Always Fun Challenges-Watercolor Card

I'm so excited to be sharing my first card as a member of the Always Fun Challenges Blog! When Waleska told me the first challenge would be "watercolor", I kinda panicked! I don't paint and watercolor cards terrify me! In fact, I only own paintbrushes so I can spatter my card backgrounds. But, I remembered a video from the amazing Jennifer McGuire that I watched a while back where she used distress inks to watercolor and thought I could give it a try. 

 In her video, she uses dark papers, like navy blue and craft cardstock to watercolor her images on and I loved the way it turned out. I loved doing this! My paintbrushes are garbage, but it still worked out so well! The colors are so beautiful and you get such cool changes in color with only one ink!

 I used my one and only floral stamp from WPlus9. It's their Beautiful Ranunculus stamp. I had so much fun using this technique that I will definitely be buying more of their floral stamps! I stamped the flowers with my Versa Mark ink pad, then used gold embossing powder. The sentiment is one of my favorites, from a set called Compliments Volume 2 from Ink Road Stamps (they have the BEST sentiments!).

 Here are some behind the scenes pictures of my painting the cards. I don't have a Tonic Studios Glass Mat yet (saving up for that one), so I use a piece of white paper that I've laminated. I use it for projects like this all the time and it works great! Plus, I can replace it for super cheap whenever I want to.