Saturday 21 June 2014

Back on the watercolour...

The theme at LIM this week is watercolouring - well I don't need much of an excuse to play with that technique again!


I decided to have another go at the watercolour technique Dawn from Wplus9 showed on their blog a few weeks ago - stamping with 2nd generation distress ink and then using a brush and water to soften the stamping for a watercoloured look.  So naturally I went to my favourite Fresh Cut Florals set but needed something to put them in.   I used Joanna Sheen's trug, but instead of die cutting it, I used the die to emboss the shape into the watercolour card stock.  I then stamped the flowers and leaves using Dawn's technique, and then used the distress inks with the brush to colour in the trug - the embossed lines "hold" the ink so it's easy to paint ;-)   A little more ink underneath to ground it and a sentiment from the set and a thin blue mat to pull out the berries and its finished.

I have wedding invites to finish today so I'd best get cracking!


10 comments:

  1. This is stunning Tara and a great description too!
    I love it!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  2. Just love your colouring

    Kathyk
    Guest DT member Simply Less Is More

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  3. Really nice, Tara! Love the shading of the basket (trug?), it looks so real!

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  4. Wow! Tara that's absolutely beautiful. I love the watercolour technique - works perfectly for your trug of flowers!!

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  5. Amazing! The trug looks perfect, love this Tara
    Thanks for joining us at Less is More
    Anne
    LIM Designer

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  6. Your basket of blooms is FANTABULOUS Tara.
    Very skilled artist I'd say.
    Thanks so much for sharing and taking part.
    Sarah xx
    Less is More

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  7. So beautiful. I love this technique and that set is on my wish list.

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  8. Wow this is wonderful. Tracey R

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  9. Beautiful basket of flowers with the watercolour technique!

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  10. This is great, and you've captured the shadow underneath perfectly!

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