Weekender with Wanda – No Line Watercoloring with Altenew!
Happy Saturday! It’s the middle of August…which means it’s almost time for one of my favorite things – STAMPTEMBER! Yeah! Just a couple more weeks until we roll out the biggest release of the year here at Simon Says Stamp! I love it – and I’m ready for Autumn! The light is changing in the mornings – have you noticed it too? Today I’m sharing the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda, and I have a cool technique to share with you. I truly do hope that you try this because it is so nice to sit and color/paint and the results are so rewarding. I’m talking about No Line Watercoloring! Today’s post features beautiful stamps from one of our favorite member companies – Altenew. I used the gorgeous “Beautiful You” Stamp set for my card.
Doesn’t it look like I painted this? I actually fooled my husband when I showed it to him! Hee hee. I started with a sheet of watercolor paper and taped it to my hardboard to keep it nice and flat. (See photos and supplies below) No Line Watercoloring is simple! I took my Antique Linen Distress Ink pad and randomly stamped the strawberries, leaves and flowers onto the paper. This ink color is so light that you can barely see it. And, that’s the trick. After stamping in light ink, you color over it with watercolor paints! If you look closely you can barely make out the stamped images.
The pretty sentiment is stamped onto vellum paper because I wanted the color to show through it!
Here is what the center panel looked like when I started. Later, I die cut out my card layer by using the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles Dies.
I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor paints. These are the most beautiful paints! I use mine all the time. The colors are very rich and creamy and they paint like a dream. In this photo you can see that I started with the strawberries and colored them in. I let each color dry before using a new color. This kept the paint colors from running together.
Next I used green watercolor paint and did the leaves and stems.
Here is the whole panel before I cut it out with the Stitched Rectangles Die. One tip for coloring white items – use a soft grey. Strawberry flowers are white with yellow centers and I wanted my project to have those colors too. The grey tricks your eye into seeing this as a white object.
I ended up splattering a bit of brown paint over my finished panel. I always like paint splatters! I wanted a tiny pop of a bright color, so I layered a thin layer of aqua around my center panel before mounting it onto a kraft card base. The finishing touch was a twine bow.
Thank you for spending part of your weekend with me! I hope this technique will inspire you – and hope you try it yourself! See you soon!
Beautiful summer card
Holy smokes—that is fantastic!
strawberries one of my favorite summer fruits to eat and stamp. well done.
stamping sue
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Gorgeous card, Wanda!! I have yet to try no-line watercoloring but will give it a try very soon as I have been inspired by your lovely card w/ the strawberries.
Love that card and those strawberries. Perfect colors!
Sweet card, Wanda, and beautifully watercoloured!
Love the no line look and this is lovely Wanda! Thanks for the inspiration to give it a try!
So sweet and pretty! Love those strawberries!
Wow amazing card and technique…thanks for sharing.
Lovely! I have been using the Heather Telford tutorial for the antiqued looking water colour, which uses Vintage Photo, I like this use of the lighter ink even more! Thanks.
Such a super cute card.
Oh my gosh Wanda, this card is just amazing! The no-line watercoloring technique works perfectly with these beautiful stamped images!
Super SWEET!!
This is such a fun technique and it really does look like you painted those!
Fabulous summery and yummy card! Really lovely idea!
This is really pretty. I love the soft colors. Great images.
I have to try this technique. It will take a little
practice but the effort will be worth it.
Love your piece.
thanks for sharing.
Reminds me I haven’t stamped a single strawberry all summer! Beautiful!
You are another reason to look forward to weekends! Thanks for sharing.
So soft & pretty!! I love strawberries!
You did a wonderful job on the coloring. Love the card.
Lovely strawberries!
Very pretty card. I want to try this technique.
So pretty! Love the no line water coloring!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!!
SUPER sweet..cute and Gorgeous!!!
I love it. I really like the stitched dies and think that it add something to the card. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Great card!
This is really beautiful Wanda. I have yet to try no line water colouring. It looks so pretty!
Beautiful card! The strawberries in my garden didn’t quite grow into this beautiful shape!
Such a sweet card design!!!
BEAUTIFUL Card and No Line Coloring!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
Beautiful!!
This is beautiful! Will have to try this technique!
Oh wow! This card is amazing! I love the strawberries, these little daisies and the soft colours! Absolutely perfect!!!!
Your no line coloring is beautiful, Wanda! And, I, too can’t wait for Stamptember.
This is so beautiful, Wanda!! I need to try this more often! Thanks for the inspiration!
beautiful piece. i really like the way you incorporated the sentiment on a square piece of vellum.
So pretty! Love this look!
What a beautiful result! I must try this. Your card is so pretty Wanda!
So sweet. I like how it looks like you painted it.
This is lovely, Wanda. I really need to give this technique a try!
Beautiful card. Love the watercolor and it does look like it was painted and not stamped. Love it.
I love this technique–in fact, I painted a card yesterday using antique linen for light items and second generation stamping of peeled paint for green and used my water brush to blend/move the color. I have some strawberry stamps but haven’t tried this technique with them–fun idea.
One of my fav watercolour techniques. Cute card with wonderful colouring!
This is gorgeous Wanda! I love the pretty water coloring!
This is so cool, Wanda! I love strawberries!
Clean and fresh ….Fantastic card…I love it !
What a beautiful card. Can’t wait for Stamptember too!
Sweet sweet card:-)
Love it! Beautiful semi-CAS design with gorgeous summer images and colors!