May Technique Blog Hop

World of Watercolors

Welcome to A Year of Card Techniques Blog Hop where each month we feature a different card technique. We’ve assembled a team of card makers who range from new to advanced, so you’ll see a great variety of cards and ideas. 

For May, we are venturing into the world of watercolor. There are so many watercoloring techniques available to us today; far too many to list here. But actions speak louder than words so our team has worked with their favorite mediums to bring you lots of examples and loads of inspiration. 

If you would like to check out our past technique hops, you can do that here: 

• January-Shaving Cream Marbleizing
• February-So Sketchy
• March-no hop this month 
• April-Stamp Set Showdown

We have an amazing sponsor this month, Jodie Park of Close to My Heart:

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And the awesome prize this month is:

We really appreciate feedback, so please leave a comment on each of the blogs in the hop today. One winner will be chosen from all comments on the hop as of May 26, 2017. The winner will be announced in our June hop; so be sure to come back next month.

And speaking of winners, the lucky hopper from last month is Golden Goddess Designs; picked by Random Name Picker. Congratulations! Please get in touch with me at wpayne@email.com by May 26th to claim your prize.

You should have arrived here from Kim's blog, Katydid Cards. If you're visiting here first, you might want to start at the beginning so you don't miss a thing and increase your chances of winning by commenting on each blog.

I love the watercolor look but don't always have a chance to play with it, so I found this month's challenge quite enjoyable. Here are a few of the cards I came up with.


Images stamped with VersaMark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Then I painted inside the images, layering colors to add dimension. When everything was dry, I added soft gray outline/shadow. Then the painted panel was adhered to the front of a plain black card.

Watercolor lift technique, using the Starburst background stamp from Fun Stampers Journey. First I covered watercolor paper with big puddles of intense color and used a heat gun to ensure it was completely dry. Next I stamped the background image with VersaMark and embossed with clear embossing powder. The final step is spritzing again with water and pressing with folded paper towels to "lift" the color away in the places that aren't protected by the embossing. I finished the card with a word die that came with my FSJ Amaze machine.

  

This watercolor sample did NOT come out as I had hoped - so I dug out the April Bloom Box stamp set, T-Rex Love, to see if I could salvage something from it. To create the starry sky for my dinosaurs I dropped rubbing alcohol onto wet watercolor. The ground started with a light brown wash, then I dry-brushed in bits of darker brown while the paper was just damp.

This card started with a salted watercolor background. I sprinkled kosher salt over the wet watercolored surface, then brushed it off after it was completely dry. I mounted both the positive and negative die cut butterfly shapes onto a brushed gold card front.

Here's another example of the salted background - but with less salt on a slightly drier surface.

This fish from the Fun Stampers Journey set called Rainbow Bubbles was stamped on watercolor paper that had been "smooshed" into a puddle of watercolor and allowed to dry.

Now you’re off to visit with Jearise at Lorby's World. Hope you had fun and thanks for stopping by. See you next month with another technique!

Here’s the full line-up in case you get lost: 

Sharon
Claudia
Kim
Wilma - You are Here!
Jearise
Amanda
Card A Day Challenge Team
Lisa
Sandy
Jodie
Candy
Debbie