Clean & Simple Watercoloring for PP200

The Paper Players are celebrating their 200th challenge this week, and each member of the design team has selected a past challenge.  We are challenged to pick one.  Well, I don’t like to play by the rules, so I picked TWO of them.  Yesterday I shared a single-layer card for Ann’s Schach’s challenge (see it here).  Today, I’m sharing the card I made for Jaydee’s Clean & Simple Watercoloring challenge.  Here’s my card:

  Here’s the banner for Jaydee’s challenge this week:

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

• Today & Everyday.  This new stamp set has three images that are designed for watercoloring or coloring with Blendabilities – Chinese lanterns, Russian stacking dolls and an Italian scooter.  I just love the sketched images – they are definitely worth a second look if they haven’t it made it to your wish list (they are on page 168 in the catalog).
• Watercoloring.  You’ve likely seen a lot of projects lately with Blendabilities.  Blendabilities are alcohol-based markers, so you want to use a Tuxedo Black Memento Pad for the base image.  With watercoloring, though, you want to use Jet Black Stazon.  To color each of these images, I gathered ink with my AquaPainter and brushed the ink onto each lantern, starting on the left side of each.  I intentionally left a portion of each lantern unpainted to give the appearance of light pushing through.
• A Perfect Frame.  I chose three bright, cheery colors for the lanterns – Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Coastal Cabana.  I bordered the watercolor paper with a thin border of Basic Black.  I created thick borders of Daffodil Delight and Coastal Cabana around the central panel, bordering each with a thin border of Basic Black.  I played around with all three of the bright colors but decided against Pumpkin Pie – the combination of orange and black looked too much like Halloween – definitely not the look I was going for.  🙂

Stamp sets:  Today & Everyday  Papers:  Basic Black, Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Watercolor Paper  Inks:  Jet Black Stazon, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Coastal Cabana  Accessories:  Aqua Painter, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

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