Watercolored Card Sets: MIM #247...

Melissa is the host for this week's Make It Monday #247: Watercolored Card Sets. She shows us how to sponge ink on a design and apply water to give it a watercolor effect. I originally made one card for this but then saw Nichole mentions to make a watercolor card set. So it was back to the drawing board for me.

I pulled out my Year Of Flowers: Violets stamp set again for this challenge. On watercolor paper, I stamped two overlapping violets and leaves created with masking. I started to rub the ink on the violets but wasn't having much luck getting good blending coverage and ended up applying the ink with a waterbrush. 

The violets were done in two ink shades: Lemon Tart/Orange Zest, Aqua Mist/Hawaiian Shores and Berry Sorbet/Pure Poppy with the flower centers in Harvest Gold. The leaves were done in Spring Moss and Simply Chartreuse inks. I rubbed a little bit of ink with a dauber around the images which helped soften them up a bit.

I did a little splattering with Spring Moss ink and added a strip of striped paper at the top. I stamped the sentiment and adhered the panels to a coordinating cardstock card base. I wasn't too happy with the way these looked until I put them all together. Now they look "okay" to me and look much better in person than in the photos. 

Card Details:

• Stamps:  PTI Year Of Flowers: Violets, Think Big Favorites #3 & #5, Birthday Bash Sentiments
• Paper:  PTI Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist, Berry Sorbet, Orange Zest Stripes, Hawaiian Shores Stripes, Spring Moss Stripes; Tim Holtz Watercolor
• Ink:  PTI Lemon Tart, Orange Zest, Harvest Gold, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy, Spring Moss; Versafine Onyx Black
• Other:  Waterbrush
• Size:  4.25" x 5.5"