With October almost over, it's finally starting to feel a lot more like Fall down in Texas, and I'm looking ahead to Thanksgiving today! I hope this simple watercolor technique will help put you in the Fall spirit, with these pretty die cut gourds and leaves!
Here's how to easily achieve this look (bold products are linked below in the supply section):
1. Press Distress Ink Pads onto Non-Stick Craft Sheet, then spritz with water. Dip watercolor cardstock panel into the ink and let dry (speed up the process with your heat tool, if you'd like):
For best results (and less chance of muddy colors), keep the ink pad colors within the same color family. Here, I used Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, and Ripe Persimmon.
2. Repeat the dipping technique to achieve more depth of color and cool patterns!
3. Next, I added these colors one at a time, in different areas of my panel (to help avoid getting muddy colors) -- Peeled Paint and Fired Brick:
4. Next, I watercolored an additional panel, using these colors: Peeled Paint, Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon:
5. Then the fun part -- die cutting gourds and leaves from the watercolor panels, using the new Essentials by Ellen Gourd-Jus die set:
Here are all of my pretty die cut pieces (plenty left over for another card or two!):
6. To finish my card, I dry embossed a panel of Bazzill Butter Mints cardstock with Taylored Expressions Burlap Embossing Folder, trimmed the panel to 4" x 5.25" and adhered it to a Butter Mints card base.
Next, I arranged some of the watercolor die cut pieces on the card front, using X-Press It Foam Tape to give some variety of depth to the pieces, and added a Bazzill Peanut Fudge hand trimmed banner, gold heat embossed with the beautiful Thankful sentiment from the Essentials by Ellen Thankful stamp set.
Thankful for all of you for visiting us today here in the CLASSroom! ~ Sharon
