Welcome to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday Watercolor Card post. Dabbling in watercolor is a fun and sometimes frustrating craft activity. Sometimes the color combinations work out, and sometimes they do not. Today’s card features only one win from a watercolor wash adventure. Let me show you what I created with it.
Watercolor Card
It’s time to take the card making in a different direction today with watercolors. This is another technique I’ve been following on Pinterest but when I give it a go the results are never what I want them to be. Of the 5 pieces of watercolor paper I tried making the other day; this is the only one that was presentable. So of course I had to turn it into another beautiful card.
To begin, I cut several pieces of 140 lb. Canson XL watercolor paper. They were taped down to my green cutting mat with blue painters tape to keep everything straight as they dried. For this piece, I brushed clean water onto the paper. Then, in a diagonal direction, I added a wash of colors consisting of two different blues and two different greens. It then sat for a few hours to air dry completely.
Using StazOn ink in Jet Black, I stamped an image from the Inkadinkado Meadow stamp set onto the watercolor panel. I have once again added a tell-tale sign that this is a handmade card; I messed up the stamped image! LOL No your eyes are not deceiving you, it is indeed blurry!! LOL
To complete the card, I embossed a piece of Pure Luxury card from GinaK with the Cuttlebug Textile Embossing Folder. Then I used a Tonic Studios border punch on a piece of black card. Now I have a cute little “Any Occasion” card to mail.
Thank you for joining me for today’s Flashback Friday Watercolor Card post. With the exception of the messed up stamping, I really love how elegant this card is. The watercolor wash is so pretty along side the embossed background. Looking back on it now, I have a feeling the other watercolor panels that I deemed a reject were probably OK. I’m sure they were tossed in the trash, but I need to learn to keep what I make. There are so many ways I could have used parts of those backgrounds.
I’m curious, when you come across a crafting fail, do you keep them or do you toss them in the trash? If you do keep them, how do you eventually use them; as a whole or parts and pieces? Let me know down in the comments below. Until then, have a wonderful weekend and I will see you in the craft room again soon!
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