I love to add watercolour into my cards, but it can be time-consuming or not necessarily within someone’s skill set. However, faux watercolouring is so easy and yet gives that watercolour look with little to no effort! Today’s post is part of a blog hop for the August Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp, more details on that below. I’ve linked all supplies with compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.
FAUX WATERCOLOUR
KEY INGREDIENTS
- Simon Says Stamp August Card Kit, in particular, the Hello Sunshine stamp set.
- Tim Holtz Distress Inks – Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade and Festive Berries.
STEP BY STEP HOW TO
- Line up the sun rays image from the Hello Sunshine set in the Misti with a piece of watercolour card.
- Ink up the whole of the image with Scattered Straw Distress Ink.
- Carry on inking the image but this time with Dried Marigold Distress Ink over the lower two-thirds of the image.
- Finish up by inking the bottom of the sun rays with Spiced Marigold and a touch of Festive Berries Distress Ink.
- Spritz liberally with a water mister until you see beads of ink forming.
- Stamp onto the watercolour card and keep the image in place for a minute. Lift to reveal the lovely watercoloured effect.
- I left the piece to dry tipped at a slight angle, so the water pooled at the base of the rays.
- Splatter lightly with gold paint.
- Set the watercolour card back in the Misti and stamp the ‘you are my sunshine’ sentiment in clear embossing ink.
- Sprinkle with Antique Gold embossing powder and heat set.
- Embellish with hearts die cut from card painted with Festive Berries Distress Ink, foam mounted and covered with Glossy Accents.
- Add Nuvo Sugared Almond and Copper Penny droplets and a few sequins.
- Tie with twine and set the piece aside.
- Die-cut the Detail Petal Plate die from Fog card and foam mount to a card base cut and scored from Ivory card.
- Add the sun rays piece again with foam adhesive.
TAKEAWAYS
I love this watery effect, and it is so simple to do! I cut a few panels of watercolour card and repeated the stamped rays multiple times in just a few minutes, so I now have lots of pieces to make cards, and I can just add a sentiment that matches the occasion. I hope you give this simple technique a try and enjoy the resulting faux watercolour effect!
FURTHER EXAMPLES
Faux watercolouring brings these tulips from the Layered Tulips set to life. You can find the original post here.
Lots of watery effects with these balloons from the Big Birthday Greetings set. You can find the original post here.
BLOG HOP
As mentioned above, this post is part of a blog hop for the August Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp. Hopefully, you’ve arrived here from Laura’s blog, but if not then Simon’s blog is a great place to start.
Now it’s time to head on over to …
Nichol Spohr!
Simon Says Stamp blog
Nina-Marie Trapani
Laura Bassen
Debby Hughes
Nichol Spohr
Suzy Plantamura
Caly Person
Amy Rysavy
SUPPLIES
You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or shop icon to get taken directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you! Items marked with an asterisk (*) provided by a store or the manufacturer. You can read my affiliate and product disclosure here. I genuinely appreciate your support.
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Summary of the project which gives all the views of the card in one photo :D I’d love if you pinned and called by on Pinterest :D
Really love this watercolor technique and was wowed by your other samples as well.
These cards are all so lovely!
Fantastic cards. Great kit. Thank you.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this look!! I am a “wanna be” water color painter but struggle with that particular technique…I can do this!! The effect is WOWza and so achievable…awesome sauce!
great technique, love the look and the cards!
These are beautiful cards!
So beautiful!
These are just fabulous! I really love the tulips! Such vivid colors!