Water Color Resist Technique cards

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Today I am playing with water! Well more specifically, I am turning my Stampin' Up! ink pads into water color paint.

I use the Fluid 100 water color paper from Stampin' Up! on this project. I really like this paper. I have several brands of watercolor paper that I like, this is one of my favorites. To start I took the largest sunflower image from the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and embossed it with clear embossing powder. While I could have used white, I felt that the clear would be less harsh when the project was finished.

Once embossed, I added a few drops of reinker to a large clear mount block (the F block and it measures 4 7/8"x 6"0. Then I used a spritz bottle to "wet" my paper. Water coloring is meant to be wet so don't be afraid to get the paper wet before you start. If you are worried about the paper curling, you can use painters tape to hold it down. I used a water painter brush and added color to the wet paper. I allowed the ink to move and pool in the stamped images. After I had colored the flowers I added a wash of Seaside Spray to the background. The final step was to stamp the sunflowers again with Staz On ink. I picked this ink because I wanted the black images to stay on the embossed images giving them the feel of being in front of the other flowers.

To create the card, I cut the panel in half to create two card fronts. I mounted those on Basic Black Cardstock. 

The best part of creating a unique background like this is that no two cards will look the same.  While I placed the watercolor panel onto the card base in the exact same position, the actual stamped images dictated the orientation of the card. Here are the finished cards. 

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Get Ink'd techniques with Welcome Easter Bunnies

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Have you found your way over to the YouTube channel yet? I am slowly adding content there too. This has been something I have wanted to do for a while but allowed fear to stop me. But this Corona- what ever has given me the opportunity to stretch myself and now I have a channel. Jackson is keeping me in check and making sure I have content for you. Speaking of Jackson (proud momma moment coming) he graduates tomorrow night. I can't believe that I no longer have grade school children. Does that officially make me old? LOL

Back to the new video and the technique. I love learning new things and when I saw the beautiful card Connie Collins made using this technique I had to try it. So it's a faux alcohol ink type technique, and you can see it in action over on YouTube. I did want to mention a few things here that I didn't really do on the video (still learning y'all!). Here is the finished card that I made using the bunny I made in the video and the one I colored with Stampin' Blends. You can really seen the color difference.

I took one of my aqua painters and filled it with alcohol (just regular 70% from Walmart- ok probably Target but you get it right?). I didn't really squeeze the alcohol out of the painter. It was there to help keep the painter wet, until I needed to clean the mix of hand sanitizer out of the brush. Then I squeezed. Also I noticed that my ink was separating. What I mean is it had a chromatography happening and the crumb cake color was separating into the colors used to make it. I really like the end result though. The little bunny reminds me of the Velveteen Rabbit story. So my tip would be make your mix as you need it and try not to let it sit. You can see the color separation in this close up. I thought it was the paper but the paper is still super smooth.

Also in the video I used the biggest acrylic block I have. You really don't need anything that big but I wasn't really sure what was going to happen so I figured to get the least used block in my stash. lol.

Here is the video:


I hope that you try this technique out and tell me what you think!

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