CAS Watercolour Garden

Loll is hosting our March CAS Watercolour Challenge: Garden!

  Our beautiful Garden Cards from our DT and wonderfully creative Guest Designer, Nonni (Nonni's Handmade Cards) will hopefully remind you that Spring will soon be here:-)

We also want to welcome our new DT member Marcia (Marcia's Stampin' Pad).  Marcia plays in our challenge often and has inspired us with her beautifully creative CAS Watercolour designs.
So happy to have you as our new DT Member, Marcia.

 We will miss Christine (It's a card days night), who chose to  move over to our new
CAS Christmas Card Challenge,  which starts tomorrow, March 3rd:-)
Thank you Christine for your amazingly creative CAS Watercolour designs!

Here is my Zigs Watercoloured Card using my Aqua Painter!

Close Up...Wink of Stella on all blossoms.

I watercolored a favorite old (2006) wood mount SU set.  I watercolored with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush set and SU Aqua Painter.  It was so easy to add highlights and move the ink around.

I have discovered that the Zig waterbased paints are too dark unless I thin with a paint brush or aqua painter.  They blend well also when adding color on color.

I began by stamping my image onto Fluid 100 Hot Press paper using Versafine Black Pigment Ink and then Heat Embossing.

Then I spent a relaxing hour watercoloring my images,  drying between layers

 until I was happy with the results.

Next I die cut my image with my SU Square Collection Die (ret).

Used a scrap of SU Perfect Plum Core-dination Paper (ret) to cut another square the same size as the main image.  Attached Perfect Plum layer to CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Die card front and placed in MISTI.

Stamped the sentiment from SSS "Bouquet of Thanks" set using Versafine Black and Heat Embossed.

Then popped up main image using fun foam and Done.

Now I am really ready for Spring Gardening:-)

You have until the 24th to play along. We would love to have you join our springtime fun!

More Challenges:

SSS Monday Challenge: In the Garden

SSS Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Supplies:

Stamps: SU Long-Time Friend (ret).  SSS Bouquet of Thanks sentiment.

Paper: SU Thick Whisper White and Perfect Plum Core-dinations CS.  Fluid 100 Hot Press WC paper.

Inks: Versafine Black.  Zig Clean Clolor Real Brush markers.

Accessories: SU Clear EB Powder and Heat Tool.  CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Die.  SU Square Collection die (ret) and Aqua Painter. Fun Foam ($ store)