Live in color. A little bit of color always goes a long way and this week has been all about color, watercolors and the fabulous Cosmo Cricket WIP Art Deck by Julie Comstock. Perfect for documenting the WIP…work in progress…we call life!
So let's talk color shall we? The Cosmo Cricket watercolor papers from the WIP Art Deck are fabulous for journaling but they are ALSO fabulous for scrapbooking and card making as well. They are beautiful resist designs on watercolor paper with gold foil accents. It's SO easy to get this on trend look with this product.
By adding color, you can get the mood you want. I've added warm tones as pinks, oranges and yellow always seem happy to me. I've blended them together in this design and using colors that are analogous or side by side on the color wheel make mixing and blending colors so easy. They flow seamlessly one into the other and you don't have to worry about getting muddy colors. Mixing complementary colors or colors opposite on the color wheel result is brown, brown, brown. Lots of mud.
Here's a look at just a few of the WIP Art Deck images. I'm loving all the phrases and images and there's just so much you could do with this art deck. In fact it was really hard to decide what I wanted to work with and have the rest of these sweet images stashed away for more projects. As you can see, there's a resist that you can paint over and it will highlight that area by NOT allowing paint on it. The gold foil is so pretty and shiny and I find these papers of high quality and very easy to work with.
I'm using Prima Watercolors for this project. I love how these sweet watercolors come in a darling little tin that you can also use as a palette. I'm using the Tropical set and the colors are so beautiful...just my style.
When you open up the tin, it has two metal flaps that are perfect for mixing your paints on. The paints come in cute little square cakes of color in white plastic squares.
To use the watercolors, simply remove the pans from the tin and remove the packaging. These are small pans of intense color and while they are tiny, a little goes a long way.
To place the watercolors back into the tin, press into place until you here a click which means that the clip will now keep them from falling out.
To create my project I used Ranger Brushes and mixed my colors will water directly on the tin flaps.
I started off with the violet/pink color and added watercolor paint over the L. You can see how the resist prevents the color from reaching the paper in some areas.
While the first letter was still wet, I then added in oranges and yellow, a color for each letter. The paints blend well into each other by working quickly while it is still wet. Finish off the design by adding in color on the gold dot centers.
The foil and resist really show up well on the angle but what I really wanted to highlight in this image was the thickness of this layer. To make it a nice firm layer, I backed the watercolor paper with Craft-a-Board and then trimmed the edges.
For the background I wanted to emboss some watercolor paper and carry the pigment through to this layer as well. This layer was die-cut first and then embossed with an embossing folder. I've listed a few below in the supply list that would work well for this design and technique. Remember to die cut first so that you don't lose them embossing detail by running through the machine a second time.
Add drops of watercolor pigment over some of the embossed dots to bring the design detail to the background. Once dry, adhere to the card base.
Adhere the main panel to the card front using dimensional foam squares and clip on a gold hinge clip accent. I've also added a few clear sequins with glossy accents to add a little sparkle.
Thanks so much for joining me today in the CLASSroom! I hope you've enjoyed another way to use watercolors and the WIP Art Deck!
Julia
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