Monday, July 6, 2015

Watercolouring with Distress Inks

Yesterday I had the chance to get inky and I was pretty excited to play with some new goodies I picked up at my local craft store. I bought a new floral stamp from impression obsession and I paired it with some distress inks.



To do this watercolor technique, you will need a piece of watercolor paper, a water pen or paintbrush and some distress ink.



1. Stamp your floral image in your choice of distress ink onto your watercolor paper.

2. Then using your paintbrush and a bit of water or using your water pen, go to the stamped image and pull the color from it.

3. Then I used a aqua color in the distress ink to color around the flowers.

I hope this makes sense and that you have fun making your own water color card!

15 comments:

  1. This is gorgeous and sounds like a fun way to watercolor. I'm not normally a "flower" stamp person but have to say you have inspired me to given them a try ;-)

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  2. Just one word >>>>beautiful !!!

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  3. Very pretty, and yes, your directions makes sense. TFS

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  4. Gorgeous card, Lesley! Love your no-line watercoloring. That flower is a great stamp, too. I am a sucker for flower stamps, but I don't have that one - yet. tee hee

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  5. Oooo! Very pretty, Lesley! Love the soft watercoloring. Glad you're getting some stamping time and enjoying your summer break! Hugs!

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  6. Beautiful soft treatment of the flowers and I love your color selections!

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  7. Simple, gorgeous, and I love this, Lesley! Thanks for sharing the how-to. I'll have to look for some outline floral images so I can try this, too.

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  8. Stunning card Lesley...love your gorgeous water coloring.

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  9. This turned out beautifully!

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  10. Wow! This is so gorgeous, Lesley!

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  11. These flowers are soft and beautiful, Lesley!

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  12. You inspired me to get back into water coloring. I love flowers and butterfly's on my cards and even water colored a cat. Thank you so much.

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Lesley :)