Deja Vu

You may be forgiven for thinking you are seeing double day as the card I have is very similar to the last on I shared, but when I saw the theme at LIM today was flowers, I just couldn't resist having another go at the same kind of card but I did do a different floral arrangement!  http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/week-172-theme.html

I really love the "flooding" the background with colour and letting it spill beyond the embossing.  It makes the whole watercolouring thing a hell of a lot more manageable for me!

Right - I promise I'll share something less floral and watercoloury tomorrow.......

Watercolour Flowers

I've been following the latest watercolour class at Online Card Classes this week but I've been struggling with it as a medium and really didn't think it was going to be for me.  However, I finally found a technique that works for me - and it's totally against my normal need for control and everything I ever learnt about colouring - going outside the lines!

I was inspired by the current challenge from Clearly Besotted - http://stampingsharing.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/clearly-besotted-challenge-11-colour.html which is these gorgeous set of colours and I used some blooms from Fresh Flowers and a sentiment from Fabulous Fuchias.   I simply embossed the flowers in white and then coloured them in with a mix of pan water colours and luminarte shimmer watercolours but on the first layer I made the colours very light and loose and let them flood outside the lines - I know shock horror right!  I added hints of the 3 main colours around and about to get a soft background and balanced feel and then when it was dry I went back to the images and added a couple more layers of detail.  I finished with some strips of card and washi for balance.   I have to say it is just about my favourite card ever.......