For the watercoloring on these cards, I decided to not use traditional watercolors, and to use the Tim Holtz Distress Inks. They seemed to give me a nice crisp watercolor. The way I made them darker is that I started off with a base coat of the color (Fired Brick, Seedless Preserves, and Peacock Feathers) with a spritz of water, and I covered the paper. Next I watercolored over the top of the base coat, although I didn't spritz as much water into the Distress ink.
For my palette, I used a page protector, with a white cardstock insert so I could see my colors.
I will be showing you the blue plaid, even though I made 3 cards. (These would be an amazing gift to someone!)
I started off by taping my watercolor paper to my board. I used some watercolor paper from Micheals, but you could use Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock as a comparable substitute.
I next painted a watered down peacock feathers ink, from the inkpad.
Next, as I described above, I put a more intense wash of color over the top of the lighter color. This way, I was able to get a more intense color to make it a more intense plaid design.
Next, I smooshed some Black Soot Distress Ink onto my makeshift palette and I sprayed enough water in it until I got a nice transparent black color. I then brushed it on in wide stripes (with a flat brush) at an even distance from each other.
Next, I decided to use perfect pearls powder in Perfect Gold to make the stripes. I just mixed water with a little bit of the powder, and it seemed to stay pretty opaque. I just brushed it on with a small round brush.
To finish the card, I just put it onto a sea glass color card base. I thought it turned out well!
On the inside, I just stamped a Mama Elephant sentiment. I thought it would be a good fit for the card!
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