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.
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!