I was inspired by some recent cards on my fellow MDS Monday team members blog. Heidi has made some really pretty watercolor cards and I wanted to get out my aqua painters and make some too! The Aqua Painters do get a lot of use in my house, I even bought some for my kids so they would leave mine alone!
I inked up my stamp from the Hostess set "Bloom with Hope" and then gave the stamp a spritz with some Stampin' Mist (stamp cleaner ~ you can use water but this is always sitting on my desk and it smells pretty) and stamped my paper.
I took my thin Aqua Painter and added a bit of ink and water in Rose Red to the flowers, letting the ink get smeary.
I did the same with the green, in this case Mossy Meadow.
I next used Soft Sky to add a background. I also gave it a bit of distressing by adding some crumb cake dots with the tip of a broken pencil.
I cut out an oval with the Oval Collection framelits. I added a little depth to the top layer by sponging along all the edges and using Versamark (a watermark ink) to ink up the leaf stamp from the same set. Versamark gives a nice tone on tone color effect.
I added some ribbon and a Happy birthday and I was done!
I think it turned out rather pretty but a bit safe, did you check out this one by Heidi? Not safe at all, but stunning, I need to be a bit freer with my water, I keep the brush a bit drier. I'm going to try to let loose a bit next time :)
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