Have you tried the no-line watercoloring technique? It’s sooo easy and looks beautiful! Enjoy the tutorial below.
Technique:
Pick the image that you want to watercolor. Ink up your image with Sahara Sand ink and stamp lightly two times on a piece of scrap paper, then stamp on your card stock. This method gives you an extremely light stamped image that will be almost unseen once you watercolor.
Supplies for this project:
Free as a Bird Cling Stamp Set*
*purchase this stamp set and the coordinating Stitched Nested Labels Dies as a BUNDLE and save 10%. OR
**purchase the Bird Ballad Suite which includes this stamp set, the dies and the coordinating Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper at 10% off featured on page 91 of the new annual catalog.
Ink
Sahara Sand
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
Watercolor Pencils
Early Espresso, Melon Mambo, Calyso Coral, Daffodil Delight,
Bermuda Bay and Old Olive
Paper (including cutting dimensions):
Whisper White card stock (CS) 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″
Brights 6×6 card stock (Bermuda Bay w/ white script) 4″ x 5-1/4″
Coastal Cabana card stock 3-1/4″ x 4-1/4″
Shimmery White card stock (3″ x 4″)
Accessories:
Bone Folder
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Paper Snips
Aqua Painter
Instructions for this project:
1. Stamp the bird image on the Shimmery White CS using the no-line watercolor technique as described above.
2. Next, stamp the larger flower from the stamp set using the same technique on a scrap piece of Shimmery White CS.
3. You’re now ready to color the images using the Watercolor Pencils. Once you’ve colored the images, use the Aqua Painter to blend the colors. If you would like your image to be darker, you can go over with your watercolor pencil and add to it.
4. Using the Paper Snips, fussy cut out the flower image.
5. Stamp the sentiment “thank you” in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on a piece of Shimmery White CS measuring 1/2″ x 1-3/4″.
Now it’s time to assemble your card. See placement in the first picture. I popped up the Coastal Cabana CS and the flower with dimensionals.
Hope you enjoyed learning about this no-line watercoloring technique! Please drop me a line if you have any questions. If you’d like to purchase any of the supplies that I used in this post, please go here for my online shop.
Also, don’t forget about July’s bonus days if you’re going to make a purchase. What are Bonus Days? See my post from July 1st.
Hugs,
Wendy