Hi, friends!
Today, I've got two cards for you to enter an exciting challenge going on at Altenew's blog, which is called Pair-A-Flower Watercolor Contest .
I'm a big fan of Altenew's watercolor products because they have beautiful colors and they work very well as watercolor mediums. For today's cards I used both the 36 & 24 pan sets as the colors are slightly different between the two sets.
Now it's time to choose stamp sets. Among the gorgeous floral stamp sets in my stash, I chose Ranunculus this time, which had been sleeping, never used over 5 years. Although this is a layering stamp set, I chose not to use the layers but only outlines to watercolor the petals.
I trimmed Hot press watercolor paper into A2 size, then I stamped the Ranunculus using Distress Ink Tea Dye. I placed the blooms and leaves overlapped using masking for one-layer look.
Once the images were stamped, I colored in them using 24 pan set. In order to give shades to the petals, I referred to the layer-stamped images printed on the stamp package.
After coloring was done, I stamped sentiment on the top and added splatters of black, gold, and white inks.
For my second card, I tried different color palette and for this I used 36 pan set as it has beautiful blue colors in it.
Making process was quite similar with the first one. For stamping sentiment, I tried Versafine Claire Nocturne ink for the first time and I liked how it came out! Very saturated and crisp.
Thank you so much for stopping by!
Have a great day !
MARGE
So beautifully colored!
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