The new set, Beautiful You, is perfect for the new watercolor pencils and perfect for practicing prowess with an aquapainter. It’s actually incredible how little skill is needed to achieve a great look.
For this card, I stamped the image and sentiment, both from Beautiful You, in archival basic black onto shimmery white card stock. By the way, if you’re using your stamp-a-ma-jig, clean it up quickly after using the archival inks. With a little extra effort it cleans right up but if you let it really dry, it won’t come off without the stazon cleaner even though it’s not alcohol based. After letting it dry, I took the daffodil delight watercolor pencil and laid down some colour around the image and then blended with the aquapainter. After that had started to dry, I coloured in the rest of the image using pumpkin pie, melon mambo, old olive, calypso coral and then a combo of the first two on her hat.The calypso coral was just a hint to stop her limbs being stark white. Then as the drying permitted (to avoid bleeding the colours together) I blended the rest of the colours, adding more colour afterwards as necessary – specifically extra melon mambo on the folds of the skirt.
The paper was not quite as flat as when I started so I used fast fuse to attach it to the basic black mat to flatten it completely. More fast fuse to attach this to the daffodil delight card base and the card was complete. I love this image and am really happy with the result here – it looks as if she’s bathed in sunshine and just so happy, celebrating the joys of spring. At least, that was my intention!
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See you tomorrow,
Liz