For the Try a New Technique challenge today, we were supposed to use doodling with stamping. It reminded me that I wanted to try the wax resist technique with watercolor paints for a while, so I combined the two and used my white crayon to doodle for a background. It started out as just a birthday card background so I doodled some streamers, stars, hearts, and a wavy frame in white crayon on white watercolor paper.
Then I did a wash with watercolors, mainly blue and green. I have had a nice set of Windsor/Newton ones forever but almost never use them. I recently saw some videos with the person using Crayola watercolors and I decided that I might find kids paints less intimidating so I picked some up. They work fine and I had some fun playing! Made some other backgrounds that will show up in other cards later...
Back to this card. After it dried,I stamped the sentiment and then cut the edges with deckle-edged scissors and used foam tape to mount it on a kraft card. I added the blue/green check ribbon but it still needed something. I decided that he watercolored paper looked very under-the-sea and remembered recently getting some dimensional fish stickers--they went great with it! Finishing touch was a button from a Queen & Co assortment that was blue/green with a bubble motif printed on it, which went nicely with the fish/undersea theme. I threaded a piece of turquoise blue and a piece of green floss through the button, knotted it, and stuck the button on with a Zots glue button.
My nephew is crazy for fishing so I think I will put this away for his birthday in June. Great challenge, thanks for getting me to try TWO new things today!
Date: Monday, February 20, 2017 GMT Views: 430
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