Doodling with Debby: Watercoloring with Distress Inks
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Welcome to the latest (and might I add super ADORABLE) edition of Doodling with Debby! Every month Debby Hughes shares a new and fun card design! Be sure to read on, watch the video, and enjoy!
Hi It’s Debby here and I’m delighted to be joining you with this month’s Doodling With Debby feature. Today I have a video using Distress Inks to watercolour the cute Funny Food set. I did wonder about creating a bunch of cards with each having just one of the fun foods. However, I loved how playful the foods all looked together on the stamp sheet and so decided to arrange all the foods on one piece of card.
I laid everything out in the Mini Misti and then as the watercolour card is textured I stamped the images multiple times with Versafine Onyx Black ink to get a good impression. I used a waterproof black marker to fill in any gaps in the stamping and then taped my card down to a piece of board to help prevent it warping as I painted. I used a piece of acetate as a palette, rubbing Distress Ink minis on to the acetate to leave a puddle of colour then adding a little water to get the ink to a paintable consistency but not too much as I wanted the colours to stay strong and vibrant.
I used a variety of different Distress Ink colors, which are listed in the supplies section below. I added the ink around the edges of the food images and then rinsed my brush and used water to blend that out. While the ink was still wet I added more colour to the shadow areas and let the water do the work to soften and blend that out. I dotted around the card colouring different areas so that each area had time to dry which meant it didn’t bleed in to the adjacent area.
With the food characters painted I wanted to give them a nice background to really help the colours pop and so I added Broken China to my acetate palette and painted around the images. I kept it loose and uneven to add interest. The only difficulty was that as Distress Inks are so reactive with water that on occasion when my brush touched an area I’d already painted the colour bled out in to the background slightly. I added some faded jeans to the background to give some variation.
Having dried off the panel with my heat tool I then added splatters of water to the background and lifted some of the colour with a tissue. I did this a couple of times but I think because the background wasn’t highly pigmented that the lighter areas where the colour had been lifted weren’t as obvious. So I resorted to my usual splatter of a solution of Perfect Pearls to give the variation that I was after.
Another of my favourite techniques currently is to add some extra depth and interest to a piece with coloured pencils. Finally I wanted to fill the gaps between the food with a small image. I looked through my stamps and spotted the perfect small heart in the Some Bunny Special set. I added that to an acrylic block and then stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink to fill in any gaps. I pulled my acetate palette back and watercolored the hearts with Barn Door Distress Ink. I added foam adhesive to the back of the panel and mounted it to a side folding white card base.
Thanks for joining me today and I’ll see you for next month’s Doodling With Debby feature.
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Wow – you get some incredibly vibrant colour with those inks
Oh, such a cute card, I love these adorable images. These sentiments make me giggle, especially the sliced bread one! ?
Ooh La La Baby! Denise
This is CUTE! Perfect water colouring with the distress inks.
You got such fabulous vibrant colours with the distress inks! What a cherry card for someone. Love it!
I love these fun stamps!
Great card! :)
Oh my colors are so beautiful and fun fun images with sentiments – TFS
Adorable card, Debby! I love using Distress Inks to watercolor. Your technique with them is SO nice.
Fabulous coloring, great sentiments!
Super adorable!
Thanks for sharing.
This card is just so cute. Thanks for the detailed explanation of how it’s done.
Thanks Debby! It’s always a treat (no pun intended) to watch your watercolor process. This is very cute and beautifully colored!
Such fun stamps and great colors! Thanks for sharing.
What a cute card.
This is a really cute and colorful card. Love this funny food set and can’t wait for the dies to be back in stock.
Lovely coloring, I can’t believe the vibrant colors you got using Distress Inks!!
Oh, these are so cute!
Such fun stamps and great colors! Thanks for sharing.
Fun card! Such cute images and sayings in this stamp set! Thanks for sharing!
I love painting with distres
This is a gorgeous card – love how you’ve coloured the food images with such lovely bright colours!
i feel really peckish right now, i THINK i NEED A PIECE OF PIZZA LOL. great card
how cute to make all those images into one card. i love my distress inks.
These are so stinking cute!!
Cute card–love the combo of watercolor and colored pencil.
Super cute Debby, I love this, such a great idea.
What fun colors!
Debby, I love this card, not just because of the fantastic job you’ve done on it but because it has all of my fav. foods on it! haha I love this, its so fun! A great card!
Very fun and colorful card. Great stamp set.
DebbieC
Super cute card Debby!!
What a fun and colorful card design.
such a cute card design! great video, loved the funny images ♥
Great coloring! Love it!
This is just the cutest set, great coloring job too. I already follow by email.
Would never have thought to use all the images! Just adds more fun! Thanks for sharing!
Such a fun card!!, these images are adorable!!
Oh my word…super duper cute!!
These stamps are absolutely adorable!
Fun card, the colors are so bright!
such fun doddles. . . you always make them fun!
Those foodies are so fun! Fantastic card and love the coloring ♥
Love this stamp set! Your card is a lot of fun!
Just adorable!
Cute card…I love how you used each food with its sentiment…and I like the coloring.
Fun card!
Fun card and fun product. Love it.
So darling. I love how you used all the stamps as a background. I really like to use Distress inks for watercoloring. Never thought to add pencil. Thanks for the inspiration.
What a lovely card! Beautiful coloring as always! This is such a fun stamp set!
Really fun card!