Watercolouring {Yippee!}

Happy Friday eve! I am so excited because I tried something different! I have dabbled before but usually I do not like what I create. Usually I stick to my style but I love all of the watercoloured cards and floral images I have been seeing. I needed to give it a whirl! I have all the product to make this style of card and so the WPLUS9-Throwback Thursday challenge was the perfect way to be inspired...especially the watercoloured backgrounds of Maureen's cards. This is my first real attempt at this technique but I hope to explore some more. You probably have tried this before but I thought I would share my steps.

1. I stamped my image in Versamark ink onto watercolour paper.
2. Then I heat set it with white embossing powder.
3. Then I got the paper wet with my water pen...in the areas I wanted to add ink.
4. Then I used some distress inks and allowed the ink to flow into those wet areas.
5. Then I heat dried my panel with my heat gun.

Keeping the design simple, I added a strip of vellum washi tape across the card base and matted the image with black paper. I stamped the sentiment in black ink. I added some twine at the bottom to tie in the watercolour paper tone.

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Anything Goes-Simon Says Stamp

WPLUS9-Throwback Thursday

Time Out Inspiration Challenge