A Rainbow of Watercolors

Hi readers! Happy Sunday to you! Have you gotten into watercoloring? Have you tried the technique yet?  I must say it’s as fun as it is beautiful and there really is a range for level of difficulty. If you haven’t, give it a whirl!!  I’m pleased to welcome back guest designer Teri Anderson with some seriously awesome inspiration!
Enjoy!
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Hi there, Simon friends! So happy to see you all again and bring a simple technique and a few cards your way.

I don’t know about you, but I sure dig the look of stamps that are more on artsy collage side,  I’m not a super artsy stamper though so I’m always in the hunt for not-so-intimidating ways to use them.

Enter: The Watercolor Background technique.

This is such an easy way to get some mileage out of those more artsy stamps.

All you need is watercolor pencils, some watercolor paper, a couple artsy stamps and a good black ink pad.

Cut a few strips of paper and scribble some color onto them with watercolor pencils. Don’t be too fussy. Just regular old scribbles will do.
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Spread the color with water. Use either a waterbrush or good old paint brush.
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After the colors dry, you’ll get a whole pile of pretty papers that look kinda like this.
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I took those papers you see and made cards with them.
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For my first three cards, I used a couple artsy looking stamps from Technique Tuesday. I simply inked up with black ink and stamped right on top of the watercolored panels.
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It’s such an easy technique, but the results are really stunning.

And to finish each of these cards, I added a few gems and stamped a sentiment with Technique Tuesday’s Sending Smiles stamp set.

I lived a bit on the edge when I made fourth card.

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For this one, I used Technique Tuesday’s Scritch Scratch stamp to repeatedly stamp a pattern onto one of my watercolor papers. Then I used die-cut the awesome word out of it of a couple times to use on it on my card.

Got to admit that I think the awesome words look pretty cool with the color and Scritch Scratch pattern on it.

Thanks for having me today! See you again soon!

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Thanks for reading today and thanks to Teri for this rainbow of fun inspiration!

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  1. Terri makes it look so easy . . . I will definitely try this. . . the paintbrush stamp is perfect for this technique. Thank you.

  2. What a great idea, quite straight forward yet very effective. I will definitely be giving it a go. Thank you for sharing. Lizzie, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

  3. This post is awesome! I am new to stamping and I love the watercolour look, but have not attempted it yet. It now sounds quite easy. Thanks for the post!

  4. This looks like great fun. I have some stamps and stencils that would work with this technique. To my craft room. . . .

  5. Wow, great technique, wonderful results. Thanks for a chance to win anything by Technique Tuesday, just love them.

  6. Thanks for sharing such an impactive idea. I can think of SO many stamps that would work great with this technique!

  7. Terri,
    Thank you so much great ideas…… definitely gives me a chance to use my Inktense pencils more. Oh yeah! awesome cards by the way.

    Happy New Year.

  8. OMG that stamp is a definite on my wishlist! And I have been procrastinating all week to make some thank you cards!

  9. Great techniques!! I have always been a little afraid of water coloring. I love the way of coloring the paper and then using the die phrase. Thank you!

  10. Thanks for this tutorial. I thought I could muddle through it but this comes in handy. I love your cards and the one where you cut the words out is very cool!!

  11. I love watercoloring! I’m still trying to get better at it but I love the look of it! These are great cards! I love how you did the word die cut and colored it. I’m gonna have to try this with my “Hello” die!! Thanks so much for sharing!

  12. You are right, Teri, this technique looks much less intimidating now. The cards are pretty cool and even I could watercolor this way. I love the die cut sentiment this way, too.

  13. Wow! I think even I can manage to do this, it certainly gives such a great effect and the stamps really finish them off beautifully. Thanks for sharing.

  14. Teri, love the colorful results! I am inspired to try this technique, and the brush stamp is on my wish list! Thank you!

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