More Flowers, yah!

Here is the other watercolouring card that we did at the May Technique Club. I chose this card because I wanted to use multiple stamps from one set. So that must mean that this gorgeous flower is also from the Bloomin' Beautiful set. This set has some great detailed flowers, perfect for watercolouring because you can really work with the details to get beautiful results.

This card is done with the watercolour paper instead of the regular cardstock. This paper is better because you can really layer colours and add water without the paper curling and bending. This is good for an amateur like me because it is harder to mess up.

Like I said before I'm not a creative genius but I like the way this card turned out. I added highlights to the flower with the same Summer Sun that I coloured the center with. In later versions of this card I did figure out how to better shade with just the Real Red. It just takes some practice I think. The green of the leaves and stem is Garden Green and then I added some Chocolate Chip to the stem, see shading can be easy.

To finish off the flower I roughed up the edges of the watercolour paper with scissors and then ran the edge along the Real Read stamp pad to get some colour. This adds nice definition against the Apricot Appeal DSP layer underneath.