May Technique Club/Class

For the May technique I chose to put the focus on watercolouring with the classic inks. This is a great technique because if you have any artistic flair at all you can really get the creativity going. You will notice that I don't have much in the way of artistic flair but I can still pull off a pretty sweet card, if I do say so myself.

I have 2 pictures posted so you can see the differences that you can get in watercolouring just based on how much water you use. The flowers are both coloured with the Elegant Eggplant ink but one is much darker than the other. This allows you to add shadows and shading with only 1 ink pad, so really, anyone can do it!!

The other item to note is that Stampin' Up! has the Aquapainter which is a really great tool for watercolouring and I totally recommend it. But if you don't have one you can just use a good quality paint brush. The ones with the plastic bristles don't work so you really do need a good quality one.

The rest of the supplies for this card are Old Olive, So Saffron ink (for the flower centers) and Chocolate Chip and Really Rust mixed for the flower pot. The paper matches the inks and I used Kiwi Kiss satin ribbon and DSP as well.