1.26.2021

Winter card camp ~ Watercolor reflection!

 

Hi friends!

My card today is a watercolor card gone very wrong yet right!



I'll explain!

Today is Day #2 of the Stamping Sisters winter mini card camp

and our teacher for today's tutorial is Darlene!

Our 'camp class schedule' is:

Monday, January 25 ~  Barb @ inkingintoretirement
Tuesday, January 26 ~ Darlene (me!) @ Accordingtobijou
Wednesday, January 27 ~ Kelly @ Sandcastlestamper
Thursday January 28 ~ Jeanette @ Creativeplay



She has a beautiful watercolor technique using the popular

Lovely As A Tree by Stampin' Up

and asked us to use that stamp set plus any watercolors.


I'll show you my completed card first 

and then let you know what I discoverd that was good ....

and perhaps not so good! :)



 
I started with using a heavyweight #140 watercolor paper

and my Altenew half pans watercolors.


                                                  

                                                   Oh!

     I also temporarily unmounted the tree stamp I was working with

to get a better fit in my MISTI.





I watercolored a background and then stamped and woah ....

it was an absolute train wreck!

I had a beautiful watercolor background but as soon as I stamped,

they were wonky and didn't line up.

So that did not work for me :/


  I switched gears and stamped first, watercolored second.

Tada!



I stamped the top forest 7 times (my lucky number!) and

I knew I was going to have the bottom half as a reflection

so I purposely stamped it off on a scrap paper

and then stamped it down for the lightest image.

Even though I heat set the image,

once I started watercoloring, the black ink started to react

to the watercolors and started to smear *gasp!*

So the neon greenish-yellowish color?

I didn't paint that!

It was a direct reaction to the ink and the navy blue watercolors

but I absolutely loved the effect ~

it reminded me kinda sorta of the Aurora Borealis.



And that's my card for today!

Thank you, Darlene, for your beautiful tutorial!

I'll be back tomorrow with my class ~ stay tuned!


Thanks so much for stopping by today!




9 comments:

  1. This is the sweetest card. I love the colors of the background and how you did your reflection without acetate. Too Pretty! Thanks for playing with us this week!

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  2. WOW! Your card is gorgeous, Kelly! I love the way those colors turned out. Perfect!

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  3. Oh my!!! Here I was wondering how on earth you made such a beautiful sky with the slight green hues!!! LOL You know, I think I'll try stamping the image first and then water coloring the background. Your card is wonderful! Thanks for trying the technique.

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  4. Your watercolor background looks amazing with your wonderful trees! What a great job you have done with the reflection!!

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  5. It's just beautiful Kelly, lovely winter scene and great reflection technique. Lovely colours too, Kate x

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  6. Such beautiful watercoloured effect with the smeared inks! :) Lovely reflection too!
    Hugs

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  7. What a stunning card Kelly - love the way you took the 'water' right up to the trees, and 'reflected' the whole row! A fabulous result. Love the aura around the trees, looks a wee bit like a hit of sunlight
    Stay safe
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  8. I love this card. You did a great job. I love the colors.

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