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INSPIRATION: WATERCOLOUR TECHNIQUES
WATERCOLOUR Techniques
Watercolours are a great way of colouring stamped designs. And, when combined with embossing powders, it's really easy to stay within the lines! Here are some simple techniques on how to use stamps, embossing powders and watercolours together to create beautifully coloured designs.
3. Tip off the excess embossing powder and pour it back into the pot. 2. While the ink is still wet, cover with black embossing powder.
5. Using a water brush pen, squeeze water onto your stamped design within the embossed lines.
7. The paint will spread where the water is. Pick up different colours and drop them in and let them naturally bleed into each other.
9. Continue adding colour until you have filled your whole stamped design. Let the design sit for a while to let the paint sink into the paper and dry thoroughly. 6. When the area you want to paint is flooded with water, load your brush with your chosen colour and drop paint into wet area.
8. The raised, embossed stamp design will act as a barrier, which will stop the paint from spreading onto the rest of the paper.
10. Another way would be to simply pick up the paint with the brush pens and paint straight onto dry, watercolour cardstock. This method gives you a bit more control over where you place your colours.
1. Another technique is using colour resit. Stamp your chosen design onto watercolour cardstock.
5. Fill a water brush pen with water and start to flood the paper with water. You will notice that water will only sit in droplets on top of the embossed design. 2. While the ink is still wet, cover with white or clear embossing powder.
6. Load your brush with your chosen colour and add drops of paint onto the wet paper. Let the paint spread around the paper. The paint will run off the embossed design.
7. Add different colours or shades to your design until all the paper areas of your design are covered. Leave to dry.
9. Cover your whole design with your chosen colours and the paint will resist from sticking to your embossed design. 8. Again, if you want more control of the colour you are painting onto your stamped design then you can paint straight over the embossed design.
10. Once dry, if you find any paint drops have dried on the embossed design, simply wet a paper towel and just gently rub over the embossed design to clean them off.
top tips...
It is s good idea to tape down your cardstock on your work surface. When watercolour cardstock gets wet it can pucker, causing the water to run where it wants!
Have plenty of paper towels to hand. If you flood your paper with too much water, fold up a paper towel into a point and gently touch it onto the water to soak up some of the excess water.
If you make a mistake you can lift the colour off the cardstock with a paper towel. Wet a paper towel and gently rub the area to simply remove some of the colour from that area. The paper will not return to 100% white, but it may just lighten it enough to rectify your mistake.
