Watercolored Ranunculus

Hello!

I recently celebrated a birthday, and after over a decade of not-at-all-subtle prompting, my hubby finally admitted that it was easier to allow me to select my gifts, and gave me a little shopping spree for some craft supplies.  Once the box from Ellen Hutson arrived, I immediately shut myself in the craft room and started playing!  New supplies are always so inspiring!

Today I'm showing one of the new-to-me stamp sets from WPlus9, Beautiful Bouquet - Ranunculus.  I love florals, and adore coloring them - particularly watercoloring, so that is how I chose to add color to this particular image.

I stamped and heat embossed my image in white, onto a piece of watercolor paper.  Then, using a blending water brush, I took color from the Journey Color Splash pencils, and applied it to the image.  If you are struggling to "see" the image on the paper, you can always apply a very soft wash of background color over the whole image first - which allows the white embossing to show up better.  I keep a paper towel to the side of my work area, so I can wipe off the brush, or have a spot to squeeze more water out into the tip, without it dripping onto my project.  How much water is on the brush tip when you apply the color to the paper, will make the color more or less sheer.  You can use far fewer colors than I did, to create the shadows and highlights, however, I like layering colors to create a bit more depth, so I tend to use more colors.

Here are the pencil numbers for the colors I used:

001, 002, 008, 0014, 0016, 0018, 0020, 0021, 0024, 0037, 0038, 0048

Once I finished the water coloring, and the image was dry, I added a sentiment strip of vellum, heat embossed in gold.  I layered the watercolor panel onto a mat created from Whip Cream card stock, and then used foam squares to add that to a Whip Cream card base.  I finished the card off with a scattering of Glossy White Nuvo drops.

I hope you enjoyed this pretty card!  I'll have another project to share with you, using some of my new stamps soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

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