Simple Watercolour Technique

Posted on 20th March 2016 by Nicole Mullen
Filed under Card Making Ideas, All Papercraft Tutorials, Projects And Cards By Type, Design Team

Hi everyone,

Nicole here today to share a super simple watercolour technique that lets a simple card really make a splash! I used the following card supplies:

• Papermilldirect White Hammered Card
• Papermilldirect Slate Grey Card
• Kuratake Gansai Watercolours
• Feathers cut with a Silhouette cut file
• Water and a wide paint brush
• Watercolour card

I cut 5 feathers and laid them alternating on a panel of watercolour card to get the right placement.

I picked out my colours I wanted to use from my watercolours by testing them on a scrap of card first.

Once happy with my chosen colours I used a wide brush loaded with the watercolour paint to swipe on colour just a bit wider than the feathers on the watercolour card.

Once all the colours were on I let them dry natually. You get a better effect if you let them air dry, using the heat tool to try them changes the look and colour slightly. Once they were fully dry I glued the feathers down on the colours, making sure to alternate the direction they were laying in.

I watered down some of the copper metalic watercolour paint on a acrylic block. I used a rounded paint brush to flick this all over the panel with the feathers.

Once this was fully dry I adhered a happy birthday label sentiment to it and then stuck it to the slat grey panel to matt it but make the colours pop more. I then mounted this onto a white card.

Here is a close up of the copper splatters in the light, to try capture the shimmer from it, in real life it is fabulously shimmery!

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I hope you enjoyed this very simple technique and it inspries you to give your watercolours a go!

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