pencils. While I was crafting some of these cards, the idea popped in my head to create a watercolour wash background. Plus I thought it’d be a great background for all the butterflies I’ve been colouring!

I’ve been using the Sketched Butterflies stamp set with my Watercolour Pencils, so I used those to help me pick my colour combination. And in Assortment 2 there’s Night of Navy and Coastal Cabana, which I thought would work well together. I used Night of Navy for my card base. Then on top of that I used some Coastal Cabana ink to create my watercolour wash background. It’s really easy to do and it looks really nice!

All you need in some Watercolour Paper, the ink refill of your colour choice, some water and a paint brush. Add a drop of ink refill onto an acrylic block or something like that to start. Then with a wet paint brush, or Water Painter in my case, pick up a touch of the ink and start spreading it over the watercolour paper. Adding more water to spread out and lighten the colour. Or adding more ink for a darker colour. You really don’t need much ink at all.

Once that was dry I stamped using Night of Navy ink. Then on top of this I added some watercoloured Sketched Butterflies which I die cut with the coordinating dies and popped up with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. The sentiment is also from the Sketched Butterflies stamp set. And I die cut that with one of the smaller Stylish Shapes dies. Then to finish it off I added a few Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

Watercolour Wash Background

I love how easy it was to create this watercolour wash background! This is definitely a technique I’m going to use more often!

Check out another card I crafted using watercolour here.

And grab everything you need to recreate this card in my online shop. Make sure to post a pic of your card design. I’d love to see how yours turns out!