How to do faux watercolouring with Totally Techniques Blog Hop

 

Hello and welcome to my share for the Totally Techniques Stampin' Up! demonstrator blog hop sharing lots of tips and tutorials for the Faux Watercoloring Technique.  

I wasn't at all sure what to do for this challenge, but I hope I've covered the brief and that  you can follow my video and have a go yourself.  It's not rocket science and is actually a very forgiving technique that could lend itself to lots of different stamp images and creates fun cards using as few or as many ink colours as you wish.  

I used the stamp set Wild and Sweet which includes a Racoon, Koala and a Panda.  I've made a card using each of the images and a couple of additonal stamps or embellishments to just add more texture.  

For once I've even made a video that I hope you'll take a look at and be kind, I'm no top performer, but it's honest and covers the brief I think.  

The handmade card above showcases the lovely Koala which I framed very simply with Deckle Edged Rectangles and a sentiment from Botanical Layers. 

The video to create the watercolour scene is here:-

My second card uses the Racoon and again is very simple letting the image do the talking.  I matted my image onto retiring Evening Evergreen card and then onto Mossy Meadow.  Just like the card above I stamped tone on tone with Grey Granite ink and card to create a subtle base.  

My final card and the final stamp in this nature lover's stamp set shares the Panda image.  This image is matted onto a Mossy Meadow border and then onto the returning colour Pretty Peacock which can be green or blue depending upon which colours you team it with and makes it very flexible and a popular returning colour to our main colour offering.  I stamped a simple Happy Birthday in copper embossing and added some copper brushed metal dots onto dry embossed card base.  I used the 'stripes' folder from a double pack of folders.  

I hope you love my take on the challenge, but don't forget to visit the rest of the hop and also remember that the Last Chance List will be gone forever by the end of 1 May in readiness for the new annual catalogue launching on 2 May.  If you wish to have a copy please do contact me soon to find out how to get your hands on one. 

Have a great bank holiday weekend for all my UK readers.

Hugs Zoe x

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Supplies Used

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Water Painters

Wild and Sweet Stamp set

Fluid 100 watercolour paper