Totally Techniques: Water Coloring

Good morning stampers!

This month's technique is called Watercoloring Technique! It's a really fun and you are going to see some really beautiful cards from the Totally Techniques Design Team!

Water Coloring Technique

Well, I'm not master at this, but I try and am getting better! But I do love the Color Combo I ended up with - Calypso Coral, Mint Macaron, Basic Gray.

I am much more comfortable with the Blender Pen, which I used for the stem and leaves.  However, I did use the Aqua Painter on the flower, lightly coloring the flower in a light shade of Calypso Coral; then re-applying darker towards the center of the flower.

If you're a Stamping and Blogging Member, Sandi MacIver has a ton of different water coloring video techniques to show you.... step by step...and they are WOW!!!

To make this card:

1. I stamped the Floral image with Staz-On Black ink.
2. Then colored with the Aqua Painter and Calypso Coral.  First lightly covering the flower in a lighter shade of Calypso Coral. Then apply more and more to the center of the flower for a darker look.
3. Using the Blender Pend, the center is Crushed Curry but gets covered by Rhinestones!  The Stem is in Mint Macaron.
4. I also used the Aqua Painter and Mint Macaron to lightly shade around the stamped floral image, but intentionally letting you see the brush strokes.
5. Then stamped with the background stamp in the You've Got This stamp set around the edges fo the focal panel, again using Mint Macaron.
6. Matted the focal panel in Basic Gray.
7. Stamped the greeting and matted with Basic Gray.
8. On the Card Base, which is Basic Gray, I adhered a 4 x 5-1/4 piece of the Perfectly Artistic Designer Series Paper in gray....it matched perfectly with the softness of the card.

Stampin' Up! Products Used

Stamp Set

• You've Got This

Paper

• Whisper White
• Basic Gray
• Perfectly Artistic Designer Series Paper (Sale-a-bration 2016)

Inks

• Mint Macaron
• Calypso Coral
• Crushed Curry
• StazOn Black

Accessories

• Stampin' Dimensionals
• Basic Rhinestone Jewels
• Watermelon Wonder 1" Stitched Satin Ribbon 
• Aqua Painter
• Blender Pen

Totally Techniques Design Team

Let's go check out more masterpieces!  Whooo-hooo!!! Enjoy!

Sandi MacIver
Patrice Halliday-Larsen
Amy Koenders
Lee Conrey
Shelagh Freemantle
Marine Wiplier 
Erna Logtenberg
Heather Wright-Porto -- you are here -- Thanks for visiting me!
Shannean Moncrieff
Nadine Weiner
Alison Solven


The next blog on this totally awesome, Totally Techniques blog hop is Shannean Moncrieff!

 

Want to learn more techniques?

Then join us every month for Totally Techniques blog hop!  This month is Water Coloring!  The Floating Re-Inker Technique is a type of water coloring that Sandi shows off!  Oh it's beautiful and the the March 2016 Card Class!

Come join us today!