Thanks for joining me. Today is Day Five of Watercolor Week. Here are the links to the other four days in case you missed it...
Today's card features a super fun technique that I learned from
Jennifer Rzasa in
Watercolor Class. You add salt to the watercolor while its still wet and it moves the color around and gives great results. I tried it for the background of this card...
I used some Light Green
Peerless Watercolor and water and added it to my
cardstock to create a background. Then I sprinkled on some table salt in different areas and let it air dry. Once dry, I rubbed the salt off with my fingers. It does all the work for you and I LOVE the results. You can also see where I put the salt. It gives it an "oxidized" look with tiny, brown specs...
I wanted to keep the card simple and keep the focus on that amazing background so I die-cut a Papertrey Ink Speech Bubble die in the matching watercolor cardstock several times and glued them together, creating an inlaid, raised embellishment. I stamped the sentiment on top with
THIS stamp set as well as those stars. I mounted the piece onto a black card base.
Now because I cut the speech bubble from the watercolor piece, I had an awesome little die that I just had to use on a card so I thought I would share a bonus card with you...
I did the same raised embellishment as the other card by cutting out several more of that speech bubble image and adhering them together. I decided to place the stars in the same spot as the first card but use silver embossing powder...
Here's a great tip I've learned-EMBRACE THE IMPERFECTION! When I heat embossed my first star, The embossing powder showed up in areas that I did not intend it to. So instead of ditching the card and starting over, I embraced the imperfection. I decided to add more Versamark with a
pen and create a messy, faux spray mist look. I like how it turned out!
Okay, I'll be back tomorrow with yet another watercolor card. Thanks for stopping by!
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