Tuesday 6 May 2014

Watercolour Class Day 1 - Second Post


I am re-posting this one so I can load it into the class gallery.  It only lets me link to one picture for each blog post. It might be something I'm doing wrong, but I don't have time (or inclination) to figure it out right now so I am doing this work around.

My second card also features the same technique - painting through a stencil (The Crafter's Workshop Mini Fish Scales). I stamped this lovely heron and grass cluster (both Old Island Stamp Company) and applied some different Distress Inks with a colour duster brush.  (It's fun to play in someone else's stamp room - you get to try all sorts of things!) The cardbase is stamped with a linen background stamp (Stampin' Up) using Dark Peony Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink for a wonderful effect like Kaffe Fassett's shot cottons. It's a gorgeous effect and it did look like the shot cotton fabric (warp and weft threads are different colours). I will be using this technique again (and again and again!).


I didn't have time to try the other two techniques, but they are ones I have done before.  This one was new to me and it was a lot of fun.

Thanks for stopping by!

6 comments:

  1. Love that heron stamp. I learned that I had to create a new post for each photo, I believe it is set up to reject identical URLs for posts.

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  2. Gorgeous. Such an interesting and lovely background.

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  3. I am so drawn to that Heron image. I love the fish scales in the background. It is all so pleasing when put together.

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  4. Wow, I love how your Heron looks against that gorgeous background!!

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