Day 2 of my Watercolor for Card Makers was just as much fun as the first.  The teachers are amazing and they have so much information to share with us.

Today I choose to focus on the Soft Watercolor Wash Background technique.  The beauty of this technique is to not have any pencil lines showing in the color wash.  I used my Stampin’ Up! watercolor pencils (Retired), watercolor paper and a brush. 

I love how my card turned out.  I choose to use colors that I hardly use which were orange, light green and yellow.  The combination turned out beautiful.

Sooooo, what do you think?  I can’t believe I created that all by myself.  I amaze myself sometimes!!

This is how I created this card:

1. I used the watercolor pencils to simple color on the watercolor paper in the different colors.  I didn’t mix the colors while coloring them.

2. I used my brush and applied water to my card to soften the watercolor lines. I allowed the colors to mix a little to have some blending where the colors met.

3. I used my heat gun to dry the paper.  Once the paper was COMPLETELY dried I added orange waters splats to the card.

4. To add the water splats, I touched my water brush to the tip of my orange watercolor pencil for color.  Then I lightly flashed the brush above the paper.

5. I used the heat gun again to dry all of the water splats.

6. I placed gold bakers twine down where I wanted it to be.  I added a little bit of adhesive as to hold it in place.

7. I stamped my sentiment, punched it out and adhered it to the bakers twine.

8. I adhered the mask to the card base for a complete Soft Watercolor Wash Background Card!

Truly Amazing!!!

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~Kymona