Blogger Challenge: Week 65

This week's challenge was to watercolor. You don't see watercoloring a lot here and there's a good reason for that. I'm not good at watercoloring at all! I don't get that dark and light stuff and nothing ever blends well for me and it all ends up looking a mess. But, I gave it a shot for the challenge anyway . . .

I used the open flower image from Wonderful You for my main images. I stamped it three times in black Staz-on ink on some watercolor paper. I used an aquapainter and reinkers to watercolor the images. For the flowers, I used Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, and Rose Red. I added some Dazzling Diamonds to the centers of the flowers to cover the mess I made at the flower centers. I used a few green inks to color the stems, then finished with a light watercolor wash of Baja Breeze in the white space.

I kept the rest of the design for the card pretty simple. I tied a piece of white grosgrain ribbon around the card front, then layered a piece of Pink Pirouette Pattern Series paper over the ribbon. I placed a trio of Stamping Bella's sparkly pink dots on the patterned paper, along where the watercolored panel would lie. The watercolored panel is attached to a piece of Kiwi Kiss paper, then attached to the paper. I like the layout a lot, even though I'm not thrilled with how the image panel turned out.

If you want to see some amazing watercolored creations, check out the watercolored creations from the very talented members of the blogger challenge group. Links to their blogs are in the sidebar on the right.

Materials Used:
Wonderful You stamp set, Black Staz-on, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss, Old Olive, Always Artichoke, and Baja Breeze reinkers, aquapainter, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, and Kiwi Kiss cardstock, Patterns Series designer paper, Crystal Effects, Dazzling Diamonds (Stampin' Up!); pink dots (Stamping Bella); white grosgrain ribbon, watercolor paper (Michaels)